#Soviet

Eighty years ago, after World War II, Winston Churchill declared, “ … an Iron Curtain has descended across the continent….” It was the beginning of the Cold War between the Western democracies and the Soviet communist dictatorships.…

Found this text on the side of an ISU-152 abandoned by Soviet forces during the Hungarian Revolution, what does it say? submitted by /u/LED120 [link] [comments]

Previous accounts of the scientific relationship between communist China and the Soviet Union have depicted it as one of subordination, with the Russians exporting knowledge to the Chinese or scavenging from their bodies of knowledge.…

Oleksandr Dovzhenko was a connoisseur of clouds. In many of his shots, the big sky of Ukraine’s fields and steppe swallows the frame. When tiny human

The Soviet Yakovlev Yak-1 likely lost a dogfight against German ace pilot, Peter Düttmann.

Zond 8 flew a loop around the moon without a crew, but did capture stunning camera views of Earth and the moon together.

Brooklyn, late 2010s. I finally found it. There it is, at the bottom of a dollar bin: Vladimir Nabokov’s first novel, Mashenka. Magenta cover, simple black type. I lift it by the edges, gingerly, a…

Behind the beloved game lies a struggle over mathematical ideas, erased collaborators, offshore millions, and copyright power.

Fox Business Network host Larry Kudlow called New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D) “a pure communist” and likened the democratic socialist mayor to the brutal Soviet Union leader Joseph Stalin.…

Stories of NASA and Apollo have passed into folklore, but the equivalent stories from the other side of the Iron Curtain have often been shrouded in secrecy.

Bundle up for our frigid trek behind the Iron Curtain in this new 'For All Mankind' spinoff

After the fall of Berlin the Soviets concealed their discovery of Hitler’s remains, leaving the Western Allies scrambling for evidence that he was dead.

In his posthumous memoir, Alexei Navalny’s utopian vision of “the Beautiful Russia of the Future” remains strangely detached from history.

The Night Witches were an all-female Soviet bomber regiment that attacked Nazi forces during World War II. An attack technique of the night bombers involved idling the engine near the targ

The shape now flying as Sierra Space's Dream Chaser was first sketched, in 1965, by a Soviet aerospace engineer who would not see anything resembling it reach orbit. The chain from the sketch to the…

RT explores how the Soviet Union repeatedly urged Britain and the US to open a second front before D-Day while bearing the brunt of the war against Nazi Germany

Scuffles broke out in several European cities as Ukrainian nationals and pro-Kiev activists tried to disrupt Victory Day celebrations on May 9

German Chancellor has criticized Robert Fico’s trip to Moscow, arguing that the Victory Day celebrations contradict the EU’s “common view”

Clashes erupted in Barcelona after counter-protesters interfered with Victory Day celebrations marking the defeat of Nazi Germany