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 ...
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The Often Misunderstood History of the Soviet Dissidents
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 ...
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Sukhoi T-4MS: The Soviet Stealth Bomber That Never Was
But regarding those 4th-generation stealth warbirds, one might reasonably ask where the heck the Soviet Union, and then the Russian Federation, was. After all, the Cold War featured a seemingly ...
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Lukashenko: ‘A hostage of the system that he himself created’
Lukashenko’s foreign policy echoed the old Soviet Union’s position during the Cold War. He railed against Western imperialism and travelled to Belgrade amid NATO bombing to support Serbia’s ...