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The Shocking Death of the First Man in Space—And the Soviet Cover-Up That Hid the Truth for 45 Years
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.
On April 3, 1973, the Soviet Union launched a small space station called Salyut 2. This was the second space station ever ...
The Soviet Union stretched across Asia and Europe and ruled more than 15 republics. Unfortunately, the era of centralized control came crashing down in 1991. This resulted in redrawn borders and ...
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Two Italian brothers who intercepted the Soviet Union's darkest secrets
From a homemade bunker outside Turin, two amateur radio enthusiasts stumbled onto transmissions the Soviet Union never wanted ...
On March 11, 1990, Lithuania became the first Soviet Republic to declare its independence from the Soviet Union. The U.S.S.R. did not accept Lithuania’s independence and imposed an economic blockade ...
Soviet space probe Venera 5 or 6 launched in January 1969. This is a still from the film 'The Storming of Venus' released on May 17, 1969. Soviet space probe Venera 5 or 6 launched in January 1969.
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How the Soviet Union buried its worst space disaster under a lie for 30 years
In October 1960, a catastrophic launchpad explosion killed over a hundred of the Soviet Union's top rocket engineers, and the ...
Until the fall of the Soviet Union around 1990 you’d be forgiven as a proud Soviet citizen for thinking that the USSR’s technology was on par with the decadent West. After the Iron ...
In 1965, a group of Israeli amateurs shocked the Soviet chess elite, securing a moral victory in the Cold War arena. The ...
The Yak-9’s wooden airframe design represents a true engineering marvel—considering that this plane was being deployed against some of Hitler’s most advanced military technology on the Eastern Front.
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