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Rosalina Kharitonova, now 94, was working in a tank factory bombed by the Nazis in 1942. Her family including younger sister Yulia, now 92, assumed she was dead. The pair met again in Chelyabinsk.Rosalina Kharitonova, now 94, was working in a tank factory which was bombed by the Nazis in 1942.
Throughout the political and economic turmoil of World War II , we look at how the lifestyles of the super- rich changed. For some, that meant allowing their stately homes to be used for the war effort, while for others giving up valuable family heirlooms was a small price to pay for safety. Click through to find out how the rich lived during World War II .
How many percent of Britain were rich people during World War 1? The rich people in ancient rome lived in big houses.If a rich person were to live in the country he/she would most likely live in a villa,which is a big estates. In the center of the house there was a thing called atrium. This was a courtyard.
© Getty images Labour has formally complained to the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards over Boris Johnson's mystery holiday.
It comes after an attempt to explain away who paid the PM's accommodation on the Caribbean island of Mustique raised more questions than it answered.
The Prime Minister told Commons authorities he'd accepted a £15,000 gift from Carphone Warehouse boss David Ross for the New Year getaway on the exclusive island of Mystique.
But there was widespread confusion last night when Mr Ross denied he had paid for Mr Johnson's accommodation.
Mr Ross has since issued a statement claiming he "facilitated" accommodation worth £15,000.
Inside the trial of a Nazi concentration camp guard
The door swings open, and an old man in a wheelchair enters the courtroom. His face is hidden behind a red cardboard folder, which he holds up with a single steady hand. For additional camouflage, he wears a pair of black sunglasses and a dark, wide-brimmed hat. All eyes in the room have turned towards him but he has no desire to return their gaze.
Though the Great Patriotic War ended almost 75 years ago, the war of numbers still goes on, with different historians proposing different ways to measure the number of losses. On the one hand, from time to time occurring versions suggest even bigger losses than the official estimate. Nevertheless, official statistics embrace a larger number of people . While the argument on the evaluation methods can go on forever, one thing is undeniable: during the Great Patriotic War , the USSR lost a great number of people – strong and passionate men and women in their prime – but it saved the world
Since most answers will be from the perspective of a citizen of the Allied Powers, I’ll share more about Southeast Asia During WWII , most Southeast Asian states were occupied by the Japanese. Life was VERY brutal for most races, especially the Chi
© PA And Number 10 claims everything has been registered properly.
But it's still far from clear who bore the cost of the luxury villa.
In a letter to the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards, Shadow Cabinet Office Minister Jon Trickett called for a full investigation into the Prime Minister's register of interests.
And he noted Mr Johnson had previously got into trouble for failure to properly declare interests.
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Born Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson on June 19, 1964, he is the eldest son of Stanley Johnson, a British politician who was the Conservative MEP for Wight & Hampshire East from 1979 to 1984.
Boris was schooled at Eton College, where he won a scholarship, and later at Balliol College, Oxford. While at Oxford, he was friends with David Cameron, who went on to become Britain’s Prime Minister from 2010 to 2016. He was also the president of the Oxford Union – a position previously held by former Prime Minister Edward Heath (1916-2005) and former Conservative leader William Hague.
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During World War Two the government became involved in people ’s lives . The Beveridge Report identified five major social problems which had to be tackled. The Government became much more involved in people 's lives during the war. Far from being resented, most people welcomed this Government intervention and wanted it to go further. The Government was seen to be taking an active interest in providing for the welfare of the British people .
Rationing of food and other goods during World War Two changed the social landscape of Britain for a generation, creating a national culture of ingenuity, austerity and making-do. Photo: Three young children make do with carrots on sticks, a healthier alternative to ice cream which was unavailable during More information about: Rationing in World War Two . Why didn’t Britain have enough? Less than a third of the food available in Britain at the start of the war was produced at home. Enemy ships targeted incoming Allied merchant vessels, preventing vital supplies - including fruit, sugar, cereals
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Johnson started off his career as a journalist. After a brief stint as a management consultant, he worked as a reporter for The Times in 1987, before getting sacked for making up a quote. He then worked as a correspondent for The Daily Telegraph, covering the European Community during 1989-94 before becoming assistant editor in 1994.
Of his time at The Telegraph, Johnson remarked; “Everything I wrote from Brussels was having this amazing, explosive effect on the Tory party, and it really gave me this, I suppose, rather weird sense of power”.
In 1994, he became a political columnist for The Spectator, and later went on to become the editor of the magazine in 1999, a role he continued until 2005.
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In 1997, he was chosen as the Conservative candidate for Clwyd South in the House of Commons. However, he lost to Martyn Jones of the Labour Party. A few years later, Johnson again stood for Parliament and was elected as an MP for the Conservative seat of Henley-on-Thames in 2001, replacing Michael Heseltine. Around this time, Boris appeared in multiple television shows including the BBC’s “Have I Got News For You” (1990- ) from 1998 onwards.
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A collection of short films, interactive articles and timelines covering the major events and people of World War Two , as well as some lesser-known stories from the global conflict. Cities were destroyed by air raids, the atom bomb was dropped on Japan and six million Jews were killed in the Holocaust. Over 50 million soldiers and civilians died. These classroom resources will be useful for teaching secondary students about World War Two .
But living through the Second World War was very scary. You might have to go and fight or endure bombings at home. They produced posters and films as propaganda; information that changed how the public viewed the war and encouraged them to continue with the war effort. Propaganda was also used to tell people what they needed to know to understand the war . That might be by telling people to wear visible clothing during black out or it might be by warning people against things that were bad for the war .
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Despite being embroiled in various scandals at the time, including the publication of an insensitive editorial about the city of Liverspool in The Spectator in 2003 and an alleged affair with a journalist, Johnson was re-elected as a Member of Parliament in 2005.
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Even after he was let go from his position as Shadow Minister for the Arts due to his alleged extramarital dealings, in 2005 he became the Shadow Minister for Higher Education after David Cameron was elected leader of the Conservative Party.
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The year 2008 saw Johnson become the Mayor of London after he was elected over two-time office holder, Ken Livingstone. As such, he stepped down as a Member of Parliament and continued to hold the post of London Mayor until 2016.
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As Mayor, Johnson presided over the 2012 Olympics, which provided a significant boost to the economy. A report by the U.K. Trade and Investment Department suggested that hosting the Olympics led to a £9.9 billion ($12.3 billion) boost in trade and investment.
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During his eight years of tenure, homicide rates in London fell from 22 per million to 12 per million people, according to data from the Office for National Statistics.
He also helped introduced the Routemaster London bus, and implemented a public bicycle hire system in July 2010, which have since been popularly termed “Boris bikes.”
(Pictured) Johnson with Arnold Schwarzenegger (R) in London, England, on March 31, 2011.
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Around this time his popularity increased considerably, with a June 2014 poll placing him 13 popularity points above Cameron.
In August of the same year, he announced that he would run in the upcoming general election.
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A year before his term as Mayor ended in 2016, Johnson won the Uxbridge and South Ruislip seat and thus returned to Parliament in 2015. The election heralded the first clear majority Conservative Party win since the 1990s.
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In early 2016, as Britain was grappling with a polarising debate on whether or not to leave the European Union, Johnson hinted his position as being on the Leave side of the discussion; “If we can't get the reform we need, Britain has a great, great future elsewhere and outside in a different relationship".
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On February 21, 2016, he officially announced that he would campaign for a British exit from the EU. “I will be advocating Vote Leave – or whatever the team is called, I understand there are a lot of them – because I want a better deal for the people of this country, to save them money and to take control. That is really what this is all about", he had said.
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Johnson said that Cameron’s (R) warnings to leave the EU were “scaremongering” and “wildly exaggerated”. He also drew flak for making racially insensitive comments about the then President of the United States, Barack Obama, when the Obama said that he thought Britain should remain in the EU.
Later, he also went on to say that the European Union is using various methods inspired by dictators to create a superstate. “Napoleon, Hitler, various people tried this out, and it ends tragically. The EU is an attempt to do this by different methods” he said, drawing severe criticism and inviting controversy.
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With Britain voting to leave the EU on June 24, 2016, and Cameron announcing his resignation, there were speculations that Johnson could be the next Prime Minister. However, after Michael Gove announced his candidacy, Johnson declared that he would not run. Gove soon dropped out of the race in any case.
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Following Theresa May's appointment as Prime Minister on July 13, 2016, Johnson was recruited as the new Foreign Secretary. This was widely criticized, considering Johnson’s many controversies and remarks about foreign leaders made during the referendum campaign.
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However, in July 2018, he resigned from May’s cabinet because of his disagreement with the way she was handling Brexit negotiations. Later that year, he condemned her publicly by saying the deal she was working on would be “substantially worse” than staying in the EU.
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Following his resignation as Foreign Secretary, he returned to Parliament and resumed his role as a columnist for the Daily Telegraph. The following month, the Advisory Committee on Business Appointments said that this was a breach of the ministerial code, as Johnson would have to wait for three months before taking up a new job after quitting.
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During this stint at the Telegraph, Johnson ran into trouble with Islamophobic comments, which were later written off as him using “provocative” language, but that he was “respectful and tolerant” and entitled to use “satire” to make a point.
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Not one to shy away from potentially controversial statements, he said in March 2019 that millions of police funding was being wasted on child sexual abuse allegations. Even though this was heavily condemned, Johnson remained a favourite among speculators that he would replace Theresa May as Prime Minister.
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On May 16, 2019, he confirmed he was to run for leadership of the Conservative Party. U.S. President Donald Trump at the time seemed to back Johnson by stating he would be an 'excellent' choice for the role.
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On June 12, 2019, Johnson launched his campaign to lead the Tory party and made it clear that he does not want a no-deal Brexit. He stated that after two missed deadlines and three years, Britain must finally leave the EU by the extended deadline of October 31, 2019.
The city where war crimes are being committed and the world is doing nothing to help
A baby cries out for her mother - but she is unable to be by her side. The 34-year-old and her newborn girl are being treated in one of the last functioning hospitals in the Syrian city of Idlib.Seventy hospitals have been bombed out of action, and the location of this hospital is being kept secret for fear it will be targeted next.Doctors have decided it is safer if the mother and baby stay in separate rooms.The child's mum, Warda, is one of thousands of victims of the trauma suffered by countless families in Syria.She has had to move 10 times since the start of the country's war in 2011.
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Johnson was hailed as the front-runner in the race to become the next Prime Minister, according to a poll of party members that was published on June 13, 2019. After several other leadership contenders were voted out of the race, Johnson was competing solely against Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt, with the winner declared in late July of 2019.
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On July 23, it was announced that Johnson had defeated rival Jeremy Hunt to become the leader of the Conservative Party and the next prime minister of the U.K. Of the result, Johnson said it was "an honor and a privilege" to be elected as the new leader. He stated his priorities were "to deliver Brexit and unite the country."
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On Dec. 13, the Conservative Party secured a parliamentary majority of 80 seats by defeating Labour by 365 to 203 seats in the 2019 U.K. general election. Continuing in his position as prime minister, Johnson said; "this election means that getting Brexit done is now the irrefutable, irresistible, unarguable decision of the British people... and we will get Brexit done on time by the 31st of January - no ifs, no buts, no maybes."
(Pictured) Johnson and partner Carrie Symonds arrive at 10 Downing Street after the election results are announced.
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In April 2019 he was forced to apologise after failing to properly declare a property interest in Somerset, saying he had "misinterpreted the rules".
The Committee's report noted that he had broken the rules by declaring interests late on nine different occasions.
The Committee found Mr Johnson had displayed a "pattern of behaviour" and "an over-casual attitude towards obeying the rules of the House".
And they warned: "Should we conclude in future that Mr Johnson has committed any further breaches of the rules on registration, we will regard this as a matter which may call for more serious sanction."
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© Provided by Mirror Mr Trickett wrote: "This case has added significance not only because of Mr Johnson’s pre-eminent public role as Prime Minister, but because in April 2019 he had to apologise to the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards and the Committee on Standards for failing to declare expenses correctly.
"Notably, the Committee asserted that “should we conclude in future that Mr Johnson has committed any further breaches of the rules on registration, we will regard this as a matter which may call for more serious sanction."
UK politicians: Then and now (Photos)
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Boris Johnson (1979, 2019)
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Jeremy Corbyn (1986, 2019)
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Nigel Farage (1999, 2019)
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Nicola Sturgeon (2000, 2019)
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David Cameron (1995, 2019)
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George Osborne (2005, 2019)
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Ruth Davidson (2009, 2019)
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Luciana Berger (2005, 2019)
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Emily Thornberry (2013, 2019)
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John McDonnell (1987, 2019)
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Alistair Darling (1991, 2018)
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Sarah Wollaston (2012, 2019)
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Arlene Foster (2009, 2019)
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Jacob Rees-Mogg (2007, 2019)
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David Miliband (2002, 2019)
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Mary Lou McDonald (2004, 2019)
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Neil Kinnock (1981, 2017)
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William Hague (1977, 2019)
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Kenneth Clarke (1974, 2019)
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Gordon Brown (1995, 2019)
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Caroline Lucas (2008, 2016)
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Stephen Crabb (2011, 2019)
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George Galloway (1987, 2016)
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Diane Abbott (1985, 2019)
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Iain Duncan Smith (1997, 2019)
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Rory Stewart (2010, 2019)
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Harriet Harman (1982, 2018)
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Michael Gove (2004, 2017)
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He added: "Transparency is crucial to ensuring that the public have confidence that elected Members of this House have not been unduly influenced by any donations or gifts that they may receive.
"For this reason, and the above concerns, I therefore request that you to investigate whether the Prime Minister has followed all transparency requirements when registering this donation."
The city where war crimes are being committed and the world is doing nothing to help .
A baby cries out for her mother - but she is unable to be by her side. The 34-year-old and her newborn girl are being treated in one of the last functioning hospitals in the Syrian city of Idlib.Seventy hospitals have been bombed out of action, and the location of this hospital is being kept secret for fear it will be targeted next.Doctors have decided it is safer if the mother and baby stay in separate rooms.The child's mum, Warda, is one of thousands of victims of the trauma suffered by countless families in Syria.She has had to move 10 times since the start of the country's war in 2011.