The USSR had organized special sanatoriums for people left disabled after the war. Conditions there were not as appalling as the rumors claimed. Here’s why... “Hundreds of thousands of disabled people ...
If The Beatles were down one band member, it wasn’t the end of the world. In most cases, Paul McCartney would pick up the slack and the recording would go on. A famous example came in 1969, when John ...
The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. As humans began to ...
From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...
Yu. Levyant/Sputnik Did Soviet barmen work for the KGB? Read on to find out the answers to all those burning questions about boozing over the Iron Curtain. 1. The first bars in the USSR appeared after ...
MOSCOW: When the leaders of the Soviet Union's three Slavic republics met at a secluded hunting lodge on Dec. 8, 1991, the fate of vast country hung in the balance. With a stroke of their pens, they ...
A chronology of key events: 1917 April - Lenin and other revolutionaries return to Russia from Germany. Gone but not forgotten: Many Russians still fondly remember the Soviet Union and its symbols ...
Article in the newspaper of Uruguayan anarcho-syndicalists from 1937 criticising a pro-Moscow line in the newspaper of the Spanish anarcho-syndicalist CNT union. It is with growing sadness and sense ...
It was a cold and grey afternoon in early November, 1984, when I, a first grader in Kharkiv—a city in what was then Soviet Ukraine—walked home after school with high spirits and feeling ready to ...
These photographs by Rebecca Bathory make it seem as if the apocalypse has come and gone and the world is in complete ruins. Not quite. They’re actually photographs of countries and places that were a ...
Here’s What You Need to Remember: While decisions about weapon systems often reverberate across an entire defense-industrial base, they only rarely change the fates of nations. For nearly seven ...