Nicknamed the “Black Hole” by the U.S. Navy for its extreme quietness, Russia’s Kilo-class submarine is one of history’s most ...
Few moments in history shocked the world like the fall of the Soviet Union. Once a superpower commanding half the globe, the ...
In a moment considered the start of the dissident movement in the Soviet Union, hundreds of protesters demonstrated in Pushkin Square, in Moscow, for the writers to be given an open trial. Vicky ...
The Cuban Missile Crisis was a major confrontation that brought the United States, and the Soviet Union close to war over the ...
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KCTV) - September 23, 1949. US President Harry S. Truman announces evidence of the USSR’s first nuclear device detonation.
The events that have been taking place in Europe since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 had never before occurred in the same cumulative fashion in the continent’s history. First, led by the ...