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Georgia's Tea Growers Work to Revive an Industry That Collapsed With the Soviet Union
Under the Soviet Union, which prioritised quantity of production above all, Georgian tea mainly acquired a poor reputation for quality. Guria’s fields grew mostly simple black teas, with bushes ...
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The Soviet Union Built a Laser Pistol for 1980s Space Battles
Ultimately, the laser pistol’s practicality was limited by its low power, the fragility of space environments, and the ...
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50 years after a historic handshake in space, the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project's legacy still resonates
The first joint space mission between the United States and Russia (then the Soviet Union) docked in Earth orbit half a ...
The Communist Politburo once ruled the Soviet Union with an iron fist. Its last member has now died
The death of Vadim Medvedev marks the quiet end of an era when Communist apparatchiks ruled the Soviet Union from behind closed doors. A look back at the Politburo – an opaque, feared body that ran an ...
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What Putin Learned From the Soviet Collapse | Foreign Affairs
When the Soviet Union dissolved 30 years ago this month, on December 25, 1991, its end followed decades of economic dysfunction. Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, hoping to implement reforms, referred ...
Oriskany pilot fought seven Soviet MiGs, but mission stayed classified for 50 years
Retired Navy Capt. Royce Williams fought in one of the most incredible battles in aviation history and lived to tell the tale ...
Martin Cruz Smith, Best-Selling Author of ‘Gorky Park,’ Dies at 82
He startled critics, readers and the book industry in 1981 with a novel set in the Soviet Union that had a flawed detective ...