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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 52. Chapters: Prisoners and detainees of the Soviet Union, Terrorism in the Soviet Union, Menachem Begin, Mathias Rust, Francis Gary Powers, Alexander Pechersky, Fritz Houtermans, Alisher Usmanov, Leonid Feodorov, Terrorism and the Soviet Union, Janos Esterhazy, Vladimir Nikolayevich Petrov, Jan Cieplak, Josyf Slipyj, S awomir Rawicz, 1977 Moscow bombings, Giwi Margwelaschwili, Heino Lipp, Bidia Dandaron, Nikolai Getman, John H. Noble, Otto Tief, Sayid Abdulloh Nuri, Enn Tarto, Alexander Dolgun, Dymshits-Kuznetsov hijacking affair, Savi Markovi tedimlija, Jaba Ioseliani, Per Anger, Aeroflot Flight 6833, Thomas Sgovio, Otoz Yamada, Stella Kubler, Paul Ariste, Volodymyr Sterniuk, Vasily Shulgin, Greville Wynne, David Devdariani, Vasiliy Bodnarchuk, Valeriy Marchenko, Merab Kostava, Potapy Emelianov, Pietro Leoni, Nicholas Daniloff, Vasyl Kuk, Gerald Brooke, Sato Shunji, Aeroflot Flight 244, Don Askarian, R zeni Massacre, Sergei Soldatov, 101st kilometre, Osvald Harjo. Excerpt: .) (Hebrew:, Polish: , Russian: , 16 August 1913 - 9 March 1992) was a politician, founder of Likud and the sixth Prime Minister of the State of Israel. Before independence, he was the leader of the Zionist militant group Irgun, the Revisionist breakaway from the larger Jewish paramilitary organization Haganah. He proclaimed a revolt, on February 1, 1944, against the British mandatory government, which was opposed by the Jewish Agency. As head of the Irgun, he targeted the British in Palestine, and had a deep-rooted hatred of Britain, which some claim would resurface decades later with his aiding and supply of illegal weapons to Argentina during the Falklands war. Begin was elected to the first Knesset, as head of Herut, the party he founded, and was at first on the political fringe, embodying the opposition to the Mapai-led government and Israeli esta...