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How the U.S. and the Soviet Union Made Unsuccessful Attempts to Collaborate During the Space Race
National Archives and Records Administration The space race between the United States and the Soviet Union stepped up a gear ...
Metal Workers on MSN3h
The Legendary Soviet Aircraft That Conquered the Skies
The Ilyushin Il-62, developed by the Ilyushin Design Bureau in the early 1960s, was the Soviet Union's first long-haul jet ...
The Saturday Paper4m
The Death of Stalin
If tragedy plus time is comedy, then what does comedy become? Insight? Farce? Revelation? It depends on what and who is writing about it. If the anglophone world’s best historian of the Soviet Union ...
Into the Shadows on MSN3d
The Gulags - How the USSR Built an Empire on Slave Labor
Behind the Iron Curtain, millions were imprisoned in Soviet gulags—forced labor camps that fueled Stalin’s rise and kept the ...
The National Interest on MSN2d
Mil Mi-1: The USSR’s First Helicopter Punched Above Its Weight
Developed by the Mil Design Bureau, the Soviet Mil Mi-1 is the first helicopter produced by the Soviet Union. Having first ...
The Kyiv Independent on MSN1d
Ukrainian author Yuri Andrukhovych: Ukraine endured ‘version of Stalinism’ right up until USSR’s collapse
In Soviet times, being a pro-Ukrainian artist was dangerous. The Soviet secret police were particularly brutal in Ukraine, ...
Into the Shadows on MSN4d
How the Soviet Union’s Fall Triggered a Nuclear Crime Wave
When the Soviet Union crumbled, so did control over its nuclear arsenal. With weapons-grade material suddenly vulnerable, a ...
Ronald Reagan’s ‘Tear down this wall’ speech
In 1987 Uunied States President Ronald Reagan spoke at the Berlin Wall. In his speech he called on the leader of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev to "Tear down this wall". The famous words were met ...