Serge Schmemann: A secret cable and a clue to where U.S-Russia relations went wrong
What went awry? Putin is the main culprit for Russia’s return to authoritarianism, aggression and hostility to the West. But ...
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Top-Secret Soviet Black Projects You Have Never Heard Of!
The Soviet Union was home to some of the most ambitious and bizarre aerospace projects in history, many of which never saw the light of day. From the hypersonic DSB-LK bomber, designed to outrun even ...
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 ...
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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 ...
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 ...
National Interest on MSN4d
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.
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'The Russians Worked Fast:' How Ukraine Lost Its Tactical Nuclear Weapons
The former head of Ukraine’s military intelligence recalls how thousands of tactical nuclear weapons were removed from its arsenals by the Russian military.
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What Was Life Like in the USSR?
Here's the standard high school history class summary of the Soviet Union: The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) was ...