soviet union
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The Story of ‘White Coke’, the Top Secret Cola Commissioned by a Soviet Marshal After WWII
Over the weekend I learned about White Coke. Not the powder, the drink: a clear version of Coca-Cola that retains the flavour.
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Massive Soviet Ekranoplan Rises From The Caspian Sea
The Ekranoplan is one of the coolest machines designed to demonstrate the technological innovation of the Soviet Union. Part boat and part aeroplane, this massive machine kicked arse. And now an Ekranoplan is being pulled from the Caspian Sea in order to be part of a theme park attraction.
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Chernobyl’s Cars Paint A Fascinating And Grim Picture Of Soviet Life
At this very moment, the highest-rated television show on IMDb, beating out The Wire, Breaking Bad, the first few actually good seasons of Game of Thrones and other worshipped favourites is a bleakly terrifying mini-series about a nuclear disaster that happened 33 years ago in a country that no longer actually exists. The series is…
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US Withdraws From Nuclear Weapons Treaty With Russia, Paving The Way For A New Arms Race
It’s official. US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has announced that the US will withdraw from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) treaty with Russia, a landmark agreement first signed in 1987 that helped protect the world from nuclear war.