On October 20, 1961, a Project 629 missile hits the Novaya Zemlya test site. This is the first test launch of a ballistic ...

The video explains why the USSR selected the Czechoslovak Aero L-29 Delfín for pilot training instead of its own jet trainer.

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It was 20 years ago this week that the Soviet Union’s defenders mounted a last-ditch effort to stop the implementation of liberalizing reforms and preserve the USSR. The failure of their “August coup” ...

MOSCOW (AP) — With its brutality, technological accomplishments and rigid ideology, the Soviet Union loomed over the world like an immortal colossus. It led humankind into outer space, exploded the ...

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Joe Rogan slammed young Americans' growing push toward communism during a powerful conversation with Yakov Smirnoff about escaping the Soviet Union.