Question: In what town did John Francis "Jack" Hughes play with the team that eventually defeated the Soviet Union?
Context: In October and November 1940, German–Soviet Axis talks occurred concerning the Soviet Union's potential entry as a fourth Axis Power in World War II.  The negotiations, which occurred during the era of the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact, included a two-day Berlin conference between Soviet Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov, Adolf Hitler and German Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop, followed by both countries trading written proposed agreements.  After two days of negotiations from 12 to 14 November 1940, Germany presented the Soviets with a draft written Axis pact agreement defining the world spheres of influence of the four proposed Axis powers (Japan, Germany, Soviet Union, Italy).  Hitler, Ribbentrop and Molotov tried to set German and Soviet spheres of influence; Hitler encouraged Molotov to look south to Iran and eventually India while preserving German access to Finland's resources, and to remove Soviet influence in the Balkans.  Molotov remained firm, seeking to remove German troops from Finland and gain a warm water port in the Balkans.  Soviet foreign policy calculations were predicated by the idea that the war would be a long - term struggle and therefore German claims that Britain would be defeated swiftly were treated with scepticism.  In addition Stalin sought to remain influential in Bulgaria and Yugoslavia.  These factors resulted in Molotov taking a firm line.  According to a Columbia University academical source, on 25 November 1940, the Soviets presented a Stalin-drafted written counterproposal where they would accept the four power pact, but it included Soviet rights to Bulgaria and a world sphere of influence centered on the area around modern Iraq and Iran.  Germany did not respond, leaving the negotiations unresolved.  Regarding the counterproposal, Hitler remarked to his top military chiefs that Stalin "demands more and more", "he's a cold-blooded blackmailer" and that "a German victory has become unbearable for Russia" so that "she must be brought to her knees as soon as possible."  Germany broke the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact in June 1941 by invading the Soviet Union. The Molotov Plan was the system created by the Soviet Union in 1947 in order to provide aid to rebuild the countries in Eastern Europe that were politically and economically aligned to the Soviet Union.  It can be seen to be the USSR's version of the Marshall Plan, which for political reasons the Eastern European countries would not be able to join without leaving the Soviet sphere of influence.  Soviet foreign minister Vyacheslav Molotov rejected the Marshall Plan (1947), proposing the Molotov Plan the Soviet-sponsored economic grouping which was eventually expanded to become the COMECON.  The Molotov plan was symbolic of the Soviet Union's refusal to accept aid from the Marshall Plan, or allow any of their satellite states to do so, because of their belief that the Plan was an attempt to weaken Soviet interest in their satellite states, through the conditions imposed, and by making beneficiary countries economically dependent on the United States. The Soviet Union national junior handball team was the national under–20 Handball team of the Soviet Union.  It was controlled by the Soviet Union Handball Federation, it represented the Soviet Union in international matches. A Byzantine–Hungarian War was fought between Byzantine and Hungarian forces on the Danube between 1127 and 1129.  According to the Byzantine chronicler Niketas Choniates, the citizens of the Byzantine town Braničevo "attacked and plundered the Hungarians who had come to" the Byzantine Empire "to trade, perpetrating the worst crimes against them."  Stephen II of Hungary broke into the empire in the summer.  His troops sacked Belgrade, Braničevo and Niš, and plundered the regions around Serdica (Sofia, Bulgaria) and Philippopolis (Plovdiv, Bulgaria), before returning to Hungary.  In response, Emperor John II marched against Hungary in 1128, where he defeated the royal troops in a battle at Haram, and "captured Frangochorion, the richest land in Hungary" (now in Serbia).  Following his victory over the Hungarians John II launched a punitive raid against the Serbs.  Dangerously for the Byzantines the Serbs had aligned themselves with Hungary.  Many Serbian prisoners were taken, and these were transported to Nicomedia in Asia Minor to serve as military colonists.  This was done partly to cow the Serbs into submission (Serbia was, at least nominally, a Byzantine protectorate), and partly to strengthen the Byzantine frontier in the east against the Turks.  The Serbs were forced to acknowledge Byzantine suzerainty once again.  In Hungary, the defeat at Haram undermined Stephen II's authority and he faced a serious revolt when two counts, named 'Bors' (possibly Boris Kalamanos) and 'Ivan', were declared kings.  Both were eventually defeated, Ivan being beheaded and Bors fleeing to Byzantium.  Stephen was unable to participate in any of the fighting because he was sick, recuperating in his homeland, according to John Kinnamos.  John Kinnamos wrote of a second campaign by Stephen against the Byzantine Empire, when the Hungarian troops, supported by Bohemian reinforcements under the command of Duke Václav of Olomouc, took Braničevo by storm and destroyed its fortress.  The Hungarians had renewed hostilities, possibly in order that King Stephen could be seen to reassert his authority, by attacking the Byzantine frontier fortress of Braničevo, which was immediately rebuilt by John.  Further Byzantine military successes – Choniates mentions several engagements – resulted in a restoration of peace.  Cinnamus describes a Byzantine reverse occurring before peace was established, which suggests that the campaign was not entirely one-sided.  Hungarian records, however, agree with Choniates in indicating that King Stephen was again defeated and was consequently forced to negotiate a peace on Byzantine terms.  Historian Ferenc Makk thinks that Emperor John II Komnenos was forced to retreat and sue for peace and that the treaty was signed in October 1129.  The Byzantines were confirmed in their control of Braničevo, Belgrade, and Zemun and they also recovered the region of Syrmia (called Frangochorion in Choniates), which had been in Hungarian hands since the 1060s.  The Hungarian pretender Álmos died in 1129, removing the major source of friction. The War of Laws (Russian: Война законов , "Voyna zakonov") was the series of conflicts between the central government of the Soviet Union, and the governments of the Russian Federation and other constituent republics during the last years of the USSR (1988-1991), which eventually contributed to the dissolution of the union.  When Soviet premier Mikhail Gorbachev and the Communist Party of the Soviet Union decided to formally release their control of the non-Russian Soviet Socialist Republics, the individual governments began to reassert their own sovereignty and dominance in their respective areas.  This included making their own laws separate from the USSR and refusing to pay taxes to the Moscow government.  This worsened the Soviet Union's economic disintegration, and was a major factor in its 1991 collapse. John Francis "Jack" Hughes (born July 20, 1957 in Somerville, Massachusetts) is a retired American professional ice hockey forward who played 46 games in the National Hockey League for the Colorado Rockies.  He played with the 1980 U.S Olympic team, who would eventually go on to defeat the highly favoured Soviet Union team in the famous "Miracle on Ice" game.  However, he was cut shortly before the beginning of the Olympics, and never got to play with the team as they won the gold medal. John Francis (Jack) Hennessy (1887–1955) was an Australian architect and son of architect John Francis (Jack) Hennessy, senior.  Many of his works are listed on the Queensland Heritage Register. The Soviet Union Olympic football team was the national football team of the Soviet Union from 1959 to 1990.  The team participated in most of the qualification football tournaments for Summer Olympics.  Until 1984, when age restrictions were officially introduced, the Soviet Union fielded its reserves in qualification tournaments, while in the finals the first team participated.  Starting from 1990 in the Soviet Union national under-21 football team participated the Olympic competitions. The "Miracle on Ice" refers to a medal-round game during the men's ice hockey tournament at the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, New York, played between the hosting United States, and the defending gold medalists, the Soviet Union. The Battle of Port Walthall Junction was fought May 6–7, 1864, between Union and Confederate forces during the Bermuda Hundred Campaign of the American Civil War.  Although initially successful, the Confederates were eventually defeated, allowing Union forces to cut a railroad.  The Port Walthall Junction on the Richmond-Petersburg Railroad connected with the spur to Port Walthall.
Answer: Lake Placid, New York