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by marco"In Soviet Russia, computers program YOU!" ~ Russian reversal on computer programming
"In Soviet Russia, computers program YOU!" ~ Russian reversal on computer programming
]]>Comparisons between our current efforts in Afghanistan and the Soviet intervention that led to the collapse of the USSR are natural and can be helpful, but only with great care. Below are a numb ...
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The Mayak Chemical Combine is now credited by the Worldwatch Institute as the creator of the "most polluted spot" in history, a mess whose true magnitude is yet to be known.
Russia, by Alex Majoli After the fall of the Soviet Union, a wave of drug use swept over Russia, addicting hundreds of thousands of young people. With heroin injection came the spread of HIV, rapidly infecting more than 1 million Russians. Russia’s is among the world’s most rapidly expanding AIDS epidemics, and frequently, those infected are diagnosed too late to be saved.
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]]>Fifty years ago, in response to the surprise Soviet launch of Sputnik, the U.S. military set up the Advanced Research Projects Agency. It would become the cradle of connectivity, spawning the era of Google and YouTube, of Amazon and Facebook, of the Drudg
Lenin created the first truly modern propaganda machine, and its most colorful, dramatic and original form was the poster.
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]]>The Central Intelligence Agency has just declassified 700 pages of documents about such creepy, strange, and titillating subjects as "cranks, nuts, and screwballs," "Soviet Tactical Laser Weapons," and "USSR-UFO Sightings."
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The Vostok programme (translated as “East”) was a Soviet spaceflight project that succeeded in putting a human - cosmonaut, Yuri Gagarin - into Earth orbit for the first time, this day, 1961. During his Vostok 1 flight, Gagarin famously whi...
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In recent months Putin’s rhetoric against the U.S. - supported by his notion of the U.S.’s overbearing, hegemonic, influence in global affairs - has risen to a near fever pitch. Is this just good old fashioned Soviet paranoia? After all, Vladimir Putin is a product of the Soviet KGB - as an intelligence officer at the highest point of the Cold War.
Just play and feel yourself the communist! ;)
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