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Russia is reviving Intervision, a Soviet-era song contest once pitched as an alternative to Eurovision. Officials frame it as ...
In January 2017, the CIA released a large number of newly-declassified documents about information collected on the Soviet ...
The Soviet Union’s successful Zond-5 space mission in 1968 prompted NASA to speed up the Apollo program—ultimately driving it ...
While 1991 is often given as the end of the Cold War, the truth is that the Cold War never ended; it just paused before ...
In March 1968, the Soviet Union had a partial success with Zond 4. With this launch, they were able to take the spacecraft ...
Charlie MacVean, a submarine commander revered by the U.S. Navy for the daring spy missions he carried out against the Soviet ...
Mikhail Gorbachev, the last leader of the Soviet Union, has died at age 91, Russian state media reported and his personal press secretary Vladimir Polyakov confirmed to CBS News. His cause of death ...
Mikhail Gorbachev, the last leader of the Soviet Union, died in Moscow, on Tuesday, at the age of ninety-one. In the last two decades of his life, he rarely granted interviews. So, in 2010, when he ...
The legendary 1980 "Miracle on Ice" hockey team moved closer to receiving Congressional Gold Medals on Monday as the House ...