In Russia’s arctic wilderness, the remnants of one of the Soviet Union’s most tragic gulag ... forest These are some of the ruins of Josef Stalin’s abortive “Transpolar Mainline” railway.
We walk past a small ... some 40 percent see Stalin favorably. The Putin generation wants intact families and reliable, if unsatisfying, jobs. It associates the Soviet Union with longed-for ...
The Soviet Union detonated its first atomic bomb ... He observed the assembly work and reported back to Soviet leader Joseph Stalin. At 2 am on August 29, 1949 the assembled bomb was wheeled ...
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Soviet Dissident Pavel Litvinov on Freedom of Speech Then and Now: ‘Nothing Is More Important’Pavel Litvinov is a former Soviet dissident and human rights activist who played a key role in protesting state repression in ...
He catches small pox aged seven and is left with ... and by the late 1920s he becomes dictator of the Soviet Union. In the late 1920s Stalin instigates a series of five year plans to turn the ...
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The Soviet Union's First Jet Bomber: The Ilyushin Il-28 ‘Beagle'the Il-28 became the Soviet Union and Warsaw Pact's mainstay tactical bomber during the early years of the Cold War. On May 1st, 1950, by orders of Joseph Stalin, twenty-five Ilyushin Il-28 ...
The Soviet Union stretched across Asia and Europe and ... digital age while keeping Russia at arm’s length. Latvia is a small nation with big aspirations. It spent centuries under foreign ...
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