On October 12th, 1964, the USSR launched Voskhod 1 with three cosmonauts crammed into a modified spacecraft stripped of ...

When the Soviet Union sealed off West Berlin in June 1948, more than 2 million people were suddenly cut off from food, fuel, ...

On March 9, 1961, the Soviet Union launched Sputnik 9. [‘On This Day in Space’ Video Series on Space.com] This mission was a ...

Before the first human could fly into space, the Soviet Union sent a total of 48 dogs into space to gain experience. Not every animal survived.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On February 22, 1966, two Soviet space dogs launched on a mission that would set a new record for the longest spaceflight. Veterok ...

The 1960s were a wild time for the CIA. When they weren’t dosing each other with acid or trying to use exploding cigars to ...

Stacker compiled data on all Western films from the 2010s and ranked them according to their Metascores (out of 100).

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Three months before taking power in 1949, Mao Tse-tung wrote of the solidarity required for the Chinese people's revolution, ...

Throughout the Cold War, military planners on both sides of the Iron Curtain built weapons designed to deter the unthinkable. Yet several of those systems came dangerously close to coming active and ...

As Ian Buruma shows in “Stay Alive,” his crisply told and uncomfortably relevant history of wartime Berlin, they feed off the ...

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