During the Cold War, Soviet scientists and coaches developed a demanding and highly effective system of training for their elite special forces, Olympic wrestlers and national athletes. The ...
"My dad was shot down over the Soviet Union," Gary says. "As a kid I thought it was normal, everybody's dad goes through this." In the thick of the Cold War an American spy plane flew over Russian ...
A declassified Cold War-era file from the CIA has gone viral over its coverage of a supposed clash between Soviet soldiers and a UFO, passengers of which reportedly turned the troops to stone before ...
The often misunderstood history of the Soviet dissident movement. In To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause, historian Benjamin Nathans sheds light on how the protest movement reinvented itself at key ...
IN LATE SEPTEMBER workers erected a new structure in Tiananmen Square. It is 18 metres tall, resembling a basket of fruit and flowers. Similar floral-themed displays have sprung up across Beijing in ...
While most Georgians support closer integration with Western Europe, many people in industrial areas that collapsed along with Communism in the 1990s express nostalgia for the old Soviet prosperity.
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The Updater.exe process is a legitimate Google process. Starting with Chrome v123, GoogleUpdate.exe has been renamed to updater.exe and the location has changed. It’s the same program but with a ...
During the Cold War, the Soviet military undertook a secret mapping program that’s only recently come to light in the West. Military cartographers created hundreds of thousands of maps and filled them ...
The Soviet remaking of the Pale Jews. The trials and tribulations of a tumultuous period. Jewish children in the Soviet Union’s youth movement in Minsk. Established in 1791 as the exclusive zone where ...
The Motherland Monument — a 335-foot-tall stainless steel behemoth towering over Ukraine’s capital — was unveiled in 1981 and designed to assert Soviet invincibility. By Cassandra Vinograd and Sarah ...
Andrew is a science-fiction/adventure-horror writer from the UK and a graduate of Falmouth University currently working for both GameRant and DualShockers. At ...
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