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WWII is remembered as the worst struggle in human history, concluding with Nazi Germany's defeat in 1945. But what if Hitler ...
Like Washington and Beijing before, Moscow and Beijing now are bound by a common adversary: the U.S. and the international order it upholds.
America’s current retreat from world power recalls that of the Soviet Union after 1988. Is the U.S. poised to collapse like the Soviet Union did?
Thirty-five years after the Soviet military began departing Czechia's Milovice Air Base, armored hangars that once held MiG ...
The Soviet Union detonated its first atomic bomb, known in the West as Joe-1, on Aug. 29, 1949, at Semipalatinsk Test Site, in Kazakhstan. The Soviets called their first atomic test "First Lightning." ...
"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 United States.
His poems were enjoyed by all Soviet children. Marshak's poetry for children is a world of goodness, fun, fairy tales, ...
Discos had become a space for early alternative culture ... Disco and rock in the Soviet Union played a not insignificant role in the USSR's unraveling, steering youth leagues and, in turn ...
The Soviet Union was plunged into a power struggle among Stalin’s inner circle following the demise of the man who had led the USSR for nearly three decades. Khrushchev, emerging as a key player ...
For four decades, Castro purposely stood at the center of the dangerous game the United States, the Soviet Union and sometimes China played for political pre-eminence in the Third World.
From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...