In the 1970s, the USSR was on a mission to dominate the world of heavy-lift helicopters, and they succeeded spectacularl ...

Film director Karen Shakhnazarov said he was in favor of America's current leadership as it weakened Moscow's "main adversary." ...

In the mid-1960s they even started work on converting the Mil Mi-6 — the USSR’s largest and fastest helicopter — to carry paying passengers. Unfortunately this never got past a single ...

Mixed Signals,” by Rebecca Charbonneau, explores an unusual period of Soviet-U.S. cooperation in the hunt for aliens.

After all, the USSR was an ally at this time. The Soviets installed governments in a group of countries around themselves for protection and exploitation - a number of Eastern European states were ...

Boris Spassky, the Soviet chess grandmaster who learned to play as an orphan – eventually becoming the informal face of the USSR in the politically-infused "match of the century" against American ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin’s desire to reclaim the territory of the former USSR and his aggressive military buildup and propaganda efforts are similar to those of Hitler. The push for ...