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Kursk: Ukraine’s front inside Russia was the site of key Soviet World War II victory
3 months, 3 weeks ago

Kursk: Ukraine’s front inside Russia was the site of key Soviet World War II victory

CNN  

CNN — Ukraine’s military incursion into Russian territory in the Kursk region is covering some of the same territory on which the Soviet Union scored one of its most important victories over German invaders in World War II, one that some historians say turned the tide of the war in Europe almost a year before the D-Day invasion of Normandy. …

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Central Asia Comes Out of the Russian Shadow
1 year, 4 months ago

Central Asia Comes Out of the Russian Shadow

The Diplomat  

In Central Asia, speaking the Russian language used to be a sign of education, high culture, and a marker of the upper class. The region’s search for language, historic memory, cultural heritage and – above all – dignity outside of Soviet propaganda started two decades ago, but until recently lived mostly among Central Asian scholars and civil society. Except for …

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How the Soviets stole nuclear secrets and targeted Oppenheimer
1 year, 4 months ago

How the Soviets stole nuclear secrets and targeted Oppenheimer

Firstpost  

Archives made available after the Soviet Union’s collapse now establish beyond doubt that Oppenheimer was not a Soviet agent. In fact, intelligence reports about the Manhattan Project reveal that at key points, Stalin’s spy chiefs were frustrated that their operatives had not recruited him Oppenheimer, the epic new movie directed by Christopher Nolan, takes audiences into the mind and moral …

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He was the CIA whiz kid in ‘Charlie Wilson’s War.’ His new book offers advice for the US in Ukraine
1 year, 5 months ago

He was the CIA whiz kid in ‘Charlie Wilson’s War.’ His new book offers advice for the US in Ukraine

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — After the last Soviet troops left Afghanistan in 1989, defeated by an insurgency equipped and guided by the U.S., a two-word cable arrived at CIA headquarters: “WE WON.” It was one of the last moments of the Cold War, credited with helping push the Soviet Union to collapse two years later. In the 2007 movie “Charlie Wilson’s War,” …

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Jimmy Carter's lasting Cold War legacy: His human rights focus helped dismantle Soviet Union
1 year, 10 months ago

Jimmy Carter's lasting Cold War legacy: His human rights focus helped dismantle Soviet Union

Salon  

This article was originally published on The Conversation. Since then, scholars have debated — and often maligned — Carter's legacy, especially his foreign policy efforts that revolved around human rights. A Soviet strategy The criticism of Carter's foreign policies seems particularly mistaken when it comes to the Cold War, a period defined by decades of hostility, mutual distrust and arms …

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Fallen colossus: USSR’s terror, triumphs began 100 years ago
1 year, 11 months ago

Fallen colossus: USSR’s terror, triumphs began 100 years ago

Associated Press  

MOSCOW — With its brutality, technological accomplishments and rigid ideology, the Soviet Union loomed over the world like an immortal colossus. WWII World War II inflicted colossal suffering on the Soviet Union, but cemented its superpower status and swelled citizens’ hearts with the conviction that theirs was a virtuous and indomitable nation. Stalin used wartime conferences to demand a Soviet …

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Today in History: October 4, Soviets launch Sputnik, spark the Space Age
2 years, 2 months ago

Today in History: October 4, Soviets launch Sputnik, spark the Space Age

Associated Press  

Today in history: On Oct. 4, 1957, the Space Age began as the Soviet Union launched Sputnik 1, the first artificial satellite, into orbit. Pope Paul VI delivers an address to the United Nations General Assembly in New York, Oct. 4, 1965. This image made from television footage made in Mazar-i-Sharif, Afghanistan, Saturday Dec.1, 2001, shows John Walker Lindh at …

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Mendez makes it to space
2 years, 3 months ago

Mendez makes it to space

The Hindu  

Answer the following questions: 1) Who is the first Cuban cosmonaut? By being part of the Soyuz 38 mission in 1980, Cuban cosmonaut Arnaldo Tamayo Mendez achieved all these firsts, inscribing his name in space history forever. Interkosmos programme During the time Mendez was making his way up the Cuban Air Force, the Soviet Union had designed and formed the …

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Samantha Smith: How a 10-year-old became a Cold War icon of peace
2 years, 5 months ago

Samantha Smith: How a 10-year-old became a Cold War icon of peace

Hindustan Times  

She wrote an urgent letter at age 10 to then Soviet Union leader, Yuri Andropov, that made headlines in the 1980s. In a 2018 article, Smithsonian Magazine described 1983 as "a perilous moment in the Cold War — in March that year, Reagan delivered his "Evil Empire" speech, calling for increased military spending and a modernized nuclear stockpile to thwart …

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Op-Ed: Lessons from the Soviets on how to hold Russia accountable for war crimes
2 years, 8 months ago

Op-Ed: Lessons from the Soviets on how to hold Russia accountable for war crimes

LA Times  

The body of a man, with his wrists tied behind his back, lies on a street in Bucha, Ukraine on April 2, after the Russian forces withdrew from that town. Ukraine’s State Prosecutor’s Office has already started investigating crimes committed by Russian troops and the International Criminal Court might get involved as well. Yet, ironically, Soviet efforts during World War …

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With Chernobyl capture, Putin has wound the clock 36 years back to Soviet story
2 years, 9 months ago

With Chernobyl capture, Putin has wound the clock 36 years back to Soviet story

India Today  

When the Russian forces hurriedly captured a relatively unguarded Chernobyl nuclear plant in Ukraine hours after President Vladimir Putin ordered the invasion of the country on February 24, he took back the Great Russian Dream story 36 years back from where it all began. The protests over the disaster in Chernobyl nuclear plant, barely 150 km from Kyiv, the Ukrainian …

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JFK assassination files: What we’ve learned so far from the 1,500 documents
3 years ago

JFK assassination files: What we’ve learned so far from the 1,500 documents

The Independent  

The latest headlines from our reporters across the US sent straight to your inbox each weekday Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. On 1 October, CIA agents in Mexico intercepted …

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Mikhail Gorbachev, Leader Who Pulled Soviets from Afghanistan, Says US Campaign Was Doomed from Start
3 years, 4 months ago

Mikhail Gorbachev, Leader Who Pulled Soviets from Afghanistan, Says US Campaign Was Doomed from Start

News 18  

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 …

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The looking glass of history in Afghanistan
3 years, 4 months ago

The looking glass of history in Afghanistan

The Hindu  

Mikhail Gorbachev became General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in March 1985. In his insightful book, The Great Game in Afghanistan: Rajiv Gandhi, General Zia and the Unending War, Kallol Bhattacherjee records that immediately after becoming the Soviet Union’s supreme leader, Mr. Gorbachev had met the Pakistani dictator in Moscow. Now, a new U.S. leader, President …

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How The Olympic Medal Table Explains The World
3 years, 4 months ago

How The Olympic Medal Table Explains The World

NPR  

How The Olympic Medal Table Explains The World Enlarge this image toggle caption Issei Kato/AP Issei Kato/AP Editor's note: This story was originally published during the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro and has been updated for the Tokyo Olympics this summer. Starting from zero three decades ago, China now has the second-strongest Olympic team — and the world's …

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No free lunch in diplomacy: India’s lesson in Afghanistan
3 years, 5 months ago

No free lunch in diplomacy: India’s lesson in Afghanistan

Deccan Chronicle  

The United States of America and the Soviet Union were undoubtedly the super-victors of World War Two. However the track record of the US after the Second World War in military interventions around the world has been chequered to say the least. After 1975 till 1990, the US was engaged in a number of proxy wars around the world as …

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Will Afghanistan Collapse When the US Withdraws?
3 years, 6 months ago

Will Afghanistan Collapse When the US Withdraws?

The Diplomat  

On February 8, 1988, then-President Mikhail Gorbachev announced that the Soviet Union would withdraw its military forces from Afghanistan. The Soviet Withdrawal Writing as a RAND analyst in 1991, Zalmay Khalilzad – today the United States’ special representative for Afghanistan reconciliation – identified three assumptions that underpinned predictions of Najibullah’s hasty overthrow: his regime was brittle and likely to fragment …

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The genius behind early Russian space tech
3 years, 8 months ago

The genius behind early Russian space tech

BBC  

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 …

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Yuri Gagarin: the spaceman who came in from the cold
3 years, 8 months ago

Yuri Gagarin: the spaceman who came in from the cold

BBC  

Yuri Gagarin: the spaceman who came in from the cold Sergei Bobylev/TASS/Getty Images Gagarin mural in Moscow Yuri Gagarin belied the West's austere impression of the Soviet Union – a charming, easygoing Russian with a ready smile. Yuri Kadobnov/AFP/Getty Images Gagarin's iconic presence did not die with the fall of the Soviet Union In the UK, Gagarin's popularity took the …

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Ex-CIA chief releases new theory on JFK assassination
3 years, 10 months ago

Ex-CIA chief releases new theory on JFK assassination

The Independent  

Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email Get our free Inside Washington email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. The new book, seen by The New York Post, claims that Lee Harvey Oswald …

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CIA document reveals depth of Soviet penetration in Indian media
4 years, 2 months ago

CIA document reveals depth of Soviet penetration in Indian media

Op India  

The success of Vivek Agnihotri-directed movie ‘Tashkent Files’ has aroused the interest of Indian youth in the field of espionage during the cold war between USSR and USA. However, the CIA declassified a document titled ‘The Soviets in India: Moscow’s Major Penetration Program’ in 2011, two decades after the fall of USSR; which revealed the depth of KGB infiltration in …

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How Soviet Russia Used an Indian Newspaper to Spread Disinformation about AIDS Virus
4 years, 2 months ago

How Soviet Russia Used an Indian Newspaper to Spread Disinformation about AIDS Virus

News 18  

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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Cold War rivalries split the Olympics in Moscow in 1980
4 years, 4 months ago

Cold War rivalries split the Olympics in Moscow in 1980

Associated Press  

EDITORS — With the Tokyo Olympics postponed for a year because of the coronavirus pandemic, The Associated Press is looking back at the history of Summer Games. U.S. President Jimmy Carter, facing re-election, pushed for the U.S. to boycott the first Olympics held in the Soviet Union after Soviet troops invaded Afghanistan in December 1979. To prove his win wasn’t …

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Read how India became a puppet of USSR during the Cold War
4 years, 4 months ago

Read how India became a puppet of USSR during the Cold War

Op India  

After the Second World War that saw the Allied powers winning a trouncing victory against the Axis, ideological differences began to emerge between the USSR and USA. Vasili Mitrokhin, a KGB spy who later defected to the United Kingdom, revealed many secret documents and information to the world through his archives called ‘Mitrokhin Archive’. In the chapter ‘The Special Relationship …

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