When I talk about my anthropological fieldwork, many Americans are shocked to learn that “living on a nuclear test site” is ...
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The Shocking Death of the First Man in Space—And the Soviet Cover-Up That Hid the Truth for 45 Years
When he came back to Earth, Gagarin was looked upon as not just a hero, but the very embodiment of the Soviet Union’s power.
For Russia, which aims to regain control over former Soviet territories, capturing Ukraine is critically important, as ...
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Two Italian brothers who intercepted the Soviet Union's darkest secrets
From a homemade bunker outside Turin, two amateur radio enthusiasts stumbled onto transmissions the Soviet Union never wanted ...
This Week in History: From missing monks to Soviet standoffs - Explore how major events between 23 and 29 March were captured on The Independent’s front pages ...
On March 11, 1990, Lithuania became the first Soviet Republic to declare its independence from the Soviet Union. The U.S.S.R. did not accept Lithuania’s independence and imposed an economic blockade ...
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This day in history: Deadly anthrax released from Soviet lab
In the spring of 1979, on April 2, the city of Sverdlovsk (now Ekaterinburg) in the Soviet Union became the site of one of ...
In 1965, a group of Israeli amateurs shocked the Soviet chess elite, securing a moral victory in the Cold War arena. The ...
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How the Soviet Union buried its worst space disaster under a lie for 30 years
In October 1960, a catastrophic launchpad explosion killed over a hundred of the Soviet Union's top rocket engineers, and the ...
Until the fall of the Soviet Union around 1990 you’d be forgiven as a proud Soviet citizen for thinking that the USSR’s technology was on par with the decadent West. After the Iron ...
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