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Robert F. Kennedy met with the CIA after a trip to the Soviet Union, newly declassified files show
The CIA has released 1,500 pages of previously classified documents relating to the assassination of New York Sen. Robert F ...
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T-37A | The Soviet Union's bizarre amphibious tank
With the threat of war looming, the Soviet Union utilized machine-gun armed tractors as reconnaissance vehicles. With ...
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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 ...
Newly declassified files show RFK met with CIA after trip to Soviet Union
The documents released Thursday reveal Kennedy met with the CIA to share his observations following a 1955 trip to the Soviet ...
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Declassified Docs Show Robert F. Kennedy Met With CIA After Soviet Union Trip
The CIA declassified nearly 1,500 pages of documents on Thursday, shedding light on its investigation into the 1968 ...
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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 ...
Here’s What’s Happening in America, in Six (Mostly) Russian Terms
There are more terms we could mention — “prodazhnost,” the sense that everything is corrupt and for sale, and “foreign agents ...
Goodbye Lenin? Russians flock to see Bolshevik leader's tomb before it closes for repairs
Russians are flocking to catch what some fear could be a final glimpse of the embalmed body of Bolshevik leader Vladimir ...
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Soviet Tests
The Soviet Union detonated its first atomic bomb, known in the West as Joe-1, on Aug. 29, 1949, at Semipalatinsk Test Site, in Kazakhstan. The Soviets called their first atomic test "First Lightning." ...