The land that is now Uzbekistan was once at the heart of the ancient Silk Road trade route connecting China with the Middle East and Rome. The country spent most of the past 200 years as part of the Russian Empire, and then of the Soviet Union, before emerging as an independent state when Soviet
The European Union is doomed to collapse in the same way as the Soviet Union within decades, an academic has warned. Gwythian Prins, a Brexit supporter, said the European project had echoes of the Soviet project which collapsed in 1991. He said the EU was becoming ever more complex and not taking
A massive crowd had gathered in Pyongyang to celebrate the Soviet Union’s role in freeing Korea from 35 years of Japanese colonial rule. The rally also gave Soviet Gen. Nikolai Levedev the opportunity to introduce Kim Il …
In the Western popular imagination — particularly the American one — World War II is a conflict we won. It was fought on the beaches of Normandy and Iwo Jima, through the rubble of recaptured French towns and capped by sepia-toned scenes of joy and love in New York. It was a victory shaped by the steeliness of Gen. Dwight D. …
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U.S. Government Planned False Flag Attacks to Start War With Soviet Union, JFK Documents Show
As more than 2,800 JFK files are released, one document reveals how the Soviet Union feared they were going to get blamed for putting Lee Harvey Oswald up to the assassination of JFK.
Censorship of images in the Soviet Union was widespread in the USSR.Visual censorship was exploited in a political context, particularly during the political purges of Joseph Stalin, where the Soviet government attempted to erase some purged figures from Soviet history, and took measures which included altering images and destroying …
From Armenia to Uzbekistan, your guide to the countries that rose from the ashes of the Soviet Union
The dissolution of the Soviet Union [a] occurred on December 26, 1991, officially granting self-governing independence to the Republics of the Soviet Union.It was a result of the declaration number 142-Н of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union. The declaration acknowledged the independence of the former Soviet republics and …
