In the 1970s, the USSR was on a mission to dominate the world of heavy-lift helicopters, and they succeeded spectacularl ...
Film director Karen Shakhnazarov said he was in favor of America's current leadership as it weakened Moscow's "main adversary." ...
Soviet engineers envisioned a radical high-speed train that could have revolutionized transportation—a concrete monorail ...
Once again the ‘Gloomsday’ Machine is reporting the awful news about the growing nuclear threats, the widening nuclear ...
In the mid-1960s they even started work on converting the Mil Mi-6 — the USSR’s largest and fastest helicopter — to carry paying passengers. Unfortunately this never got past a single ...
Communism left a wide trail of blood which has not stopped. Historians estimate that tens of millions in the Soviet Union lost their lives in the massive democide under Stalin’s dictatorship.
The Colisee de Quebec once hosted a USSR v. NHL all stars game featuring Wayne Gretzky, Ray Bourque and Mario Lemieux.
Boris Spassky, the Soviet chess grandmaster who learned to play as an orphan – eventually becoming the informal face of the ...
Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev (Mar 2, 1931-Aug 30, 2022).
A new golden age of lunar exploration is in full swing, and the Moon is no longer the province of global superpowers alone.
After all, the USSR was an ally at this time. The Soviets installed governments in a group of countries around themselves for protection and exploitation - a number of Eastern European states were ...