In 1974, Soviet engineers designed a fully operational lunar base, complete with nuclear power, rovers, and buried habitation modules, only for the Kremlin to quietly kill the entire program. The ...
Americans do not know enough about the Cold War, and much of what they think they know is wrong. After the fall of the Soviet ...
(Reuters) -Mikhail Gorbachev, who ended the Cold War without bloodshed but failed to prevent the collapse of the Soviet Union, died on Tuesday at the age of 91, hospital officials in Moscow said.
In the winter of 1919, the settlement of Anadyr, just below the Arctic circle, was a cluster of cabins: storehouses of fox, bear, and wolverine pelts; the offices of a few fur companies; and the ...
A Soviet machine gun team during World War II. After losing as many as 100,000 troops killed and wounded in Ukraine and forcibly drafting 300,000 unwilling men to replace them, the Russian army ...
In December 1982, the carrier cruiser Minsk prepared to launch two Yak-38 Forgers, the Soviet Union’s first vertical-takeoff ...
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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Thirty years ago, the flag of the Soviet Union was taken down from the Kremlin for the last time. The Union of Soviet Socialist ...
One day in 1985, an eighteen-year-old named Riho Terras turned up at the Soviet armed forces’ large conscript assessment facility in Tallinn, some two hours from his hometown of Kohtla-Järve in ...
Mikhail Gorbachev’s goal, according to his associates, was “socialism with a human face.” The belief that communism was reformable was what led him to risk introducing fundamental change. Soviet ...
Picture a long table covered end to end in crystal bowls filled with cured fish, pickled foods, and salads with an alarming amount of mayonnaise. There’s vodka and black bread on the table too. A man ...
Mikhail Gorbachev, the last leader of the Soviet Union, died in Moscow, on Tuesday, at the age of ninety-one. In the last two decades of his life, he rarely granted interviews. So, in 2010, when he ...