If your immediate answer is "to create the false i...  ...in a 2017 Russia Beyond article that in 1967, the Soviet government created the country's first and only a...  ...country's first and only advertising agency. The Soviet dictator Leonid Brezhnev ordered that this agency...  ...i Reklaamfilm (ERF), focus o...

The Soviet Union operated pretty much in isolation from the rest o...  ...When they were revealed later, the photographs of Soviet machinery, vehicles, and architecture seemed to c...

Back in the 1950s, airports had to find more power...  ...rful tractors to tow larger airliners around. The Soviet Union came up with a car for that purpose, a truly rema...

The Soviet Union founded quite a few towns during the Cold War tha...

The Cold War was a game of one-upmanship in the ar...  ...hen the freedom to spend separated Americans from Soviets , consuming — everything from ranch homes to...  ...ed conversation where President Richard Nixon and Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev stood in a model home&rs...  ...would come out on top bec...

On October 30, 1961, the Soviet Union tested the largest nuclear bomb ever made, the Ts...  ...target. As it was, Tsar Bomba turned its creator, Soviet physicist Andrei Sakharov, completely against nuc...

Fifty years ago today, the US and the USSR came cl...  ...ed.Air Force officials initially assumed that the Soviet Union was responsible. Such radar jamming is considered...

During the Cold War, the world went MAD, which mea...  ...round today, as far as we know. In the 1980s, the Soviet Union developed a "doomsday device" they called Сис�...  ...about Dead Hand until 1993, after the fall of the Soviet Union . What kind of deterrence is that?If you want a do...  ...Americans laun...

Newcomb Mott was a 27-year-old world traveler in 1...  ...rkenes, Norway. The border between Norway and the Soviet Union was temptingly near. Norwegians crossed the borde...  ...w prisoners or by government agents, although the Soviet government officially ruled his death a suicide....

The Soviet Union produced millions vehicles every year in the 1950...  ...sn't what you'd expect of a typical hunter of the Soviet Union , has no idea where to point the gun. Maybe he did...  ...l find a wide variety of styles in the roundup of Soviet car ads at Vintage Everyd...