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The Soviet Union’s Speed Demon – The TU-114’s Legacy Explained
Join us as we look back at the TU-114, the record-breaking Soviet turboprop that once connected Moscow to distant cities like Havana and Tokyo. Originally derived from the TU-95 bomber, this plane ...
On This Day: Soviet Union expels dissident Alexander Solzhenitsyn
In 1974, the Soviet Union expelled dissident writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn. In 1983, a blaze engulfed a crowded movie theater ...
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The Often Misunderstood History of the Soviet Dissidents
To the dissidents of the Soviet Union, that question was so relevant that it became a famous and ironic toast. Supposedly introduced to dissident circles in the early 1970s by Naum Korzhavin ...
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Soviet Union could have survived as Union of Sovereign States — Gorbachev
It took us too long to realize that the Union needed renewal," Gorbachev told TASS on Saturday. He explained that the Soviet authorities’ aim was "to preserve the union and to create a real ...
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Soviet Invasion of Czechoslovakia
Soviets claim Czechs requested occupation MOSCOW, Aug. 21, 1968 (UPI) - Soviet officials, speaking through the news agency Tass, today explained ... called on the Soviet Union and its Communist ...