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The Apollo-Soyuz Test Project brought Soviet cosmonauts and NASA astronauts together in the first international human ...
Was the T-35 the worst tank of World War II? The Soviet Union designed this massive "Land Battleship" to dominate the battlefield, but it turned out to be more of a burden than a breakthrough. What ...
The nation has lost a great general, one who can be compared to some of the greatest generals in world history. Like Dwight D ...
Space artist Paul Calle thought he had represented the overall mission for the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project (ASTP). NASA disapproved.
A Jewish general in the army of the Soviet Union, General Dragunsky, who arrived here today, refused to comment on the recent arrests and imprisonment of Leningrad and Moscow Jewish leaders ...
From flying tanks to massive sea monsters that skimmed over water, the Soviet Union produced some of the wildest machines the world has ever seen. Built during the Cold War era, these bizarre ...
Its rival Pepsi eventually gained a virtual monopoly in the Soviet Union, which the Soviets maintained — once trading several warships for $3 billion worth of Pepsi — until 1985.
Lieutenant General David Dragunsky, a Jewish Army officer who is one of the most decorated Soviet heroes of World War II, declared here that “vestiges of anti-Semitism still exist in the Soviet ...
Gorbachev was the last leader of the Soviet Union before it dissolved. He ruled as general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1985 until 1991 and was the country's only ...
National Archives and Records Administration The space race between the United States and the Soviet Union stepped up a gear on May 25, 1961, when American President John F. Kennedy announced that his ...
Mikhail Gorbachev, who enabled the Cold War to come to a peaceful end during his astonishing tenure as the leader of the Soviet Union, has died. He was 91 and reportedly died after a long illness ...