On This Day: Communists give up monopoly of Soviet politics
Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev issued a series of reforms and the Communist Party gave up its 70-year monopoly of political ...
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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.
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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 ...
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Ukraine’s Artillery Nightmare is Only Beginning
Russia’s 2S7, like so many systems in use by the Russian military today in Ukraine, has its origins in the old Soviet Union. During the Cold War, the 2S7s were designed to deploy a small nuclear ...