Declassified memo from US codebreaker sheds light on Ethel Rosenberg's Cold War spy case
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Divers find remains of Finnish WWII plane that was shot down by Moscow with a US diplomat aboard
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How the Berlin Wall worked
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Britain’s vast network of abandoned nuclear bunkers | Cold War UK
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Salvage of the century: The lost WWII gold of HMS Edinburgh
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How Finland survived a 1,000,000+ Soviet invasion (1939-1940)
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The insane machine that conquered Antarctica for the USSR - the Kharkovchanka
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President John F. Kennedy's "Peace Speech"
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Soviet flying aircraft carriers were ingenious
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The psychedelic drug that conquered Europe
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Why Oppenheimer deserves his own movie
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Scenes from a fallen empire: Abandoned Russian bases dot Mongolia’s border
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Cold War British RMP video shown to travellers before driving from West Germany to West Berlin through the Soviet East German corridor
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Inside the secret world of Russia's Cold War mapmakers
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The world's greatest fighter jet: The F-15 Eagle
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US pilot shot down four Soviet MiGs in thirty minutes – and kept it a secret for fifty years
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Military operations in East Ukraine (1919-1942)
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9/26 is Petrov Day
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With Stalinist architecture, a prominent bust of Lenin and posters extolling the motherland, Pyramiden is the abandoned Soviet mining town in Norway's Arctic
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The world’s fastest bomber: The XB-70 Valkyrie
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Chernobyl's death toll (or, how I learned to live with Chernobyl's legacy)
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The jet that terrified the West: The MiG-25 Foxbat
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The strangest aircraft ever built: The Soviet Union's VVA-14
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Why measuring the impact of Lend-Lease is so difficult
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How did the USSR react to JFK's assassination?
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Why this enormous plane really exists: The An-225 Mriya
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Animated history: Life in East Germany
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Inside the CIA’s audacious plot to steal a Soviet satellite
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The creation, history, post-WW2 socialist economy and break-up of Yugoslavia explained
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Why does Russia have the best maps of Britain? | Map Men
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The break-up of the Soviet Union, explained
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The Sino-Soviet split: How did Soviet Russia and China become enemies?
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How did the Soviet government work?
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There is a button
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Being Finnish: A Guide For Soviet Spies – An archived booklet reveals how communist spooks were instructed to blend in with Finnish locals
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For eleven years, the Soviet Union had no weekends
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There may never ever be another man as powerful as Stanislav Petrov
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Soviets in Afhghanistan: The invasion that changed everything
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What happened to giant Ekranoplans?
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Finland marks 80th anniversary of brutal conflict with the Soviet Union
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Mikhail Gorbachev's Pizza Hut ad is his most bizarre legacy, and tells the story of his attempt to find—and to fund—a place in a country that wanted nothing more to do with him
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The shoals of Ukraine - Where American illusions and great-power politics collide
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Camp Century – Secret Cold War base shifts through Greenland ice
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Norway reportedly detects radioactive leakage from Soviet submarine ‘Komsomolets’ in Arctic
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The Soviet superplane that rattled America
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In 1989, the Pepsi Company cut a deal with the USSR that left it with a fleet of Russian military ships, making PepsiCo temporarily the sixth-largest Navy in the world
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Kyshtym: The nuclear disaster that was kept secret for thirty years
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The Death of Stalin
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I survived the Warsaw ghetto. Here are the lessons I’d like to pass on
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What does a nuclear bomb explosion feel like?
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