More than 30 years ago, in December 1991, the state of the Soviet Union ceased to exist. By that time, the country was in a deep economic crisis, there was no normal choice of products and other necessary goods for sale - many were tired of Soviet reality, and when ...
On October 4, 1957, the Soviet Union launched the first satellite into low-Earth orbit. To President Dwight Eisenhower, this was a clear sign that the United States needed more scientists and engineers to compete with other countries. But there was one problem - the education system...
Since 1943, Soviet intelligence services (following a direct order from Stalin) have been trying to install listening devices in the office of the US Ambassador to the USSR William Harriman, writes the author of the “History and Culture of Eurasia” channel on Yandex.Zen. The wiretap needed a nose bleed, because Stalin wanted...
We often watch Hollywood films and discuss them, but we rarely think about what Americans think about Soviet films, which most of us know almost by heart. The author of the Actor's Path blog on Yandex.Zen showed his American friend Joseph several Soviet comedies ...
The secret identity of the fourth Soviet spy, who, along with three others, stole American secrets of the atomic bomb and handed them over to the USSR, is finally revealed. The American transferred US nuclear secrets to the Soviet Union along with three other spies, writes Fox News. It was alleged that the theft ...
Died Soviet illegal intelligence officer Gohar Vartanyan. Together with her husband, she thwarted the assassination attempt on Stalin, Roosevelt and Churchill. Soviet intelligence agent Gohar Vartanyan died on November 25 at the age of 93, Meduza writes. Gohar Vartanyan was born in 1926 in Armenia. In the 1930s ...
A couple of years ago, actor Tom Hanks on his Instagram page published a photo of the car he bought at that time - a cargo-passenger UAZ-452, popularly nicknamed "Loaf". Hanks is not the only famous American in whose garage there is a product of the Soviet automobile industry. RBC Style found out ...
Russians rate the Soviet government of the late 70s and early 80s higher than the current Russian government, according to a new Levada Center survey. As Current Time notes, the relative majority of respondents gave positive characteristics to the Soviet government during the “stagnation”: 30% called it close to the people,...
Sean Guillory, American historian, researcher at the Center for Russian and East European Studies at the University of Pittsburgh (USA) and host of a podcast about Russia, tells the story of Lovett Fort Whiteman, a communist from the United States who was called by TIME magazine “the reddest of all blacks” - but in Russia about…
Bernie Sanders had to talk about his socialist ideals in response to difficult questions from a Harvard University student whose family fled Soviet Russia. Samantha Frankel-Popell spoke to Sanders about how socialism affected her family's life. She also asked how ...