21 stories tagged with #soviet, in publish-time order across the WeSearch catalog. Tag pages update as new stories ingest.
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'In the End I Was Right': How a Harvard Historian Helped Reagan Topple Soviet Communism
In 1949, during Stalin's reign as dictator of the Soviet Union, obituaries in the Communist-controlled newspapers stopped including the ages of those who died, "presumably for fear…
Putin warned former Soviet republic of “Ukrainian scenario” over EU ties. Its pro-EU party wins elections with 49.81% anyway
'What a Cool Pic': Totenkopf-Tattooed Graham Platner Admired 'German Helmets' in WW2 Photo of Nazi-Allied Troops, Deleted Post Shows
Maine's embattled Democratic Senate candidate, Graham Platner, praised a "cool pic" of Nazi-aligned troops aiming a rifle during World War II, zeroing in on their German helmets an…
Onward, Stalinist soldiers
Just before Christmas in 1961, a KGB major named Anatoliy Golitsyn defected to the West after turning up unannounced at the U.S. Embassy in Helsinki. He came bearing secrets, revea…
Psychic Soldiers, Mind Readers, and Dolphin Drones: The Cold War's Weird Paranormal History
How Soviet séances and CIA remote viewers sparked a decades-long arms race no one was supposed to know about…
Stream It Or Skip It: ‘Star City’ on Apple TV, A ‘For All Mankind’ Spin-Off With A Focus On The Soviet Space Program
The Soviet Union-focused Star City is the first series spin-off to join the imagined historical timeline established by For All Mankind.…
‘Star City’ review: Apple TV’s new ‘For All Mankind’ spinoff is a gripping Soviet spy thriller that I’m (mostly) here for
Boldly going back to the beginning of the alt space race, but from behind the Iron Curtain…
Why were there so many instances of Africa in Soviet cartoons?
Soviet Cosmonauts Trained at Star City as They Raced to Beat America to the Moon. Now, a New TV Series Imagines What Happened Behind the Base's Walls
Apple TV's "Star City" takes place in a world where the space race never came to an end. A spinoff of "For All Mankind," the show is told from the Soviet perspective…
Star City brings KGB intrigue to For All Mankind
Star City brings KGB intrigue to For All Mankind…
Stanislav Kurilov
A ‘Soviet’ housing fix from Congress
The Senate’s forced-sale scheme would not make homes cheaper. It would drive out investment, shrink supply, and push prices even higher.…
PMQs Badenoch brands Labour government as ‘like the Soviets won’
The Tory leader likened Britain under Sir Keir Starmer to the Soviet Union as she attacked his foreign and economic policies at PMQs…
'Written in our DNA': Polish pilots who remember Soviet rule prepare for America's most lethal fighter jet
Poland expects its first F-35 fighter jets very soon as U.S. and Polish forces train together at a key NATO air base near the alliance's eastern flank.…
Sci-Hub and Libgen descend from a Soviet tradition of smuggled science
Today's enormous shadow libraries — Sci-Hub, Library Genesis, and the rest — trace back to Soviet samizdat, the underground practice of typing forbidden books onto carbon paper and…
Soviet Radio-86RK/i8080 computer IDE: emulator, assembler, C and PL/M compilers
Memories of a Different Planet: Roentgenizdat
From Wikipedia, photo by Dmitry Rozhkov of display "Rock on bones" in Gallery "Vinzavod", Moscow (2008) My father Vladimir was… The post Memories of a Different Planet: Roentgenizd…
How to read any legacy codebase. The archaeology playbook.
How to read any legacy codebase. The archaeology playbook. Somewhere on a hard drive sits...…
why didn’t the Warsaw pact countries help the Soviet Union in Afghanistan?
China: Our Enemy, Not Our Rival
China is not merely America's geopolitical opponent. It is America's geopolitical enemy and has been since the communist regime's formation.…
Sergey Brin opens up about harrowing Soviet past — says California lost its way
Billionaire Sergey Brin has broken his silence on California’s proposed billionaire tax — invoking his Soviet upbringing.…