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What’s a cold war? A historian explains how rivals US and Soviet Union competed off the battlefield
The Soviet Union’s major ally during the first half of the Cold War, the communist-led People’s Republic of China, contributed massive numbers of troops to the conflict in Korea and provided ...
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'Cold War flashback': Expert explains West’s shock at scale of SBU operation in Russia
A large-scale attack on Russia’s strategic aviation has shocked the Western world. No intelligence agency in the world has ...
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Declassified Cold War-era CIA files detail Soviet clash with aliens who witnesses say turned soldiers to stone
A declassified Cold War ... between Soviet soldiers and a UFO, passengers of which reportedly turned the troops to stone before blasting off. Following the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 ...
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Mikhail Gorbachev, the Soviet Union’s final leader, dies
Mikhail Gorbachev, who enabled the Cold War to come to a peaceful end during his astonishing tenure as the leader of the Soviet Union, has died. He was 91 and reportedly died after a long illness ...
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The bitter lessons of the Cold War’s end
When the Soviet Union collapsed on Christmas Day in 1991, a wave of euphoria washed over the West. Barely two years had elapsed since the fall of the Berlin Wall, and suddenly, the Cold War was over.
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Mikhail Gorbachev dies; Soviet Union’s last leader helped end Cold War
liberated the arts and pulled Red Army troops from foreign conflicts such as the Soviet Union’s 10-year debacle in Afghanistan. He forged disarmament treaties with Cold War enemies, freed ...
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China poses ‘existential’ threat more dangerous than Soviet Union during Cold War: Report
The report offers detailed foreign and domestic policy prescriptions built on the policies used in the Cold War with the Soviet Union, a clash that ended with its collapse in 1991. The authors ...
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Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, who helped end the Cold War, has died
The man who oversaw the end of the Cold War and then the end of the Soviet Union has died. NPR's Charles Maynes remembers Mikhail Gorbachev. CHARLES MAYNES, BYLINE: When Mikhail Gorbachev was ...
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Gorbachev, Putin contrast: Darcy cartoon
As Gorbachev lay in repose, roses were brought to him by Russian president Vladimir Putin who wants to revive that cold war Soviet Union Gorbachev worked to reform. Can’t say Putin was ‘paying ...
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Why the Soviet Buran Only Launched Once – A Cold War Story
The Buran was the Soviet Union’s answer to NASA's Space Shuttle ... This video reveals the Cold War motivations, the technological feats, and the ultimate reasons for its cancellation.
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Could It Be That the Soviet Union Actually Won the Cold War — After the Fact?
It is difficult not to conclude that, culturally, morally and intellectually, the Soviet Union won the Cold War, and its victory is becoming more apparent every day. Mr. Dalrymple, born in 1949, is a ...
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Cold War Soviet spacecraft to crash ‘somewhere in Western hemisphere’
A Cold War-era spacecraft will come crashing down to Earth this weekend… but nobody quite knows where. The Soviet Union’s “Kosmos 482” probe launched in 1972, bound for Venus, but suffered ...