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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 MSN1d
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 ...
South Carolina Public Radio4h
Who What When: The Cold War
This week on Who What When, we look at the Cold War era with questions about the geopolitical conflict between the United ...
The National Interest on MSN3d
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 MSN3d
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
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 Saturday Paper1d
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 ...