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An 18 page research paper that examines the past and present of the Russian border guard. The writer details the history of the guard and how they maintained the 'Iron curtain' for the former Soviet Union and then details how the guard has changed with the demise of the USSR. Bibliography lists 15 sources.
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five members of the family, who were shot by Soviet authorities, joined a long list of people who have died trying to escape from life behind the "Iron Curtain."
The term "Iron Curtain" is a Cold War term used to describe the "iron" control that was employed by the Soviet government not only to keep its citizenry from
leaving but also to stop the flow of information into and out of the communist-block countries. The Soviet border guards implemented the policies of the Soviet government. This military force
kept life along the edges of the huge Soviet empire similar to life in a military-occupied zone for close to fifty years. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights of
1948 states that "Everyone has the right to leave any country, including his own, and to return to his country" (Deriabin; Bagley 293). The Soviet government signed this declaration.
Whats more, twenty-five years later, the Soviet Union pledged in Helsinki to "simplify and administer flexibly the procedures for exit and entry" from the USSR (Deriabin; Bagley 293).
Up until its final demise as a political entity, the Soviet Union not only never honored these accords, but that government continued to do all that was possible to
prevent Soviet citizens from leaving the country. To leave the Soviet Union without official permission constituted treason under the Soviet Criminal Code (Deriabin; Bagley 293). However?suddenly--the terror
stopped with the breakup of the Soviet Union. An examination of the history of the Border Troops will reveal the pivotal role that they played in the former Soviet Union
in regards to keeping the citizenry in line and under the thumb of the Soviet government. An examination of the present role of the Russian Border Guard, which encompasses how
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