Answer;
-Bering Strait
Explanation;
-The Bering Strait is a waterway that separates Russia from North America. It lies above the Bering Land Bridge (BLB), also called Beringia a submerged landmass that once connected the Siberian mainland with North America.
-To the north the Bering Sea connects with the Arctic Ocean through the Bering Strait, at the narrowest point of which the two continents are about 53 miles (85 kilometres) apart. The boundary between the United States and Russia passes through the sea and the strait.
B maybe? It was an irony and the Enlightenment thinkers were trying to come up with new ideas and the irony was that books containing new ideas were banned.
Empowering the police to monitor citizens at all times
Explanation:
The first police shortly created after the overthrow of the Tsarist regime, would be an instrument to be used in a totalitarian command
The secret police of Stalin NKVD was a force that drew later under Stalin the totalitarian policy most scandalous for carrying out Stalin's Purges.
The secret police was mostly used for securing that Stalin would stay in power indefinitely,
The alleged national security and their aims were far beyond and contributed for cruel work camps, famines and social engineering.
They wanted to create conditions for a new socialist system to born.
Stalin also used the NKVD for eliminating close people to him when he became suspicious.
Periodically he will use systematically "cleaning lists" for setting a quota of people to be killed.