If the Soviet Navy’s base at Cienfuegos, Cuba, had been fully established before the Nixon administration intervened to stop ...

The fact that the Soviets were using large numbers of their older tanks did not inherently mean that they were likely to lose ...

Around 3 million ethnic Germans who emigrated from the former Soviet Union live in Germany today. Many have become prosperous ...

THE SOVIET Union was a brutal regime fronted by dangerous, power-hungry madmen who ruled with a vice-like grip. Sound ...

The police expected to find that the Russians had forged the documents or bribed municipal officials to create them and slip ...

The old and funny song from 50 years ago helped to link the former Soviet Union antisemitism to the present day’s hatred of ...

Popular artists “on the bone” included Ella Fitzgerald and Elvis Presley, whose jazz and rock ’n’ roll recordings, to the ears of many Soviet citizens, represented freedom and self-expression.

Kosmos 482 —originally launched on March 31, 1972, as part of the Soviet Union's ambitious Venera program to explore Venus—is expected to make a crash landing on Earth around May 9–10, 2025. Due to a ...

In late March 1972, the Soviet Union's Cosmos 482 was launched. But that attempted Venus probe ran amuck during its rocket-assisted toss to the cloud-veiled world. Major elements of that failed craft ...

In 1972, the Soviet Union’s Venera 8 spacecraft became the second ever to land on Venus. It operated for 50 minutes in the planet’s harsh environment before succumbing to the intense heat. But this ...

A Soviet-era spacecraft meant to land on Venus in the 1970s is expected to soon plunge uncontrolled back to Earth.