Mikhail Gorbachev, the leader who oversaw the withdrawal of Soviet forces from Afghanistan in 1989 after Moscow's failed decade-long campaign there, said on Tuesday that NATO's own deployment to the country had been doomed from the start. The Soviet-backed authorities in Afghanistan survived for three years after the withdrawal by Moscow of its main forces but never recovered from a …
The genius behind early Russian space tech Sovfoto/Getty Images The Soviet Union did not have many of the same technological advances enjoyed by Nasa – but that didn’t stop them leaping ahead of the Americans into space. “The American aircraft industry had transitioned from vacuum tubes to transistors, but the Soviets were still using vacuum tubes in their spacecraft up …
The Soviets used an Indian newspaper in 1983 to spread disinformation that the AIDS virus had been invented by the US military as a “biological weapon to kill black and gay men” and this echoed for decades. “Before we get to the Russian disinformation of the Infocalypse, let’s look at one of the old Soviet campaigns, usually referred to as …
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