The New Yorker14d
The Fraught U.S.-Soviet Search for Alien Life
During the Cold War, American and Soviet scientists embarked on an unprecedented quest to contact extraterrestrials. But ...
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Life Inside The Führerbunker: Adolf Hitler’s Paranoid Final Few Days...
The streets of Berlin were devastated beyond recognition in some areas as 33-year-old photographer William Vandivert was led to the location of the former German chancellery buildings. Just days ...
Kasparov, Karpov and the KGB? Four decades on from the most controversial chess match of all time
FIDE President Florencio Campomanes announced that he was abandoning the World Chess Championship match between Garry ...
Australian Broadcasting Corporation23d
The controversial diary of a Finnish woman lured by the dream of Soviet Russia that turned into a nightmare
Before Huurre's decision to leave Finland in the early 1930s for the Soviet Union, she led a "perfectly normal life", says Hyrske. "In the book, she tries to explain it to herself and to the ...
The Nation1mon
The Often Misunderstood History of the Soviet Dissidents
This particular “life” of the dissident movement culminated ... set into motion some of the processes leading to the Soviet Union’s collapse, its lack of attention to institution-building ...
On This Day: Soviet Union expels dissident Alexander Solzhenitsyn
In 1974, the Soviet Union expelled dissident writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn. In 1983, a blaze engulfed a crowded movie theater ...
World champion Russian skaters on American Airlines jet built a new life as coaches in the US
Evgenia Shishkova and Vadim Naumov won a world championship title together in pairs skating in 1994 and narrowly missed out on Olympic medals that year at the Lillehammer Games before moving to the ...