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History Today: When the Soviet Union invaded Czechoslovakia

Troops from the Soviet Union, along with other members of the Warsaw Pact, invaded Czechoslovakia on 1968. This came as a ...
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The Soviet Economy: Why It Couldn’t Survive and What We Can Learn from It

The economy of the Soviet Union was one of the most ambitious economic experiments in history. For over 70 years, the USSR ...
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A Tank with a Jet Engine? The Soviet Union Tried It Once…

Throughout its brief but interesting life, the Progvev-T encountered numerous problems that ultimately doomed this gonzo idea ...
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Russian Foreign Minister Arrives in Alaska Wearing Soviet Union ‘CCCP’ Shirt

Lavrov touched down in Anchorage wearing a white “CCCP” sweater – the Soviet Union’s old insignia, the cyrillic spelling of ...
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How a Saint’s Feast Became Hungary’s National Holiday After Communism

Once suppressed under communist rule, the feast of St. Stephen is now the country’s defining civic and religious holiday.

On Sky News, a warm-up went on: Crimea has historically been part of Russia and The Soviet Union

EADaily, August 19th, 2025. On the British news television channel Sky News, the audience "warmed up", they suddenly started talking about the fact that Crimea was historically part of Russia and The ...

What to know about Crimea, the Black Sea peninsula seized by Russia from Ukraine over a decade ago

Russia’s illegal seizure of the Crimean Peninsula from Ukraine in March 2014 was quick and bloodless, and it sent Moscow’s ...