Showing posts with label soviet union. Show all posts
Showing posts with label soviet union. Show all posts
Wednesday, August 18, 2021

Russia Marks August 1991 Attempted Coup By

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Tanks on Moscow's Manezhnaya Square on the day the August Coup started in 1991. Andrei Soloviev / TASS    Moscow Times: ‘It Was All for ...
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Monday, December 23, 2019

Soviet Veterans Still Grapple With The Soviet-Afghan War

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Georgy Nadezhdin / TASS archive. AFP: 40 years on, veterans still grapple with Soviet-Afghan war At his home in the mountains north ...
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Monday, November 11, 2019

Former Soviet Leader Gorbachev Blames Those Who Tried To Organized A Coup In August 1991 For The Break-Up Of The Soviet Union

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© Sputnik / Юрий Абрамочкин Sputnik: Former Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev Reveals Who Was Responsible for Country's Collapse Go...
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Tuesday, February 12, 2019

30 Years Ago The Soviet Union Withdrew From Afghanistan

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A convoy of Soviet armoured vehicles crossing a bridge at the Soviet-Afghan border, May 21, 1988, during the withdrawal of the Red Army f...
Saturday, June 9, 2018

Secret Order Issued In Russia To Destroy All Data Pertaining To Gulag Prisoners

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Newser: Secret Russian Order Could Be 'Catastrophic' for Historians A museum studying Soviet prison camps uncovers 2014 direct...
Sunday, January 21, 2018

A Look At Pepsi's Long History With The Soviet Union

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Anne Ewbank, Atlas Obscura : When the Soviet Union Paid Pepsi in Warships The company had a long, strange relationship with the U.S.S....
Monday, October 30, 2017

Russian President Putin Unveils A Monument In Moscow To Stalin's Victims

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Russian President Vladimir Putin (left) and Patriarch Kirill attend a ceremony to unveil the country's first national memorial to vic...
Monday, October 16, 2017

The Soviet Military Mapped The Entire World During The Cold War

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The Pentagon is visible at bottom left in this detail from a Soviet map of Washington, DC. printed in 1975. Images from The Red Atlas: Ho...
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Tuesday, August 8, 2017

Could The Soviet Union Have Been Saved?

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Samuel Bendett, National Interest: Could the Soviet Union Have Survived into the 21st Century? The “what if” discussions about the end...
Saturday, June 17, 2017

Soviet Military Dream Weapons—It Never Built

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Robert Farley, National Interest: Battleships, Aircraft Carriers and Super Tanks: Russia’s Military Dream Weapons—It Never Built The So...
Friday, January 13, 2017

Why Islamic Terrorists Don’t Kidnap Russians

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WNU Editor : From the L.A. Times 30 years ago .... KGB Reportedly Gave Arab Terrorists a Taste of Brutality to Free Diplomats (L.A. Time...
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Friday, December 30, 2016

Russia Starts To Open Up On Its Bolshevik Past And How Their Brutal Rule Resulted In Famine And The Death Of Millions

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The suffering of the Russian people did not end with Wold War I, the Bolshecik Revolution, and the Civil War. The destruction and devasta...
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Sunday, December 25, 2016

Remembering The Fall Of The Soviet Union 25 Years Ago

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WNU Editor : 25 years .... wow .... how time flies. When I think of  how life was in the Soviet Union .... and now .... what life is like...
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Saturday, September 24, 2016

Russian President Putin: The USSR Could Have Been Reformed

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Russian President Vladimir Putin © Michael Klimentyev / Reuters RT : Putin: USSR could have been reformed, there was no need to destro...
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Friday, August 19, 2016

The Soviet Union Started To Collapse 25 Years Ago

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RT: 25 years on: Failed coup that ended the Soviet Union (PART 1) The junta that tried to seize power in the Soviet Union on August 18...
Sunday, March 13, 2016

Remembering The Collapse Of The Soviet Union (Photo Gallery)

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Hard times: Eighteen-year-old prostitute Katya scours the street for work as a police car drives past in Moscow in 1991 shortly before th...
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Friday, October 30, 2015

Remembering The Millions Who Died Under Soviet Rrepression

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A woman holds a candle near the monument Solovetsky Stone on the eve of the remembrance day for the victims of political repression in ce...
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Sunday, February 9, 2014

Map Depicting The USSR Gulag Camps From 1923 To 1961

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Map depicting the USSR Gulag camps, which existed between 1923 and 1961 pic.twitter.com/ATfdkRTGqK — Tom T. (@VRWCTexan) February 8, 2014 ...
Friday, August 10, 2012

Soviet Top Secret Weapons

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