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The Soviet Bomber That Carried 52 Gallons of Vodka

It sounds like a joke but it wasn’t. The Soviet Union’s first supersonic bomber wasn’t just dangerous to fly, it came with an onboard vodka tank. Discover how the infamous Tu-22 earned the nickname ...
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Here's why Soviet pilots are buried at a US base in Alaska

Putin will lay flowers at the Soviet pilots’ section of Fort Richardson National Cemetery after his Alaska summit with Trump. The graves are tied to the WWII Lend-Lease Program, when U.S. and Soviet ...
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The Final Storm: The Soviet Siege of Berlin in 1945

The battle for Berlin was a relentless, overwhelming assault marked by the largest artillery bombardment in history, with millions of shells raining down on the city. As Soviet forces closed in from ...
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Red leviathan the secret history of Soviet whaling Ryan Tucker Jones

Russia's whale problem -- The whales of distant seas -- A revolution in whaling -- North Pacific numbers -- War and glory in the Antarctic -- Aleksei Solyanik and the end of Area V -- The Kollektiv ...