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Never Forget the Lockheed P-80 Shooting Star
Designed during the closing years of WWII and introduced in 1945, the P-80 bridged the gap between propeller-driven aircraft ...
A Brief History of the Soviet Deserters Who Aided Hitler
Hundreds of thousands of foreigners served in the Wehrmacht, most famously the Vlasov Army.
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Will the U.S. collapse like the Soviet Union did?
“You’re next,” said a Russian historian I interviewed in 1993 about the Soviet Union’s collapse in late 1991. I was an American student in St. Petersburg, and he was referring to the ...
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Kasparov, Karpov and the KGB? Four decades on from the most controversial chess match of all time
the Soviet Union was well-known for its extensive use of propaganda, including the promotion of elite sportspeople like ice hockey star Vladislav Tretiak and soccer goalkeeper Lev Yashin.