The Soviet Union detonated its first atomic bomb, known in the West as Joe-1, on Aug. 29, 1949, at Semipalatinsk Test Site, in Kazakhstan. The Soviets called their first atomic test "First Lightning." ...

For decades Russians have seen no reason to doubt Soviet military historians, who portrayed the Battle of Prokhorovka on 12 July 1943 as a turning-point, where the Red Army seized the initiative ...

cosmonaut Alexei Leonov Peter Gorin. NASA. The Space Race was a battle in the Cold War, a technological battle fought by Soviet and American scientists and engineers, and by Soviet cosmonauts and ...

What are the best WW2 games? The most devastating conflict ... struggle between Axis and Russian forces into its gameplay. Soviet conscripts are abundant but generally poorly equipped and yield ...

Conceptually, it never changes, whether you’re re-fighting WW2 or blowing planes out of the ... Hitler before the outbreak, causing the Soviet Union to become the de facto baddies.

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Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin terrorised his own people, but for the first time a survey suggests that most Russians view him favourably. The respected Levada Center polled Russians aged 18 and ...

On 18 March 1965 Soviet cosmonaut Alexei Leonov became the first person to leave a space capsule and, tethered to it, float freely in orbit – to space-walk. He was pilot of the Voskhod 2 mission ...

In the center of the dome overhead there is a burning star — a replica of the richest of Soviet World War II decorations — the Order of Victory. On a pedestal in the center of the room ...

He oversaw the war machine that helped defeat Nazism and was the supreme ruler of the Soviet Union for a quarter ... Red Army and is captured early on in WW2. When the Germans propose to free ...

Soviet World War II victory flags are appearing in Russian-occupied Ukrainian towns, CNN reported, as Western intelligence says Russia likely wants to secure major progress in its invasion ahead ...

The Israeli military confirmed that Yahya Sinwar, the leader of Hamas, was killed on Wednesday. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel said he spoke with President Biden about working to ...