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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.
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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.
First Soviet electronic arcade game (80s) made in SW Flash
by stassius
Just play and feel yourself the communist! ;)
2006
Conservative Students to Display "ACLU Nativity Scene"
by jasontromm
(via)
The Young Conservatives of Texas -- University of Texas Chapter announced today that they will be displaying an “ACLU Nativity Scene” on the West Mall of the University of Texas campus on Monday and Tuesday, December 4th and 5th. The group’s intent is to raise awareness on the extremity of the ACLU, and bring to light its secular-progressive efforts to remove Christmas from the public sphere. The display, the first of its kind in the nation, will feature characters that are quite a bit different than the standard crèche.
“We’ve got Gary and Joseph instead of Mary and Joseph in order to symbolize ACLU support for homosexual marriage, and of course there isn’t a Jesus in the manger,” said Chairman Tony McDonald. “The three Wise Men are Lenin, Marx, and Stalin because the founders of the ACLU were strident supporters of Soviet style Communism.”
