The Shocking Death of the First Man in Space—And the Soviet Cover-Up That Hid the Truth for 45 Years

When he came back to Earth, Gagarin was looked upon as not just a hero, but the very embodiment of the Soviet Union’s power.

Miracle in Sinaia: Israeli underdogs break Soviet chess dominance in 1965

In 1965, a group of Israeli amateurs shocked the Soviet chess elite, securing a moral victory in the Cold War arena. The ...
C-SPAN

Lesson Plan: History of the American Space Program

This lesson details how NASA got from Alan Shepard rocketing into low orbit in 1961 to Neil Armstrong taking "one small step" on the lunar surface in 1969 and today's ...

Two Radio Operators Tapped Into a Soviet Frequency. Did They Hear a Woman Burning Alive in Space?

The brothers claimed to have captured secret audio of cosmonauts, including a horrific death.
Hackaday

Soviet CDs And CD Players Existed, And They Were Strange

Until the fall of the Soviet Union around 1990 you’d be forgiven as a proud Soviet citizen for thinking that the USSR’s technology was on par with the decadent West. After the Iron ...
American Rifleman

Guns Of The Soviet Partisans In World War II

** When you buy products through the links on our site, we may earn a commission that supports NRA's mission to protect, preserve and defend the Second Amendment. ** Partisan bands had a rag-tag ...
The Diplomat

Soviet Central Asian Leaders Are Far From Gone

What the West Misses About China’s Nuclear Build-up A bust of Kunayev in a park named after the former Kazakh SSR leader in Almaty. Credit: Wikimedia Commons / Vmenkov Subscribe for ads-free reading ...
Forbes

The Soviet Army Once Shot Its Own Troops For Retreating. The Russian Army Might Do The Same.

A Soviet machine gun team during World War II. After losing as many as 100,000 troops killed and wounded in Ukraine and forcibly drafting 300,000 unwilling men to replace them, the Russian army ...

Fact Check: Probing claim declassified CIA document confirms aliens turned Soviet troops to stone

While the document appeared on the CIA's website, it was merely a translation of a newspaper article based on a fabricated ...
Time

What to Know About The Soviet-Era Venus Spacecraft Plunging Back to Earth

Soviet space probe Venera 5 or 6 launched in January 1969. This is a still from the film 'The Storming of Venus' released on May 17, 1969. Soviet space probe Venera 5 or 6 launched in January 1969.
Time

Mikhail Gorbachev Championed 'Glasnost' and 'Perestroika.' Here's How They Changed the World

Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev at a press conference in the Elysee Palace in Paris, France, in 1985. Staff Writer Countless words will be dedicated in the following days to Mikhail Gorbachev, the ...
Bloomberg L.P.

Thirty Years Gone, the Soviet Union Is Not Quite Dead

Leonid Bershidsky, formerly Bloomberg Opinion’s Europe columnist, is a member of the Bloomberg News Automation Team. He recently published Russian translations of George Orwell’s “1984” and Franz ...