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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 ...
Sub Brief on MSN1d

Delta II SSBN: The Soviet Union’s Nuclear Workhorse

The Soviet Delta II class marked a key step in the evolution of ballistic missile submarines during the Cold War. In this ...
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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.

Russia releases declassified documents showing Japanese Unit 731’s atrocities of human experiments in China

The Exhibition Hall of Evidence of Crimes Committed by Unit 731 of the Japanese Imperial Army unveiled the ...
The National Interest on MSN3d

In World War II, the Soviet Union Built a Flying Tank

Soviet aircraft designer Oleg Antonov completed this ambitious design in just a few months, with construction taking place in ...
The National Interest on MSN3d

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 ...

Russian parliament speaker to visit China, Vedomosti says

Russian State Duma Chairman Vyacheslav Volodin is due to visit China this week as head of a parliamentary delegation, the ...