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2009
Guernica / Chronicles of a Soviet Capitalist, by Irakli Iosebashvili (Part 2 of 2)
by paulantoinem
“Chronicles of a Soviet Capitalist” is presented in this magazine in two parts. Part 1 can be found here. via guernicamag.com ...
Computer Programming - Uncyclopedia, the content-free encyclopedia
by marco
"In Soviet Russia, computers program YOU!" ~ Russian reversal on computer programming
FrontPage Magazine - We're Not the Soviets in Afghanistan
by paulantoinem
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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2008
In Soviet Russia, Lake Contaminates You
by jeanruaud
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 | Access to Life
by Spone
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.
How the Web Was Won: Entertainment & Culture: vanityfair.com
by jeanruaud
& 1 other
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
Vintage Soviet Posters & Soviet Propaganda Posters | International Poster Gallery
by karlcow
Lenin created the first truly modern propaganda machine, and its most colorful, dramatic and original form was the poster.
2007
Boing Boing: CIA secret documents just declassified
by lukeslytalker
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."
Gagarin in Earth orbit
by kenzie
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...
Is Putin Performing a 'Crazy Ivan'? A New Cold War Stirs
by OPINIONIST
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.
