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Soviet 747 Clone EXPOSED
The Cold War was a period of intense competition between superpowers, with each side trying to outdo the other in variou ...
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How the Soviet Yankee-Class Submarine Almost Caused a Second Cuban Missile Crisis
If the Soviet Navy’s base at Cienfuegos, Cuba, had been fully established before the Nixon administration intervened to stop ...
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The Soviet Union’s MiG-21 Jet Fighter Defined an Aircraft Era
Compared to contemporaries like the American F-4 Phantom II, the MiG-21 was less complex and far cheaper to produce—but could ...
Putin’s mad push to revive Soviet Union with Stalin statues & Red Army cosplay – as aide insists USSR ‘NEVER broke up’
THE SOVIET Union was a brutal regime fronted by dangerous, power-hungry madmen who ruled with a vice-like grip. Sound ...
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What NATO Can Learn from the Soviet Delta-Class Submarine
There have been four iterations of the Delta-class submarines, designed to serve as a key element of the Soviet Union’s nuclear deterrence strategy.
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Opinion: A new statue for an old tyrant
Soviet leader Josef Stalin's legacy includes mass purges and executions. Statues of him in Russia came down decades ago, but ...
After escaping the chaos of the Soviet Union, many Russian-Germans are now voting for the far right
Around 3 million ethnic Germans who emigrated from the former Soviet Union live in Germany today. Many have become prosperous ...
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New images of Soviet Venus lander falling to Earth suggest its parachute may be out
The soon-to-reenter Soviet Cosmos 482 Venus probe is getting increased attention by satellite trackers – and new imagery ...
A Soviet spacecraft is set to fall back to Earth in the next week. Nobody knows where it will land.
The Kosmos 482 capsule was built tough for Venus. Its fall to Earth will make a huge fireball and may pose a small risk of hitting people or property.