The National Interest on MSN3h
Why the Soviet Union’s Yak-3 Fighter Was the Perfect Plane for the MomentThis bird is an enduring symbol of Soviet resistance—and perseverance—during the darkest days of what Russians refer to as ...
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.
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 ...
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 Moscow Times on MSN6d
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 ...
The small Polish army ... 1941 Germany invades the Soviet Union. Three million German troops are supported by Italian, Hungarian, Romanian and Finnish allies. Stalin is taken by surprise and ...
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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