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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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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 ...
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 ...
From moonshots to megawatts: Fusion’s Cold War moment
Competition among the U.S., China, and Europe in fusion technology development is crucial for accelerating progress, ensuring ...
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 ...
As the Soviet Union Fell, Did the K.G.B. Leave a Gift in Brazil for Today’s Spies?
The police expected to find that the Russians had forged the documents or bribed municipal officials to create them and slip ...
When Elvis and Ella were pressed onto X-rays – the subversive legacy of Soviet ‘bone music’
Popular artists “on the bone” included Ella Fitzgerald and Elvis Presley, whose jazz and rock ’n’ roll recordings, to the ears of many Soviet citizens, represented freedom and self-expression.
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The song links the Soviet Union antisemitism to hatred of Israel and Jews now.
The old and funny song from 50 years ago helped to link the former Soviet Union antisemitism to the present day’s hatred of ...