Putin is repeating a Soviet-era mistake that tanked the Russian economy, Polish foreign minister says
Poland's foreign minister said Putin used to criticize the Soviet approach that helped bankrupt it, but now he's repeating ...
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The Strangest Aircraft Ever Built The Soviet Union's VVA-14
Hidden in a Moscow air museum, the Soviet VVA-14 is one of the weirdest aircraft ever built! Designed to hover, take off ...
The controversial diary of a Finnish woman lured by the dream of Soviet Russia that turned into a nightmare
A controversial memoir of a Finnish woman who migrated to Stalin’s Soviet Russia in the 1930s and escaped in 1941. Ninety ...
See Lockheed's cutting-edge $50 million stealth ship the US Navy couldn't find a use for
Lockheed's radical Sea Shadow provided valuable insights into adapting stealth technology for the sea. Its influence lives on.
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The Often Misunderstood History of the Soviet Dissidents
In To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause, historian Benjamin Nathans sheds light on how the protest movement reinvented itself ...
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When 39 Soviet Soldiers Took on 250 Afghan Mujahideen...
The Soviet-Afghan War raged for nine years and is considered a major part of the overarching Cold War between the US and its allies, and the Soviet Union. A major faction was the Afghan Mujahideen - ...
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As a new Trump administration begins, I’m looking to this Soviet Jewish dissident for guidance
If you're alarmed as I am by the new president's first actions in office, the Soviet dissident Alexander Esenin-Volpin has ...
World champion Russian skaters on American Airlines jet built a new life as coaches in the US
Evgenia Shishkova and Vadim Naumov won a world championship title together in pairs skating in 1994 and narrowly missed out ...
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Did Soviet Troops Fight in the Vietnam War?
Yes, there were Soviet troops in North Vietnam, and in significantly larger numbers than their Korean War predecessors. Although the Cold War never turned into a “hot war,” i.e., full-blown World War ...
The Sound of Utopia: Musicians in the Time of Stalin – Silencing tactics in the Soviet Union
Nevertheless, The Sound of Utopia infuses a bleak subject with verve, inspiring admiration for musicians so dedicated to ...
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Putin hails Soviet army for ending ‘total evil’ of Auschwitz
State television news has focused coverage on the 81st anniversary of Russia breaking the Siege of Leningrad. Read more at ...