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Soviet collapse taught Russians the danger of being a messianic superpower. Biden makes it clear America hasn’t learnt the lesson

The author Fyodor Dostoevsky had a grand vision for the country. Russia, he believed, would lead the West back to…

3 years ago

David Dushman, Soviet Army veteran & last surviving Auschwitz liberator who rammed death camp’s fence with his tank, dies aged 98

Dushman died in Munich, Germany, where he had lived for the last two decades, on Saturday. While he was celebrated internationally…

3 years ago

Elon Musk heaps praise on Soviet space program at Moscow educational conference & reveals his admiration for Russian pioneers

Speaking to the New Knowledge event via video link on Friday, the creator of SpaceX noted his reverence for Sergey…

3 years ago

27 million Soviet citizens lost their lives fighting the Nazis, Westerners comparing USSR to Hitler’s Germany insult their memory

It has apparently become a yearly tradition for some bad actors to try and force us to unnecessarily debate simple…

3 years ago

Western insistence on Russia paying Ukraine rent to use old Soviet-era gas pipelines drives Moscow away from EU & towards China

The reality is that attempts to make it conditional that Russian gas exports to the rest of Europe must move…

3 years ago

Soviet victims of Nazis were long ‘forgotten group,’ German president Steinmeier says ahead of Buchenwald liberation anniversary

Buchenwald was one of the longest-operating and largest facilities, where people deemed undesirable by the Nazi government were worked to…

3 years ago

‘Russiagate’ lives on: Donald Trump was a Soviet spy recruited decades ago by KGB, according to conspiracy-loving Western media

Yuri Shvets, a former major in the Soviet Union’s KGB spy service – which disbanded 30 years ago – has…

3 years ago

Swiss scientists announce breakthrough in 60-year-old Soviet mystery, claiming Dyatlov Pass skiers caused own deaths in avalanche

For six decades, amateur detectives and media analysts alike have speculated about how nine young hikers died in mysterious circumstances…

3 years ago

America’s fantasy that China will soon collapse like the Soviet Union did is based on arrogance and ideology, not facts and reason

2020 was a year to forget, but it was also immensely geopolitically significant. The outbreak of Covid-19 was a world-changing…

3 years ago

George Blake, famous Soviet double agent who fled to Russia after London prison break, dies at 98

“We have received bitter news, the legendary George Blake is gone,” SVR spokesman Sergey Ivanov told Russian media on Saturday. …

3 years ago