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 ...
Armenian Government Approves Bill to Launch EU Accession Bid
(Reuters) - Armenia's government on Thursday gave approval to a bill that calls for the country, once part of the Soviet ...
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A key Putin aide says Russia should return to the Soviet Union model for sports after being frozen out by the rest of the world
In the Soviet Union, sports were tightly controlled by the government and were used as a form of nationalist propaganda. Many supposedly amateur athletes in the Soviet Union were in fact state ...
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In October 1962, the world was on the brink of nuclear war: the USA confronted the Soviet Union when the Soviets ... Lynch as Hollywood Mourns a Film Icon: ‘The World Is Going to Miss Such ...
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Eduard Kuznetsov, Soviet dissident whose death sentence exposed the plight of Jews under communism
However his case, which made headlines around the world, drew international attention to Soviet human rights abuses ... samizdat magazines and joined the Union for Intellectual Freedom, a ...
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When The United States Broke Into 2 Countries, Had 2 Presidents, 2 Flags
At dusk on Christmas day, 1991, the iconic hammer-and-sickle flag of the erstwhile Soviet Union lowered for the last time over the Kremlin in Moscow. USSR had dissolved into Russia and fourteen ...
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The Collapse of the Soviet Union
The destruction of the Soviet Union was a political blow against the international working class that produced considerable disorientation and confusion. Against the triumphalism of the ...