Tag: USSR
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I Serve the Soviet Union: Story of Men Who Cleaned Up Chernobyl
On April 26,1986 when reactor number 4 of Viktor I. Lenin or commonly known as Chernobyl power plant exploded, many were sleeping safely just 10 Kilometres away in Pripyat city. The Pripyat City committee comprising of Chernobyl plant directors Viktor Bryukhanov and Nikolai Fomin tried to push the matter under the rag. They initially reported…
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Putin’s Russia and the Ghost of the Romanovs
Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and his family, the Romanovs, were murdered 100 years ago on July 17, 1917, by Marxist revolutionaries. What does this anniversary mean for Vladimir Putin? Revolution came to Russia in February 1917, a month later in March the king of the Russian Empire Tsar Nicholas II abdicated the throne. With the revolution in many…
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All The Presidents’ Men: Cold War, Space Rockets and Race to the Moon
50 Years On, A Race to the moon that would push both USSR and US until now for technological gains along with best wishes to India’s Chandrayaan 2 The period of great hostility between USA and the former Soviet Union post World War II in 1945 till Soviet Union’s disintegration in 1991, is referred…
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