The Appeal

Judge Compares Federal Bureau of Prisons to “Soviet Gulag”

In a ruling earlier this month, U.S. District Judge Roy B. Dalton blasted the federal prison agency for a pattern of medical ...
Found and Explained Official on MSN

The Soviet sea monster built to launch a space shuttle from the ocean

This extraordinary Soviet concept imagined a giant ekranoplan carrying a two stage space vehicle across the sea to an equatorial launch point, then sending it into orbit from international waters.

Soviet-Era Groups Work To Win American Hearts For Another Communist Regime

Activists at the National Network on Cuba (NNOC) also helped plan the convoy. The NNOC is a coalition of member organizations that include the Soviet-sympathetic Communist Party USA (CPUSA), ...

The Shocking Death of the First Man in Space—And the Soviet Cover-Up That Hid the Truth for 45 Years

When he came back to Earth, Gagarin was looked upon as not just a hero, but the very embodiment of the Soviet Union’s power.

Mutual aid and self-sufficiency are key to life near USSR’s contaminated nuclear test zone in Kazakhstan

About a year into my field research in Kazakhstan, I went to the city of Kurchatov, once the secret command center of the ...
American Rifleman

Guns Of The Soviet Partisans In World War II

** When you buy products through the links on our site, we may earn a commission that supports NRA's mission to protect, preserve and defend the Second Amendment. ** Partisan bands had a rag-tag ...
Forbes

The Soviet Army Once Shot Its Own Troops For Retreating. The Russian Army Might Do The Same.

A Soviet machine gun team during World War II. After losing as many as 100,000 troops killed and wounded in Ukraine and forcibly drafting 300,000 unwilling men to replace them, the Russian army ...
Hackaday

Soviet CDs And CD Players Existed, And They Were Strange

Until the fall of the Soviet Union around 1990 you’d be forgiven as a proud Soviet citizen for thinking that the USSR’s technology was on par with the decadent West. After the Iron ...
The Diplomat

Soviet Central Asian Leaders Are Far From Gone

A bust of Kunayev in a park named after the former Kazakh SSR leader in Almaty. Credit: Wikimedia Commons / Vmenkov Subscribe for ads-free reading On the same day last week, authorities in Kazakhstan ...

Fact Check: Probing claim declassified CIA document confirms aliens turned Soviet troops to stone

While the document appeared on the CIA's website, it was merely a translation of a newspaper article based on a fabricated ...
Bloomberg L.P.

Thirty Years Gone, the Soviet Union Is Not Quite Dead

Leonid Bershidsky, formerly Bloomberg Opinion’s Europe columnist, is a member of the Bloomberg News Automation Team. He recently published Russian translations of George Orwell’s “1984” and Franz ...
NBC Olympics

Soviet legend on modern gymnastics routines: 'I'm a little afraid'

Soviet gymnast Larisa Latynina is filled with a mixed sense of wonder and trepidation when she watches the gravity-defying and often treacherous routines of Simone Biles as the American set out to ...