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  • But this was February 1941, four months before Hitler invaded the Soviet Union, a time in which Stalinist Russia was in a formal aliance with Hitler, Stalin actively supressing anti-nazi activity.

    It was 68 years ago today - lest we forget these bravehearts Alan Smart 2009

  • But this was February 1941, four months before Hitler invaded the Soviet Union, a time in which Stalinist Russia was in a formal aliance with Hitler, Stalin actively supressing anti-nazi activity.

    Archive 2009-02-01 Alan Smart 2009

  • We may be interested in a business aliance with an online and mobile Japanese Coupon company.

    Mobile phone coupon usage in Japan 2009

  • Ego maniacs know no bounderies and have no aliance to anyone or anything but themselves.

    Clinton apologizes for RFK assassination comment 2008

  • Negotiating with Iran: probably unnecessary and futile, unless you postpone the resolution of conflicts with Palestinians and Syria until they form an aliance with Iraq and Iran.

    Matthew Yglesias » Haim Saban 2007

  • "The PAC is not in a habit of jumping into alliance without looking into principles that should govern a political aliance with any party."

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1999

  • "We have no choice but to fight on until the ANC/SACP aliance and its partner, the National Party, are prepared to devolve significant powers to the regions and not just powers which enable the regions to determine their own sport, animal disease or abattoir policies," Mr Buthelezi said.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1994

  • Now, he said, "it is those who never cared for us who say, now that we have defeated them in their racial policies, that want an aliance".

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1993

  • The aliance said a protest march on May 22 to Alberton police station would deliver a memorandum calling for the release of activists from Phola Park, Katlehong and Tokoza who, it claimed, were being detained at Modder Bee and other prisons.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1993

  • We're here, we're isolated; we were all chosen because, among other things, we were quite incapable of forming permanent emotional attachments and capable of any alliances we liked without going unbal~ anced when the attraction died and the aliance came unstuck.

    Cities In Flight Blish, James 1957

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