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 ...
I.Budnevich, V.Medvedev/TASS It would be an exaggeration to say that the Soviet Union was completely free of racial prejudice, but the country was also the most passionate critic of the United States ...
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 ...
The expert pointed to the Kremlin's fatal mistake. The increase in spending on war shows that Russia is confidently following ...
The geopolitical discourse of our times is dominated by a growing multipolarity, unlike 30 years back, when the world was dominated by two superpowers: The United States and the erstwhile USSR. In ...
In Akademgorodok, residents experienced cultural freedom unlike anywhere else in the USSR. To this day, the town is one of the most important research centres in Russia. The Siberian taiga, where ...
The USSR (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics) was formed after the Civil war of 1921 as the World's first Marxist-Communist state in the world. After that it would become one of the biggest and most ...
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 ...
GK Quiz on USSR: Soviet Union, officially known as the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR). It was the former northern Eurasian empire (1917/22-1991) that stretched from the Baltic and ...
Knocking the USSR out of the war in the same way that they had knocked France out of the war was almost impossible given geographic reality. Yet, by the end of 1941 Germany faced an unbeatable Allied ...
Between the Russian Revolution of 1917 and the dissolution of the USSR in 1991, the Soviet Union built hundreds of sanatoriums across its vast empire for the relaxation and recuperation of its ...
Leonid Bershidsky, formerly Bloomberg Opinion’s Europe columnist, is a member of the Bloomberg News Automation Team. He recently published Russian translations of George Orwell’s “1984” and Franz ...
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