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‘The Soviet Union rejected capitalism — yet, it caused huge carbon pollution’
THE HEAT IS ON: Russia faces a dilemma — while it contributes to global warming through fossil fuels, Siberia is heating up ...
INVENTOR EYE on MSN1d
Unveiling the Truth Behind the Soviet Union's Most Devastating Crash at Uchquduq
The crash of flight 5143, a Tu-154 on July 10, 1985, remains the deadliest air disaster in Soviet history. Carrying 200 ...
The Welshman wrapped in myth who met Hitler and exposed Stalin
Within a year of graduating from Cambridge Jones was walking the corridors of Whitehall, as well as interviewing the likes of Lenin's widow Krupskaya, American architect Frank Lloyd Wright, US ...
Dark Skies on MSN3d
The Soviet Union’s First Vertical Takeoff Jet Revealed
The Yak‑38 Forger was the Soviet Union’s answer to Western carrier‑based jets, a vertical takeoff and landing fighter built ...
The Soviet Union’s secret tsunami
One of the largest earthquakes on record struck far eastern Russia this week. The last time the region was hit by a such a ...
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The West’s Illusions About Gorbachev and the Victory of Liberalism
As the Soviet Union’s final leader, Mikhail Gorbachev dreamed of a “common European home,” but three decades later that tantalizing idea remains out of reach. By Roger Cohen PARIS ...
Inside an abandoned secret nuclear missile base deep in the forests of Lithuania
The USSR-built Plokštinė Missile Base once housed nuclear missiles aimed at Western Europe. Abandoned in the late 1970s, it’s ...
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The Soviet Union's Afterlife | The Nation
On December 8, 1991, heads of three of the Soviet Union’s fifteen republics, led by Boris Yeltsin of Russia, met there to sign documents abolishing the Soviet state.