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Britain’s secret plans for nuclear apocalypse

Friday 13 March, 1981. The Soviet UnionOfficially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR). A powerful group of communist republics, the biggest being Russia, that existed from 1922 to 1991. has invaded YugoslaviaWhen the map of Europe was redrawn after World War I, Yugoslavia was created as a monarchy. During the Second World War, communists led by Josip Tito eventually triumphed in struggles between different factions. He kept Yugoslavia united under a constitution modelled on the Soviet Union, and ruled as a dictator until 1980. Yugoslavia collapsed in 1992.. Within days, then Labour leader and the Archbishop of Canterbury are arrested at a peace march in Trafalgar Square. After British military bases are bombed, the United Kingdom unleashes 29 nuclear missiles on the Soviet Union.

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