For Ukrainians, a nuclear missile museum is a bitter reminder of what the country gave up

The Museum of Strategic Missile Forces tells the story of how Ukraine dismantled its nuclear weapons arsenal after ...
Digital Camera World on MSN

This Soviet 'sniper' camera looks more like a rifle than a photography tool and once sold for $63,000!

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The Soviet secret: Why Russia dug the deepest hole on Earth and then sealed it

Explore the fascinating tale of the Kola Superdeep Borehole, a monumental scientific endeavor by the Soviet Union that aimed to explore the Earth's crust, revealing unexpected discoveries and ...
Dark Skies Official on MSN

The Soviet interceptor designed to hunt missiles

During the height of the Cold War, the Soviet Union faced a growing threat from NATO’s low-flying strike aircraft and ...

Motherland by Julia Ioffe: The unfairly forgotten women of the Soviet Union

Julia Ioffe has created a riveting red history of the Soviet Union through a colourful cast of remarkable women: some of them ...
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 ...

Battleship Potemkin at 100: how the Soviet film redrew the boundaries of cinema

A century on, Battleship Potemkin’s vision of oppression, courage and collective resistance still crackles with an energy ...
Greek Reporter

The Ethnic Cleansing of Greeks in Stalin’s Soviet Union

On December 15, 1937, at the height of the Great Terror in Stalin's Soviet Union, the ethnic cleansing of thousands of Greeks ...
Matt and Julia on MSN

50 hours in a forgotten Soviet outpost

Explore the abandoned Soviet-era ghost town of Pyramiden, located in the Arctic wilderness of Svalbard. This former mining settlement, established in the 1970s and abandoned in the 1990s, serves as a ...

34 years since the fall of the Evil Empire

The following day, the 26th, the Soviet Union was no more. Dissolved was the 74-year reign of mass murder, the persecution of ...
Time

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

Countless words will be dedicated in the following days to Mikhail Gorbachev, the Soviet leader who died Aug. 30 at the age of 91. But throughout his obituaries, two specific words will likely be ...