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'He swam out to the Russian vessel and was never seen alive again': The Cold War spy mystery of the 'vanishing frogman'
Commander "Buster" Crabb disappeared during a visit to the UK by Soviet leader Nikita Khruschev. In 2006, a BBC reporter read ...
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How Russia's Victory Day reflects a divided world order
Russia's Victory Day commemorations yesterday marked 80 years since the Soviet Union's defeat of Nazi Germany. More than 20 ...
Historian Answers Cold War Questions
of the Cold War. on the outskirts of Berlin. That was Winston Churchill, Joseph Stalin, and Harry Truman. to divide up the ...
What we know about the Soviet spacecraft returning to Earth this week
As the last remnant of the Soviet Venus program left in Earth’s orbit, Kosmos 482 is not your average piece of space junk ...
My life as a Soviet food spy
In 1978, I was sent to Moscow as a reporter for Reuters news agency. It was the height of the cold war, and we worked mostly from the Soviet press and news wires, and from information provided by ...
The 'barrier of suspicion' that marked the beginning of the Cold War
Hitler's betrayal of his ally cost the lives of 29 million Russians... but the Eastern Front broke Germany's armies and ...
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Russian satellite plunging to Earth – likely impact, Europe
A cold-war era Russian satellite is falling to Earth and is likely to survive re-entry and hit somewhere in Europe at the ...
'My dad was shot down over the Soviet Union' - what happens when a US spy plane gets caught?
In May 1960 an American U-2 spy plane flew over Russian missile sites. The US thought it was beyond the reach of Soviet air ...
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'He swam out to the Russian vessel and was never seen alive again': The Cold War spy mystery of the 'vanishing frogman'
The decorated frogman had vanished during a goodwill visit to the UK by the Soviet leadership at the height of Cold War tensions ... to investigate the Russian ship Ordzhonikidze.