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The Fraught U.S.-Soviet Search for Alien Life
During the Cold War, American and Soviet scientists embarked on an unprecedented quest to contact extraterrestrials. But ...
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Back in the USSR: What was life like behind the Iron Curtain
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The US secretly sent communist-friendly Coca-Cola to a Soviet general in a bid to maintain good ties across the Iron Curtain
As World War II ended and the Iron Curtain fell over Eastern Europe, relations deteriorated between the Soviet Union and its Western allies. The Soviet repudiation of the West and of capitalism ...
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Examining Test Gear From Behind The Iron Curtain
We expect they were even more rare in private hands behind the iron curtain, and [Thomas Scherrer] shows us a Soviet X1-7B combination oscilloscope and spectrum analyzer (he thinks, at least ...
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The Soviet takeover of Eastern Europe
Prague, Czechoslovakia, May 9, 1945: A crowd cheering the arrival of Soviet troops in a tank ... in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the continent.
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Gorbachev’s policies made fall of Iron Curtain possible, Germany’s Scholz says
TASS/. The first and only President of the USSR Mikhail Gorbachev was a breve reformer, and his policies made the reunification of Germany and the fall of the Iron Curtain possible, German ...