During the Cold War, the Soviet Union produced thousands upon thousands of fighter plan... ...plane is a ready-made sculpture, and a tribute to Soviet power. These fighter plane monuments still stand...
http://www.neatorama.com/2013/04/12/MiG-Monuments/
Life as a cosmonaut in the early days of the Soviet space program was difficult. The crew of the Vosk...
http://www.neatorama.com/2013/03/22/Voskhod-2s-Perilous-Landing/
In 1962, at the height of Cold War tensions, Air F... ...ssed it: one of the voices directing Maultsby was Soviet . The USSR had no reason to think that Maultsby wa... ...cans who were also tracking Maultsy knew what the Soviets were thinking, and had to find a way to get him b...
http://www.neatorama.com/2013/03/16/How-the-Aurora-Borealis-Nearly-Started-World-War-III/
The above image, I gather, shows Gandalf (right) r... ...(left) for a perilous adventure. It's from a 1985 Soviet production of The Hobbit.This children's film fea...
http://www.neatorama.com/2012/12/27/The-Soviet-Unions-Bizarre-Version-of-iThe-Hobbiti/
Do you remember Mathias Rust? Hard to believe, but... ...d in the center of Moscow, breaking through every Soviet defense.Once the police had recovered from the sh... ...ing incident became apparent.Rust was arrested by Soviet police and was sentenced to four years in a Soviet...
http://www.neatorama.com/2012/12/08/The-Teenager-Who-Flew-into-Red-Square/
Soviet Union developed guns that could fire underwater. This s...
http://www.neatorama.com/2012/09/06/Underwater-Rifle/
by Michael E.D. Koenig Rosary College, Graduate S... ...lov, the legendary and apparently near-ubiquitous Soviet information scientist. At first glance this might...
http://www.neatorama.com/2012/08/01/on-the-existence-of-mikhailov/
This is a triangular letter. During World War II, Russian soldiers folded their letters home in a way that required no envelope -it's actually quite easy. And it was also easy for censors to open and read them before sen...
http://www.neatorama.com/2011/10/04/triangular-letters/
Soviet leaders yet (and want to), go do that before read...
http://www.neatorama.com/2011/09/01/pattern-baldness-in-russian-leadership/
The following is reprinted from the book Uncle Joh... ...Armstrong stepped onto the moon in July 1969, the Soviet Union categorically denied having a manned lunar progra... ...t had been set up for the purpose of intercepting Soviet communications. But as the analysts studied th... ...were transmitting fro...
http://www.neatorama.com/2011/07/18/the-secret-race-to-the-moon/
