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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 ...
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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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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 ...
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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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Why Did the Soviet Union Send Its Worst Tanks to Afghanistan?
The fact that the Soviets were using large numbers of their older tanks did not inherently mean that they were likely to lose ...
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 ...
The Soviet plan to reverse Siberia's rivers with 'peaceful nuclear explosions'
In the 1970s, the USSR used nuclear devices to try to send water from Siberia's rivers flowing south, instead of its natural ...
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 ...
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.