On this date: Second component to world's first space station launches
The union of Soyuz 4 and 5 in January 1969 was dubbed by the Soviet Union as "The world's first space station" ...
El País in English18h
The last secrets of Kim Philby, the Soviet double agent who betrayed the UK
The British secret service has declassified new documents about the famous spy who ended up fleeing to Moscow, where he died ...
Secret UK files detailing confessions of Cambridge Five spies released
Top secret MI5 files detailing first-hand accounts of confessions of three of Britain's most notorious double agents ...
The Tragic Story Of Laika, The Soviet ‘Canine Cosmonaut’ Who Made Space History In 1957
On November 3rd, 1957, the Soviet Union made history by launching the first living creature into Earth’s orbit: not a human, ...
Foreign Affairs8d
From Incarceration to Repatriation: German Prisoners of War in the Soviet Union
Grunewald significantly enhances understandings of the fate of Germans captured by the Soviet Union during World War II.
The Forward16h
The concert where Paul Robeson was warned not to sing in Yiddish
In 1949, the American Communist activist was invited by the Soviet government to give a huge concert in Moscow.
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What REALLY Brought Down the USSR?
Most people around the world remember Ronald Reagan as the 40th American president, and many people remember his has an actor turned politician and a former governor of California. But many people do ...