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Published time: 10 Dec, 2017 11:08 An aviation blog has posted a photo of a US AF F-4 jet flying upside down as it intercepts a Soviet Tu-95 strategic bomber. The story behind it is one of how mid-air encounters now deemed “unsafe” were once regarded as professionals having a bit of fun. The picture […]
These 17 photos show Finland’s brutally cold World War II battle with the Soviet Union NOW WATCH: Scientists predict an unusually warm winter this year in most of the US — here’s why Feedburner
It was, by any measure, an epic celebration, its scope befitting a country that just months earlier had been on the verge of revolution. On March 21 and March 28, 1969, some 500,000 Czechoslovakian citizens poured into the streets to celebrate — and thumb their noses at occupying troops from the Soviet Union, Poland, East […]
AP In 1991, Boris Yeltsin stood atop a tank in front of the parliament building in Moscow and called on the people to resist the communist hardliners in the August coup. Several months later, at the end of the year, Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev resigned, leaving Yeltsin as the president of Russia. Fast forward to December […]
Legendary Soviet first class test pilot Marina Popovich, dubbed “Madam MIG” for going supersonic in the cockpit of a MiG-21 fighter jet, has died at the age of 86. The aviatrix developed a passion for the extraterrestrial, claiming to have encountered UFOs and a Big Foot. Born in 1937, Popovich enlisted in the Air Force […]
Life in Soviet Ukraine wasn’t pretty. But the propaganda sure was. https://media.wired.com/photos/5a1ee309134b282e658d214a/master/pass/01.jpg Feed: All Latest
When a French photographer bought a second-hand Soviet camera in Moscow, she did not expect to find a roll of film inside. Once developed, pictures of a boy from 1990 inspired her to embark on a ‘Find the Russian boy’ quest on social media. And guess what? She found him. Elisabeth Blanchet, a French London-based […]
IN 1955 Jawaharlal Nehru, the prime minister of India, embarked on a 16-day tour of the Soviet Union. He was like a “kid in a candy store”, according to one editor of his letters. Besides the Bolshoi ballet and the embalmed corpse of Stalin, he visited a Stalingrad tractor works, a machinery-maker in Yekaterinburg and […]
November 3 marks the 60th anniversary of Soviet space-dog Laika blasting off in Sputnik 2 to become the first Earth-born creature to orbit our planet. Though it goes without saying Laika wasn’t aware of her self-sacrifice for the greater cause of human space exploration, she became a global phenomenon. “Laika’s portrait was published on the […]
Hurricane Irma left behind a trail of devastation in Florida, but it also delivered something mysterious to its shores – a massive Soviet buoy. Some have suggested the Cold War-era relic came from Cuba. The buoy washed onto shore at Dr. Von D. Mizell-Eula Johnson State Park in Dania Beach in the days following Irma, […]
