The Times of Israel

The World in Front of Me: Soviet Union

Behind the Iron Curtain, photographer Bill Aron documented Soviet Jewish life, refuseniks, and the resilience of faith under ...
Opinion
The Highland County PressOpinion

One blueprint, three powers: How the Soviet Union, Russia and China have systematically subverted the United States

What I saw in those archives, and what I have watched unfold in the United States over the past three decades, are not two separate stories. They are one story, told in two languages. I. The Blueprint ...
CBS News

Mikhail Gorbachev, last leader of the Soviet Union, dies at 91

Mikhail Gorbachev, the last leader of the Soviet Union, has died at age 91, Russian state media reported and his personal press secretary Vladimir Polyakov confirmed to CBS News. His cause of death ...
The Blogs | The Times of IsraelOpinion

The Soviet Court That Never Left

Lithuania left the Soviet Union in 1990. Its courts and regulators still behave, in the cases that matter to the state, as ...
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Is China repeating the Soviet Union’s collapse?

This analysis explores the systemic vulnerabilities of modern authoritarian regimes by drawing parallels between the ...

81st anniversary of Soviet Union's victory in Great Patriotic War commemorated in Russia

Soldiers perform on stage to commemorate the 81st anniversary of the Soviet Union's victory in the Great Patriotic War, in St ...
Irish Sun

Which countries were in the Soviet Union?

THE USSR was one of the largest political, military, and economic powers in the world during the 20th century. The Soviet Union was formed of 15 member countries, all ruled by one central communist ...
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Why America’s F-15 terrified the Soviet Union - air superiority monster

The U.S. F-15 Eagle was developed during the Cold War as an air superiority fighter designed to counter advanced aircraft ...
BBC

The Soviet Union's Last Stand

The events of August 1991 led to the Soviet Union, and President Gorbachev, being consigned to the history books. Malcolm Brinkworth explains what really happened during those final days. Just over ...
San Diego Union-Tribune

The Soviet Union came to an end 30 years ago

The Soviet Union ceased to exist as a nation 30 years ago today. On December 25, 1991, Mikhail Gorbachev resigned his post as president of the Soviet Union. The Soviet hammer and sickle flag lowered ...
The New Yorker

When the Soviet Union Freed the Arctic from Capitalist Slavery

In the winter of 1919, the settlement of Anadyr, just below the Arctic circle, was a cluster of cabins: storehouses of fox, bear, and wolverine pelts; the offices of a few fur companies; and the ...
Bloomberg L.P.

Thirty Years Gone, the Soviet Union Is Not Quite Dead

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 ...