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Discover the Story Behind a Legendary Exposé of the Brutality of the Soviet Union
Published on this day in 1973, "The Gulag Archipelago" drew on Russian writer Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's experiences as a ...
The Tragic Story Of Laika, The Soviet ‘Canine Cosmonaut’ Who Made Space History In 1957
On November 3rd, 1957, the Soviet Union made history by launching the first living creature into Earth’s orbit: not a human, ...
Music Acts Like Pink Floyd and Donna Summer Banned from Soviet Union in the '80s? Here's the Truth
What do the Village People and KISS have in common, apart from elaborate stage costumes? Both acts were allegedly banned from ...
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Brian Howey: The Russian dissident and the Sunday school teacher
Georgi Vins had spent eight years in a Soviet Union labor prison in Yakutsk, Siberia. Days after he and four other dissidents ...
Trump’s threats to seize the Panama Canal and Greenland sound like Putin on Ukraine
Many assume this Trump tough talk is his signature bluster, which he uses to threaten allies to do what he wants. When he ...
Putin Gets a Snub in the Vast Wine Cellars of a Former Soviet Republic
The Russian president celebrated his 50th birthday at a winery in Moldova. After the invasion of Ukraine, it moved the ...
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Our Comrades in Havana: Cuba, the Soviet Union, and Eastern Europe, 1959-1991 (Review)
Yordanov’s new book fills a gap in the historiography of the Cuban Revolution by centering Cuba’s post-revolutionary ...