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Behind the Iron Curtain, the Soviets weren’t just building tanks; they were secretly crafting a sports car meant to rival the ...
A new book raises the specter that corporate offshoring of manufacturing may have undermined America's lead in technological ...
These days, we are celebrating the decisive contribution of the Soviet Union to the victory over Hitler’s Germany and the liberation of Europe from Nazism. Lest we forget that nearly 90% of all ...
There are various reasons for the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 ... Ford Motors has already had to close a factory in China because of a lack of magnets from Chinese producers.
The old and funny song from 50 years ago helped to link the former Soviet Union antisemitism to the present day’s hatred of Jews in Europe, US and Canada. An e-mail containing a song ...
Mr. Patterson, who was born in Moscow and spent most of his life in Russia, came to Washington after the collapse of the Soviet Union and to live closer to his father’s relatives. His one high ...
And throughout the 1970s and ’80s, she thumbed her nose at the Soviet Union, smuggling contraband across its borders and helping to resettle Soviet Jews who weren’t allowed to leave.
The Soviet Union’s vast industrial capacity constructed roughly 100,000 units of the tank throughout its life, and it was widely exported to the developing world. Developed in the late 1940s and ...
Nuclear Lake was formed on 23 February 1971 when the Soviet Union simultaneously fired three nuclear devices buried 127m (417ft) underground. The yield of each device was 15 kilotonnes (about the ...
The Soviet Union had been launching Kosmos spacecraft ten years before Kosmos 482. Kosmos 482 was a sister probe to the successful Venera . Since then, dozens of other missions have been launched ...
How they became spies for the Soviet Union is a story emblematic of 1970s Southern California, where the state’s massive Cold War aerospace industry collided with its youthful anti-establishment ...