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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 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 ...
Raymond J. de Souza: How the Helsinki Accords helped end communism
Fifty years ago, Leonid Brezhnev, general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, achieved a long-desired ...
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 ...
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 ...
Ransomville native releasing new WWII novel 'The Communist's Secret'
Suzanne Parry plans on flying from Portland, Oregon, to Western New York to attend the upcoming Wilson High School Class of 1975 reunion. Few can match her experiences as a former international ...
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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 ...
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On Moscow’s Tverskaya Street, a front-row seat from czars to the ...
The Soviet Union’s first McDonald’s, located across Pushkin Square on Gorky Street, opened on Jan. 31, 1990 — a yellow-arched symbol of Gorbachev’s perestroika economic reforms.