The Soviet Union collapsed long ago, but people still have habits that unmistakably identify them as being from the “Country of Soviets.” Blogger Maxim Mirovich in Livejournal described in detail habits that are no longer related to the realities of modern life, but continue to be...
Some Hollywood films did not manage to get a good box office in the United States. But in the USSR, these films could become real hits. The inhabitants of the Soviet Union considered such a movie to be a kind of curiosity. Therefore, the cinemas during the screenings of Hollywood films were almost always full. About five ...
In the early 1960s, the Soviet Union sold titanium to the US, believing they needed it for pizza ovens, but instead they used it to build the iconic SR-71 Blackbird Mach 3+ reconnaissance aircraft, according to AviationGeekClub. The SR-71, informally known as the Blackbird, was...
After the collapse of the USSR, many of its former republics retained the Cyrillic script, although some began to switch to the Latin alphabet. There are those who plan to do so, and a full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine only fuels the desire of many of them to abandon the “Russian” letters and…
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 a cold November day in 1952, Royce Williams shot down four Soviet fighters and became a legend that no one had heard of for over 50 years. How they found out about it and what kind of real “Top Gun” it is, CNN told the publication. At the ceremony on January 20…
People's Artist of the USSR, actress Inna Churikova died of cardiac arrest. She was 79 years old. This was announced by the director of the theater "Lenkom Mark Zakharova" Mark Varshaver. More about the unfortunate event told the publication of Radio Liberty. The actress was born on October 5, 1943 in the village of ...
Historian and co-founder of the Democratic Sokyra party Yuri Gudymenko published on Facebook a review of historical facts about serious radiation disasters that occurred during the Soviet era. Six large-scale radioactive contaminations that were hidden by the Soviet government - and this is just what we were able to find out about...
In the 1980s, traditional healers were very popular among the citizens of the USSR. They achieved incredible success, the programs with their participation were watched by whole families. Today it may seem ridiculous, but in those years such personalities as Alan Chumak, Anatoly Kashpirovsky and others were ...
During the darkest days of the Cold War, the US intelligence community was alarmed by a startling discovery: the Soviet Union bombarded the United States Embassy in Moscow with microwaves. Some officials feared that this was an attempt to harm American diplomats and perhaps even confuse their minds.…