The Buran spacecraft was a space shuttle developed by the Soviet Union in response to NASA's space shuttle program. Buran, which means “snowstorm” in Russian, flew one time. NASA's space ...
Within just a few years, the Soviet Union collapsed ... When Konstantin Chernenko became General Secretary of the Communist Party in 1984, he was already 72. He had succeeded a senile Leonid ...
In a bloody bid to consolidate his power and eliminate anyone he considered insufficiently loyal to himself, Joseph Stalin, the leader of the Soviet Union for ... media that General Mark Milley ...
Crimean Tatar leader Mustafa Dzhemilev has praised the Czech Republic after it adopted a resolution recognizing the deportation of Crimean Tatars by Soviet authorities in 1944 as genocide.
Radiation spread across a vast distance as well. Soviet weapons designers strove to surpass the Americans, both in yield and in the propaganda victory that a weapon larger than the one used at ...