In the final years of the USSR, a surge of defiance erupted across the republics. This rebellion wasn’t just resistance—it ...

In 1941, Nazi Germany launched the largest land invasion in history—expecting to crush the Soviet Union in weeks. Instead, ...

The Soviet Union launched the spacecraft known as Kosmos 482 as part of a series of Venus missions. Following a rocket malfunction, it never made it out of Earth orbit Now, it’s expected to fall ...

Kosmos 482 was launched by the Soviet Union in 1972 to travel to Venus and pass through the planet's thick atmosphere. However, an issue with the launch left the spacecraft in limbo orbiting the ...

Kosmos 482 was launched by the Soviet Union in 1972 to travel to Venus and pass through the planet's thick atmosphere. However, an issue with the launch left the spacecraft in limbo, orbiting the ...

A Soviet spacecraft that stalled on its way to Venus is about to fall back to Earth, space-debris trackers say, and nobody knows where it might land. Trackers think the object that's rapidly losing ...

Soviet Spy Scandal News of a widespread spy ring in Canada cools relations with the Soviet Union In September 1945, a young Russian man symbolically ushered in the Cold War when he walked into ...

But the Soviet Union didn't really begin to spend its oil in a concentrated way until after the Second World War. That's when communists began to burn petroleum, well, like Americans by building ...