And the Soviet Union had been an ally to the West during ... not knowing whether he was a suspect or a witness. Twenty people were eventually sent to trial. Nine were acquitted, including Dr ...

People like Sergey Brin ... to get in,” said Kulevnich, a 38-year-old mother of one from Minsk. Many Jews did not get in, at least not to the Soviet Union’s finest schools and universities ...

The 28-year-old banker and 25-year-old interior designer ... “you’re writing about what it was like in the Soviet Union? People lived a lot better then.” “What!” exclaims Alexander.

In one of the most remarkable non-violent revolutions in history, the people of Estonia used music as their greatest weapon. For decades under Soviet rule, Estonians gathered to sing folk songs that ...

Tskaltubo in Georgia was once one of the largest spa towns in the Soviet Union, with hundreds of thousands of people visiting ...

To the dissidents of the Soviet Union, that question was so relevant that it became a famous and ironic toast. Supposedly introduced to dissident circles in the early 1970s by Naum Korzhavin ...

that was both groundbreaking and heartbreaking. On November 3rd, 1957, the Soviet Union made history by launching the first living creature into Earth’s orbit: not a human, but a dog.

The US responds with an 11-month long airlift of supplies to people trapped in that part of the city. On 29 August 1949 the Soviet Union tests its first atomic bomb. The Cold War begins in earnest.