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The original picture discs that could get you thrown in a Soviet jail
Back in the USSR of the 1950s and 60s, hipsters, desperate for decadent rock ’n’ roll, cut illegal records using X-ray film.
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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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Russia Once Built a Militarized Space Station. Will It Try Again?
The most striking feature of the Almaz station was the 23mm Nudelman-Rikhter (NR-23) cannon, a modified aircraft gun adapted ...
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 ...
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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 ...
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 ...
Soviet Spacecraft Set To Crash Into Earth in May
Kosmos 482 —originally launched on March 31, 1972, as part of the Soviet Union's ambitious Venera program to explore Venus—is expected to make a crash landing on Earth around May 9–10, 2025. Due to a ...