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Lukashenko: ‘A hostage of the system that he himself created’
As Belarus votes amid repression, what drives Alexander Lukashenko, the president likely to secure a seventh term.
The National Interest7d
Saddam’s Scud Missiles: The Most Inaccurate Weapons on Earth?
The original Soviet-era missiles performed poorly in accuracy tests, but Iraqi modifications made them far worse.
Snopes.com28d
Music Acts Like Pink Floyd and Donna Summer Banned from Soviet Union in the '80s? Here's the Truth
On Dec. 17, 2024, a post on X showed a photo, purportedly from 1985, that listed Western musical acts allegedly banned in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR). The circulated list ...
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“I Am a Product of the Soviet Union”: Rating Soviet Boxing School Above Western Ones, Dmitry Bivol Explains Why Fighters From USSR Countries Are So Successful
most learned their ropes in old-school boxing academies or from the trainers of the Soviet era. Boxers of Russian origin as well as those from former Soviet Union states have been a dominant force ...
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Putin is repeating a Soviet-era mistake that tanked the Russian economy, Polish foreign minister says
"The Soviet Union took on the West and lost," he said. Sikorski said that Putin "is on the record saying that under Brezhnev, the Soviet Union overspent on the military and bankrupted the country." ...