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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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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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Saeed Naqvi | Afghan in mess, but Biden’s end to US ‘forever wars’ welcome
3 years, 3 months ago

Saeed Naqvi | Afghan in mess, but Biden’s end to US ‘forever wars’ welcome

Deccan Chronicle  

American President Joe Biden’s troop withdrawal from Afghanistan has been messy, agreed, but if it means an end to the US’ “forever wars”, isn’t that to be welcomed? When Donald Trump asked Jimmy Carter “What should we do, China is going ahead of us?”, Jimmy Carter’s pithy response was: “China hasn’t been at war since 1978; we’ve never stopped being …

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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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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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