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The Economy of the Soviet Union - Rise, Control and Collapse
The Soviet Union built one of the most rapidly growing economies in history, but it also suffered one of the most dramatic ...
Will Cain: Timeline Of NATO Expansionism That Led To Russia-Ukraine War
Why is it that everything in our world has to be turned into a catchphrase, a slogan? Why does all critical thinking have to ...
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Journalist who had Khrushchev’s ear as nuclear war loomed says Putin wouldn’t have caved to US
When 94-year-old veteran foreign correspondent Marvin Kalb speaks, world leaders should pay attention. His new memoir, 'A ...
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The Douglas A-20 Havoc: The American Bomber that Won Soviet Hearts
What made the Douglas A-20 Havoc the Soviet Union’s favorite American bomber during WWII? In this episode, we reveal the surprising bond between this powerful aircraft and the Red Army. From its ...
Boris Spassky, Soviet chess champion who lost famed Cold War-era match to Bobby Fischer, dies at 88
Boris Spassky, a Soviet-era world chess champion who lost his title to American Bobby Fischer in a legendary 1972 match that ...
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Brian Howey: America prepares to switch sides to Russia
Over seven decades, the communist Soviet Union murdered an estimated 61 million of its own people in a quest for ideological ...
Boris Spassky, endlessly witty and a free soul, was more than just Fischer’s victim or a Soviet Union foot soldier
There was beauty in his brutal cavalier playing style and the Russian just couldn't be hemmed in by the iron-fisted communist ...
Northwest Asian Weekly17h
Lauren Yee brings another of her plays to Seattle—this time about Russia, but also about us
Yee’s so-called “cycle” started with the play, “Cambodian Rock Band,” followed by “The Great Leap,” set in China in the 1980s ...