MINSK, 1 May (BelTA) - In the 1970s, the Soviet Union missed a strategic initiative because it expected to join the so-called Western community on equal terms, Russian historian, director of the ...

WASHINGTON, Conn. (AP) — Journalist and author George Krimsky, who covered Charles Manson’s arrest, the Lebanese civil war and dissident activity in the Soviet Union and co-founded a center for ...

In the winter of 1973-1974, gasoline was so scarce that American truckers short of fuel blocked highways in protest and in Europe the horse and cart returned to some city streets. Such was the squeeze ...

The Soviet Union is unsurpassed in the art of defense budgetry. The point of the game is not so much to lay out actual fiscal allocations as to demonstrate to outsiders the latest Kremlin ...

In the 1970s, the Soviet Union quietly turned a “civilian” space station into a weapon, installing a rapid-fire cannon on Salyut 3 under the secret Almaz program. Decades later, declassified fragments ...

Explore how the Soviet command economy led to consumer goods shortages, impacting daily life. Understand government production priorities and market limitations.

A defunct spacecraft from the former Soviet Union that has been stuck in space for more than half a century is, at last, about to come home. Kosmos-482 was launched on a voyage to Venus in March 1972 ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: Su-17s left Russian service alongside their MiG-23BN and MiG-27 counterparts during defense reforms during the 1990s and 2000s as single-engine aircraft were not ...