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The Soviet Union’s Tupolev Tu-4 strategic bomber, which entered service in 1949, represented one of the most glaring episodes ...
The Soviet Army, with its enormous size and power, was the largest and most formidable military force in history. Between ...
The ANT-9 was one of the Soviet Union’s first major aviation breakthroughs. This video explores how it helped shape the future of Soviet aircraft design and commercial flight.
In the aftermath of the Second World War, as the Soviet Union imposed ideological control across Eastern Europe, the CIA ...
When was the B-2 bomber made? These are the years this stealth military aircraft was produced and how many are still ...
1922 - Union treaty formally joins Russia, Ukraine, Belarus and the Transcaucasus - which were divided in 1936 into Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan - into the Soviet Union. 1922 - Germany ...
National Archives and Records Administration The space race between the United States and the Soviet Union stepped up a gear on May 25, 1961, when American President John F. Kennedy announced that his ...
“The Soviet Union, whatever its long-term chances were, was not destined to go down when it did.” By the fall of 1991, however, deepening economic woes and secessionist bids by Soviet ...
The Soviet Union Killed an Appalling Number of Whales. I Wanted to Know Why. The history of Soviet whaling belongs to anyone who looks out to sea and sees nothing.