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Russia has removed the image of a dove of peace from the cover of its official high school history textbook, Vladimir ...
Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev speaks during the second day of the extraordinary session of the Supreme Soviet in Moscow, U.S.S.R., on Aug. 27, 1991, days after an attempted coup against him.
Key Points – The Soviet-era MiG-21 “Fishbed,” first introduced in 1955, became the most-produced jet aircraft in aviation ...
There’s an addictive quality to Tetris — so addictive that in the Soviet Union, where it was created in 1984, the government blocked it from state computers because it was ruining productivity.
An Alternate-History Channel on Reddit Is Gaming Out a Shockingly Realistic Second US Civil War. The (fictional) Second Battle of Harper's Ferry, ... What if the Soviet Union won the Cold War?
In his review of “Crucibles of Power,” Prof. Gary Saul Morson speculates that “Hitler might well have won [his war against the Soviet Union] had he abolished collective farms and allowed ...
An article on the history of EPROMs in the Soviet Union by [Vladimir Yakovlev] over at The CPU Shack Museum caught our attention. It is part one of a series on the topic, and walks you through the … ...
The capital city of Berlin, located deep within Soviet-controlled East Germany, was also divided in two: West Berlin and East Berlin. In June 1948, the Soviet Union blockaded West Berlin. The Soviets ...
In this context, the change from Trump to President Joe Biden made little difference. America did not have a Soviet-style one-party state, but nor did it have much inter- or intra-party democracy.
She became “Reagan’s window on the Soviet Union,” the historian James Mann wrote in “The Rebellion of Ronald Reagan” (2009), a study of his role in ending the Cold War.
He then released a post on a messaging app channel, referring to the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union and accusing the U.S. and its allies of trying to engineer Russia’s breakup, a policy he ...
Filer, who owns the planes, teamed up with friend and veteran of the former Soviet Union Dobrin Dobrev, who specializes in MiG-23 engines. “When I moved to the states years ago, Dan called me up ...