Soviet gymnast Larisa Latynina is filled with a mixed sense of wonder and trepidation when she watches the gravity-defying and often treacherous routines of Simone Biles as the American set out to ...

** When you buy products through the links on our site, we may earn a commission that supports NRA's mission to protect, preserve and defend the Second Amendment. ** Partisan bands had a rag-tag ...

In November 1952, Lieutenant Royce Williams and other US Navy pilots launched from the USS Oriskany expecting to intercept ...

Activists at the National Network on Cuba (NNOC) also helped plan the convoy. The NNOC is a coalition of member organizations that include the Soviet-sympathetic Communist Party USA (CPUSA), ...

Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev said Friday that Washington grew "arrogant and self-confident" after the collapse of the Soviet Union, leading to the expansion of the NATO military alliance. In ...

In 1965, a group of Israeli amateurs shocked the Soviet chess elite, securing a moral victory in the Cold War arena. The ...

A Soviet machine gun team during World War II. After losing as many as 100,000 troops killed and wounded in Ukraine and forcibly drafting 300,000 unwilling men to replace them, the Russian army ...

When he came back to Earth, Gagarin was looked upon as not just a hero, but the very embodiment of the Soviet Union’s power.

A bust of Kunayev in a park named after the former Kazakh SSR leader in Almaty. Credit: Wikimedia Commons / Vmenkov Subscribe for ads-free reading On the same day last week, authorities in Kazakhstan ...

Picture a long table covered end to end in crystal bowls filled with cured fish, pickled foods, and salads with an alarming amount of mayonnaise. There’s vodka and black bread on the table too. A man ...