IT’S been nearly three decades since the collapse of the Soviet Union, but the communist nation’s horror history of science lives on. We unearth five of the most terrifying experiments conducted under ...

An old Soviet submarine, model B-307, Tango class, on the grounds of the Avtovaz Technical Museum in Tolyatti, Russia. The B-307 entered service in 1977 and was decommissioned in 2002. At 300 feet in ...

The Cold War and that whole mutual assured destruction thing sure made the space race fun. Every astronaut strapped into a rocket and sent toward the stars was an ideological finger in the chest of ...

The story behind the original MiG Soviet fighter plane is fascinating and traces back to the early years of the Cold War and the Soviet Union's quest for military superiority in the skies. The MiG, ...

The 2B1 "Oka" is Soviet Union's answer to the US' Atomic Annie gun. They were falling behind technologically, which is why they decided to make their own version. It was developed at the height of the ...

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It starts out the same. The voiceover from President Kennedy comes on saying, "I believe that this nation should commit itself to landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the Earth." All ...

I’d make a fort out of sheets and my brother’s sofa/bed cushions (blocky, partially velvet, striped burnt orange and yellow) and lay on the floor (brown linoleum, tattered rug with a fringe, I think?) ...

Reporting from Minsk, Belarus — It’s a long way from Silicon Valley to Minsk. Communist-era statues and murals dot the capital of tiny Belarus, which has clung to Soviet traditions for more than two ...

The initial Soviet tech tree will include the legendary La-5 light fighter and Il-2 ground-attack plane, along with more than 20 other warbirds. Additional planes will be added to the Soviet line as ...