A new book explores the legacy of the Soviet Union’s human spaceflight program Diane Tedeschi Yuri Gagarin’s status as an icon is evident in Russia’s many memorials for the pioneering cosmonaut, ...
Could the moon landing have been an international program? Roger D. Launius President John F. Kennedy and Chairman Nikita Khrushchev during their meeting in Vienna, Austria. National Archives and ...
The Cold War and its effects. Remarks delivered at the Jordan Center Workshop, New York University, November 1, 2024. My current reading of what Russia has become is based on my own experiences as an ...
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. From the streets of Moscow to the stars: Laika, the soviet ...
A timeline of Stalin's life, the man that oversaw the war machine that helped defeat Nazism and who was the supreme ruler of ...
Originally produced eight decades ago, the impact of the IS-2 Heavy Tank still reverberates today. The formidable armored vehicle was vital to the Soviet Union during two of its most important ...
The museum had preserved the history of brutality inflicted by the Soviet Union on its people. It will now focus on Nazi war crimes. By Neil MacFarquhar The Gulag History Museum in Moscow, the last ...
Making a flyover appearance at the 1950 Soviet May Day parade, the Il-28 went on to become one of the most prolific, reliable, and adaptable bombers in the arsenals of the Soviet Union, the Warsaw ...
The Finnish Sniper Who Killed Over 500 Soviet Soldiers, the Most Confirmed Kills in Military History
Simo Häyhä, the Finnish sniper who killed hundreds of Soviets during the Winter War, aiming his rifle while wearing his winter camouflage. (Wikimedia Commons) The Soviet soldiers never saw him. Their ...
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