Their house is located in the center of the block where the show was filmed. According to the owners, he "appears constantly on the screen" on the HBO series. A young couple from Vilnius offered the fans of the series "Chernobyl" an unusual experience - to come to the area of the city where the show was filmed and settle in ...
April 26 is the anniversary of the accident at the Chernobol nuclear power plant, the largest man-made disaster in the history of mankind. At 1 hour 23 minutes on April 26, 1986, an explosion occurred at the fourth power unit of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant during testing of a turbogenerator, which completely destroyed the reactor. Among the most…
Russian showman, comedian and songwriter Semyon Slepakov alarmed the network with a provocative poem, which he wrote on the occasion of Vladimir Lenin’s birthday (April 22). Slepakov openly spoke about the fact that “a hundred years ago everyone hoped for a bright future, shouted “Hurray!” and at the same time they killed each other.”…
The KGB was convinced that the West, wishing to destroy the USSR, uses not only rock music and films, but also books to corrupt the Soviet people. Present Tense publishes an overview of ideologically harmful literature of the late 1970s found in the archives of the Security Service of Ukraine. Referred to in the document as ...
The number of Russians regretting the collapse of the Soviet Union has reached its highest level in more than 10 years. These are the results of a survey conducted by the Levada Center. The results of the study are published on his website. From the survey it follows that the share of those who would like to avoid the collapse of the USSR was...
From the outside, their life was like a fairy tale: the father's belonging to the country's party elite, access to all benefits. The Kremlin children, in fact, personified the future of the Soviet country, because they had to live under communism. Years have passed, the political structure of the country has changed, children ...
Historian Tamara Eidelman, in her book “How Propaganda Works,” which is published by Individuum, describes how the mechanism for disseminating deliberately false information works, and also examines in detail several well-known examples. One of them is the myth of the Colorado potato beetle as a biological weapon...
A declassified document of the Ministry of State Security (MGB) about the Kiev stage of the journey of American writer John Steinbeck across the USSR has been published. The Chekists suspected the future Nobel laureate of "collective farm espionage", writes Present time. The Soviet tour of John Steinbeck and Robert Capa in 1947 is hardly ...
US retailer WalMart will no longer sell Soviet Union T-shirts that politicians from the former Soviet republics in the Baltic region have complained about. On September 18, Latvian MEP Ines Vaidere wrote about this on her Facebook page, RTVI reports. It…
Representatives of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia criticized the American supermarket chain Walmart for selling clothes bearing the symbols of the USSR. The Lithuanian Ambassador to the United States Rolandas Krishiunas addressed the Walmart management with a letter demanding that such clothes be removed from sale, Deutsche Welle reports with reference to AP. ...