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." ...

Leonov recalled the reaction in the Soviet Union: "There were lots of letters addressed to the government, all of which asked how it could have happened, how come Americans were ahead of us.

At the time of the Soviet Union’s collapse in 1991, Communists had been in power for 74 years in Moscow. The Chinese Communist Party has now surpassed “big brother”, as it once called the ...

Raiklin, Benjamin E 2009. Soviet cinema in the wake of the terror: the Artistic Council at Mosfilm, 1939–41. Studies in Russian and Soviet Cinema, Vol. 3, Issue. 3, p. 267.

Soviet World War II victory flags are appearing in Russian-occupied Ukrainian towns, CNN reported, as Western intelligence says Russia likely wants to secure major progress in its invasion ahead ...

The relationship between the UK and the Soviet Union was one of the key political and military relationships of World War II and the Cold War that followed it. Through the wartime alliance between the ...

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Strange relationships are formed by war, not least that of the USSR and Great Britain in World War Two. The invasion of Russia by Nazi Germany in 1941 shattered their formerly expedient pact and ...

Click through as we put together a list of 25 national flags and their respective meanings. United Kingdom Though officially called the Union Flag, the flag of the U.K. is popularly known as the ...

Ibragimov, Ruslan Rustamovich Fazliev, Aivaz Minnegosmanovich Samatova, Chulpan Khamitovna and Alimov, Boturzhon Khamidovich 2020. Foreign policy factor in State-Church relations in the Soviet Union ...

Mr Gorbachev took power in 1985 and introduced reforms, as well as opening up the Soviet Union to the world. But he was unable to prevent the slow collapse of the union, and many Russians blamed ...

In 2021, around the 30th anniversary of the Soviet Union’s collapse, a five-part documentary aired across China, blaming Khrushchev’s denunciation of Stalin for igniting "historical nihilism ...