Here's the standard high school history class summary of the Soviet Union: The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) was ...

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Rock music was placed under heavy restrictions in the USSR during the Cold War, but, in 1988, the regime allowed Bon Jovi to ...

No matter how hard Western countries try to rewrite our history, the two greatest events of the last century - the Parade of ...

In one corner of the historical center, a St. Petersburg researcher asks an older woman about Jewish song; she responds by softly singing a melody. When a rail-thin, 85-year-old Jewish man enters ...

WITH ruthless ambition, suspense and even spies, hit movie Conclave lays bare the fight to succeed as a new Pope. The ...

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 ...

The complicity of the USSR in the extermination of Jews by the Nazis and in its concealment. On the role of the USSR not only ...

Visitors look at the painting "The signing of the treaty on the formation of the USSR on Dec. 30, 1922, in the Bolshoi Theater" by Stepan Dudnik at the State Central Museum of Contemporary History ...

The world of champion figure skating is mourning the loss of 14 members of the US Figure Skating team, their coaches and ...

If Ukraine is not given strong security guarantees such as NATO, then Vladimir Putin may return with an army 10 times larger ...

On this date, Jan. 2, 1959, the Soviet Union launched Luna 1. The probe would pass within 3,725.5 miles of the moon but did not hit the natural satellite due to a failure in the launch vehicle ...