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A Chinese joke about the USSR

by cringeyjokesman July 1, 2022, 9:21 am

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My problems with researching the elections & government of USSR

by HistoryBuff June 6, 2022, 9:19 pm

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As leader of the USSR, Gorbachev was allowed to conduct weddings

by cringeyjokesman April 18, 2022, 6:50 pm

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TIL that cybernetics was highly popular in the USSR in the 1960s and there were serious plans to run the soviet economy with a network of super-computers.

by whatilearned March 5, 2022, 2:32 pm

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What are some capitalist countries that the USSR had decent relations with to counter the US during the cold war? The US had decent relations with explicitly communist states like the PRC or Yugoslavia as they were outside the Soviet bloc. Did the USSR have some equivalent?

by HistoryBuff March 4, 2022, 9:07 am

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Why Didn’t The Allies Attack the USSR After WW2?

by HistoryBuff March 3, 2022, 2:48 pm

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If the USSR gets back together

by cringeyjokesman February 26, 2022, 4:40 pm

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TIL Helsinki, Finland was used to film many Cold War era Hollywood movies when filming in the USSR was not possible. Examples include The Kremlin Letter (1970), Reds (1981), and Gorky Park (1983).

by whatilearned February 21, 2022, 12:40 am

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TIL that in 1959, an American pilot returning from a USSR recon flew his B-47 nuclear bomber beneath the Mackinac Bridge in Michigan: 75 feet above the water, 50 feet below the bridge’s belly, and all at 350 miles per hour. The Air Force never let him pilot a jet again.

by whatilearned February 16, 2022, 7:58 am

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TIL the Party of Communists of the Republic of Moldova won multiple elections, forming a majority government from 2001 to 2009. Communists rarely achieve peaceful transfers of power in multiparty democracies; Moldova is the only European state to be governed by communists since the fall of the USSR.

by whatilearned February 5, 2022, 3:32 am

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TIL that Spain was pro-Hitler and provided volunteer forces to help Hitler fend off the USSR

by whatilearned February 3, 2022, 1:24 am

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TIL about the “Lost Cosmonauts” conspiracy theory that theorizes that, before Yuri Gagarin, the USSR sent people into space with no way of getting them back. Alleged recordings intercepted by two brothers over radio frequencies include distressed cosmonauts audibly suffocating to death/burning up.

by whatilearned January 29, 2022, 4:21 am

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