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The Often Misunderstood History of the Soviet Dissidents
In To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause, historian Benjamin Nathans sheds light on how the protest movement reinvented itself ...
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, ...
History Today: How the Concorde took to the skies on this day
January 21 is remembered as the day the first commercial Concorde flight took off from London and Paris Airports ...
Meduza6 天
Museum of Moscow reportedly removed section on Soviet repressions from city history ...
The Museum of Moscow removed a planned section on Soviet repressions from its “History of Moscow” exhibition due to external ...
Smithsonian Magazine24 天
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 ...
RBTH12 天
10 Soviet servicemen who were awarded by the U.S.
U.S. awards were awarded to not only major Soviet military leaders and famous ace pilots, but also to ordinary privates, ...
The National Interest22 小时
Fifty Years Later, the SR-71 Blackbird Is Still the Fastest Plane Ever Built
The SR-71 could fly at Mach 3.2 (around 2,100 miles per hour)—lightyears faster than anything the Soviet Union could throw at ...
RBTH20 天
New Year during WWII: How Soviet people celebrated
It was the darkest time in Soviet history. But even during the war with Nazi Germany, Russian people didn’t lose their spirits. We present excerpts from personal diaries of 1941-1945 on how New ...
Lithuania’s day of fortitude that changed the course of history
When you think ‘Tank Man’ the first image that comes to mind is that of the unknown solitary protester at Beijing’s Tiananmen ...