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When 39 Soviet Soldiers Took on 250 Afghan Mujahideen...
The Soviet-Afghan War raged for nine years and is considered a major part of the overarching Cold War between the US and its allies, and the Soviet Union. A major faction was the Afghan Mujahideen - ...
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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 ...
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Snipers Below Freezing: An Assessment Of Finnish & Soviet Sniping In The Winter War
NRA Membership For Women NRA Online Training Adaptive Shooting ...
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Top-Secret Soviet Black Projects You Have Never Heard Of!
The Soviet Union was home to some of the most ambitious and bizarre aerospace projects in history, many of which never saw the light of day. From the hypersonic DSB-LK bomber, designed to outrun even ...
World champion Russian skaters on American Airlines jet built a new life as coaches in the US
Evgenia Shishkova and Vadim Naumov won a world championship title together in pairs skating in 1994 and narrowly missed out ...
The controversial diary of a Finnish woman lured by the dream of Soviet Russia that turned into a nightmare
A controversial memoir of a Finnish woman who migrated to Stalin’s Soviet Russia in the 1930s and escaped in 1941. Ninety ...
Russia's having problems with its newest ICBM. It drove away critical Ukrainian missile expertise.
Russia used to rely on Ukrainian expertise for its missile programs, but its actions in 2014 and beyond ended that ...
The Sound of Utopia: Musicians in the Time of Stalin – Silencing tactics in the Soviet Union
Nevertheless, The Sound of Utopia infuses a bleak subject with verve, inspiring admiration for musicians so dedicated to ...
DeepSeek Finds US Export Controls at a New ‘Sputnik Moment’
Berkeley Research Group’s Brent Carlson and Hughes Hubbard & Reed’s Michael Huneke examine DeepSeek’s implications for how ...
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Soviet Wired Radio, How It Worked
At the height of the Cold War, those of us on the western side of the wall had plenty of choice over our radio listening, ...