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Trump is doing a ‘reverse Nixon’ and using Russia against China, top adviser tells ‘Pod Force One’
Trump has sought to decrease diplomatic tensions with Russian President Vladimir Putin amid his war with Ukraine, while ...
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Soviet Space Cannons, Bullet Trajectories, and the Physics of Firing Guns Beyond Earth’s Atmosphere
In the vacuum of space, a gunshot is not muffled by the lack of air. It is actually released with all of the explosive might ...
London Evening Standard2y
What was the Soviet Union? USSR and Gorbachev’s role explained, and why it collapsed - Evening Standard
The Soviet Union, or USSR, was a state that was formed after the Russian revolution in 1917, and the subsequent three-year civil war. It was founded on a political system of Marxist socialism ...
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James Lloydovich Patterson, child star of Soviet-era film, dies at 91
Lloyd Patterson, who soon joined the Communist Party, remained in the Soviet Union. As he explained to the Chicago Defender, a Black newspaper, the country gave Black artists “opportunities and ...
People's Defender2dOpinion
Let’s work on an International Diplomatic Solution
In the aftermath of the U.S. government’s military strikes against Iran’s nuclear facilities, it is easy to assume that Iran ...
The Times of Israel8mon
The Blogs: This is not 1930s Germany; it’s the Soviet Union
This was the Soviet Union in the 1960s. While many of my American Jewish friends are bewildered by the eruption of antisemitism masquerading as “anti-Zionism” since October 7, those of us who ...
Popular Science2mon
A dead Soviet space probe from 1972 is falling back to Earth
In 1972, the Soviet Union launched a pair of space probes destined for Venus.While the USSR’s Venera 8 successfully reached its destination, a malfunctioning Soyuz rocket ensured its sibling ...
The Sun1mon
Putin’s mad push to revive Soviet Union with Stalin statues & Red Army cosplay – as aide insists USSR ‘NEVER broke up’ - The Sun
THE SOVIET Union was a brutal regime fronted by dangerous, power-hungry madmen who ruled with a vice-like grip. Sound familiar? Vladimir Putin has never been coy about his Soviet nostalgia – … ...