US pilot shot down four Soviet MiGs in thirty minutes – and kept it a secret for fifty years
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Why you wouldn’t want to fly the first Soviet jetliner
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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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What happened to the largest helicopter ever built?
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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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The history of a Cold War mastermind: Gus Weiss, a shrewd intelligence insider, pulled off an audacious tech hack against the Soviets in the last century. Or did he?
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There may never ever be another man as powerful as Stanislav Petrov
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The deadliest disaster in maritime history happened seventy-five years ago this week: Thousands of German citizens and soldiers fleeing the Soviet army died when the “Wilhelm Gustloff” sank
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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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Why you wouldn't want to fly on the Soviet concorde - The TU-144 story
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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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Photos from the 1986 Chernobyl disaster
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During the Cold War, the CIA secretly plucked a Soviet submarine from the ocean floor using a giant claw
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The Death of Stalin
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Thirty-five years ago today, one man saved us from world-ending nuclear war
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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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The spy who licked me: Inside the CIA’s cat espionage fail
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The Zero Meter Diving Team - A story of family, loss, and the Chernobyl disaster
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Three myths most Americans believe (Japanese surrender in WW2, Cold War, nuclear bomb threat)
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