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Trump claims Putin invaded Ukraine to rebuild the Soviet Union, which he said was 'full of love'
Trump speculated about the reasons for Russia's invasion of Ukraine and described the repressive So…
Tom Porter
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Vintage Travel Posters Show A Softer Side Of The Soviet Union
"Through Intourist's posters you really see this country that never existed," curator and director …
Megan Willett
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In the mid-1980s, the Soviet Union had a computer program that helped it decide when to launch a nuclear war
According to the report, the Soviets believed that if VRYAN produced a value of 60 or higher, the S…
Armin Rosen
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The Soviet Union is long gone, but its aircraft carriers live on
While the Soviet Union never did much with its carriers, a few live on as important naval assets fo…
Benjamin Brimelow
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New Mars Photos May Show Russian Lander That Disappeared In 1971
Vitali Egorov from St. Petersburg, Russia, heads the largest Russian Internet community about Curio…
Dina Spector
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Thirty Years Ago, Everyone Thought A Nuclear Satellite Was Going To Fall From Space And Spread Destruction
The final segment of the satellite is believed to have burned up harmlessly into dust-like particle…
Dina Spector
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A key Putin aide says Russia should return to the Soviet Union model for sports after being frozen out by the rest of the world
"All these infringements say that we need to return to the origins of domestic sports — Soviet," sa…
Barnaby Lane
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28 Images Bring You Up Close To A Creepy Abandoned Soviet-Era Circus
Richter is now scouring Eastern Europe for its darkest and least hospitable attractions, and recent…
Lydia Dallett
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The Soviet Union is long gone, but Russia still has Soviet-designed aircraft on the frontline around the world
Russia's modern and growing military includes a few Soviet-era bombers, fighters, and patrol planes…
Benjamin Brimelow
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The Soviet Union Decided To Invade Afghanistan 35 Years Ago Today
On December 10, 1979, Soviet Defense Minister Dmitry Ustinov "gave an oral order to the General Sta…
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This Unofficial Country Never Got The Memo That The Soviet Union Collapsed [PHOTOS]
"Some of my well-meaning trespassing earned me an official warning" Richter, an urban explorer, tol…
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The Soviet Union Used These Posters To Stop Spies In The 1950s
Retronaut collected and translated a series of Soviet posters from the 1950s aimed at preventing in…
Laura Stampler
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Biden says Putin's invasion of Ukraine shows he has 'much larger ambitions' and wants to 're-establish the former Soviet Union'
"If we don't move against him now with these significant sanctions, he will be emboldened," Biden s…
Oma Seddiq,John Haltiwanger
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The Former Georgian President Who Just Died Epitomized The Fall Of The Soviet Union
But Shevardnadze couldn't navigate the world left in the Soviet Union's wake. Ironically, a career …
Armin Rosen
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Vladimir Putin said he drove a taxi for extra cash after the Soviet Union's fall
Putin mourned the collapse of the Soviet Union in a documentary aired Sunday, and said he took the …
Matthew Loh
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Russia's economy is becoming more 'primitive' and war could push it to the same fate as the Soviet Union, says economist targeted by Moscow
"I think we are seriously going to follow the Soviet Union's path from the 1970s to the complete ec…
Phil Rosen
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How the CEO of Pepsi, by bartering battleships and vodka, negotiated Cold War diplomacy and brought his soda to the Soviet Union
With nothing more than charm and a high school diploma, Don Kendall schmoozed his way into the most…
Mark Stenberg
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Trump endorses the 1979 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in freewheeling Cabinet meeting
The Soviet Union collapsed on December 25, 1991, and historians and foreign policy scholars have si…
John Haltiwanger
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Putin is trying to track down overseas properties that the Soviet Union owned and stake claims on them
Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed two decrees relating to his order.