Metallica playing at 'Monsters of rock' Moscow 4 months before the Dissolution of Soviet Union 1991
Dissolution of the Soviet Union (c. 1991, Colourised)
[Serious] People who grew up in the Soviet Union: what was hardest to get used to upon the Dissolution of the USSR?
What happened to Soviet prisoners after the dissolution of the Soviet Union?
Particularly political prisoners, were they exonerated or kept in prison?
Dissolution of the Soviet Union 1991
October 30, 1991, The XB-20 takes off from Davis-Monthan AFB performing its last tests before the Soviet Union Dissolution. Having a top speed of Mach 2.5
TIL of the Correspondence Chess Olympiad, an international chess tournament where players send their turns by mail. Because matches can take years, the Soviet Union and East Germany still won their last medal five years after their dissolution.
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During the fall of communism and the dissolution of the Soviet Union, a dismantled statue of Joseph Stalin is dragged through the streets of Budapest, 1990.
Did the United States reduce the size of its military after the end of the Cold War and/or the dissolution of the Soviet Union?
I've been reading a little bit of Chalmers Johnson lately and want to know more about "America as Empire".
First steps initiating the dissolution of the Soviet Union (1990)
"The Soviet Union's Afterlife." An analysis of the dissolution of the Soviet Union and how it led to Russia as it is today.
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What was the predominant reaction of the Russian public to the dissolution of the Soviet Union?
I find this topic fascinating. After decades of working to establish dominance against the USA, and then struggling to merely stay alive in its final years, the USSR collapses. If I'm an average Russian citizen in 1991, how does this information come to me, and how would I react to it? And how would years of absorbing Soviet-controlled media affect my impression of the end of the USSR?
During the dissolution of the Soviet Union, was there ever any discussion within Tajik circles of joining Afghanistan?
China’s Chernobyl/Communism and coverups - six years after Chernobyl the Soviet Union dissolution
How long has coronavirus existed. It was years before we became aware of the Soviet Unions Chernobyl coverup and lies. How much and how long will it be on the conditions far this virus. Chernobyl 1986 and 6 years later the dissolution of the Soviet Union. What’s in store for China ?
Born today : December 19th - Leonid Brezhnev, General Secretary of the USSR, "During (his) rule, the global influence of the Soviet Union grew dramatically", "criticized for marking the beginning of an era of economic and social stagnation that eventually led to the dissolution of the Soviet Union"
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Dissolution of soviet union (1991)
Yak-141 Freestyle, Soviet supersonic VTOL design, had naval trials, canceled due to dissolution of the USSR
Peace monument Karlstad, Sweden: The peace monument was raised in remembrance of the peaceful union dissolution between Sweden and Norway in 1905. The statue was unveiled in 1955, fifty years after the dissolution.
Ruslan Khasbulatov was the chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet in 1991. He was in a visit to Japan during the dissolution of the USSR. He declared later that he would have easily dissuaded Kravchuk (Ukraine's president) by yelling at him: "Are you going to become a traitor at this age?"
In what ways are the failures of the Soviet Union or Maoist China necessarily the failures of communism?
In other words, are the tragedies of these two instances of communism indicative of communism as a concept? People talk about communism as if they are, but I’ve never been entirely convinced
I don’t know if this is the right sub for this but I was banned from r/communism for basically nothing so idk where else to ask this question
TIL of Matvey Kuzmin, known as 'Lone Wolf', the oldest person to be awarded Hero of the Soviet Union. During WW2, a Nazi battalion paid him to lead them to the rear of Russian defenses. Instead, he led the battalion directly into an ambush. Realizing his betrayal, the Nazis killed him. He was 83.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mat…
Produced from 1958 -1970, this car was distributed free of charge to handicapped people in the Soviet union, stock 10 hp
Who’s responsible for the fall of the Soviet Union?
Everyone. They all share the blame.
Today is the union dissolution day of Sweden-Norway - here's the original flag.
A brief history of the Soviet union
TIL there was a comic book series chronicling an alternate Superman timeline where he lands in the Soviet Union instead of the United States.
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Which of the Russian warlords should I play to restore the Soviet Union?
There's like 10 socialist/communist warlords, which one is the best/legitimate successor to the USSR/most fun?
TIL that in 1933 6000 people were deported by the Soviet Union to an island in the middle of Siberia and were abandoned there without food or shelter. Within three weeks most of the prisoners were dead due to the widespread episodes of cannibalism. The island became known as “Cannibal Island”.
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Flag of the Soviet Union (1918-1991)
"Scotland sees its future in the European Union despite Britain's vote to leave, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said on Friday [24 June 2016], raising the specter of a new Scottish independence vote and the possible dissolution of the United Kingdom."
reuters.com/article/us-br…
In 1991 the Soviet Union collapsed, the Soviet archives were opened and historians had access to a lot of previously secret information. Did anything found in the archives radically change the perception historians had of certain events? Did they find anything new they had never known about before?
For anyone with firsthand experience - What was it really like living behind the Iron Curtain, and how much of what Americans are taught about the Soviet Union is real vs. propaganda?
Who was the least shitty leader of the Soviet Union?
In Blade Runner 2049, there is a virtual ad for a ballerina show produced by the CCCP; also known as the USSR. This means that the Soviet Union did not collapse in 1991 and continues to thrive in the futuristic year of 2049.
TIL that during the Cold War, the CIA could identify KGB cars in the Soviet Union because they used windscreen wipers compared to the rest of the public who didn’t. The KGB continued to use windscreen wipers to maintain a visual on their targets. Especially during bad weather. Link P219
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The starting tree of the Soviet Union in The Lost Generation (Discord in comments)
VLAD’S BITCH: The untold story of a rising senator’s honeymoon to the Soviet Union and his lifelong quest to avenge the failed state.
TDIH: February 3, 1966, The Soviet Union's Luna 9 becomes the first spacecraft to make a soft landing on the Moon, and the first spacecraft to take pictures from the surface of the Moon. Illustration: The approximate locations of the landing sites of Luna 8 and Luna 9 are shown as 8 and 9.
China’s Chernobyl/communism and coverups -six years after Chernobyl the Soviet Union’s dissolution.
How long has coronavirus existed. It was years before we became aware of the Soviet Unions Chernobyl coverup and lies. How much and how long will it be on the conditions far this virus. Chernobyl 1986 and 6 years later the dissolution of the Soviet Union. What’s in store for China ?
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