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The Soviet Union had the longest borders of any contemporary country, extending approx. 60,000 km (37,000 mi). [1] [2] They measured some 10,000 kilometers (6,213.7 mi) from Kaliningrad on Gdańsk Bay in the west to Ratmanova Island (Big Diomede Island) in the Bering Strait - the rough equivalent of the distance from Edinburgh, Scotland, westwards to Nome, Alaska.
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Initially, England froze the reserves and refused to transfer it to either Lithuanian diplomats or the Soviet Union; [75] however, in 1967, the First Wilson ministry used the reserve in settling mutual claims with the Soviet Union. [76] Despite the difficulties, Balutis continued his duties as the Lithuanian envoy until his death in 1967.
Predictions of the Soviet Union's impending demise were discounted by many Western academic specialists, [7] and had little impact on mainstream Sovietology. [8] For example, Amalrik's book "was welcomed as a piece of brilliant literature in the West" but "virtually no one tended to take it at face value as a piece of political prediction."
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In 1924, she made the illustrations for the first edition of The Box-Car Children by Gertrude Chandler Warner (Rand McNally & Company, Chicago). [46] [note 1] Shown above, Image No. 11 is the illustration "Henry felt himself lifted on many shoulders" from a chapter of this book called "The Race".
In 1942, the Alaska–Canada Military Highway was completed, in part to form an overland supply route to the Soviet Union on the other side of the Bering Strait. Running from Dawson Creek, British Columbia to Delta Junction, Alaska , the road connected the contiguous United States to Alaska across Canada. [ 16 ]