The 1986 nuclear disaster in Chernobyl — now known by its Ukrainian spelling of Chornobyl — has echoes today during a violent ...

During one very unusual Cold War drill, a Soviet Su-7 Fitter attack jet delivered a live tactical nuclear weapon in an end-to ...

Despite successfully reaching friendly territory, Devitaev and his fellow escapees were initially mistrusted by Soviet authorities and faced imprisonment and penal assignments. Over time, their ...

The Soviet Union stretched across Asia and Europe and ruled more than 15 republics. Unfortunately, the era of centralized control came crashing down in 1991. This resulted in redrawn borders and ...

On March 11, 1990, Lithuania became the first Soviet Republic to declare its independence from the Soviet Union. The U.S.S.R. did not accept Lithuania’s independence and imposed an economic blockade ...

He was imprisoned for calling attention to the practice of declaring dissidents mentally ill. He later led efforts to ...

On the facade of an apartment block in Tajikistan's capital Dushanbe, a giant mosaic depicting cosmonauts and engineers ...

For decades, researchers, political leaders and advocacy groups have worked to uncover the story of the explosion ...

In the spring of 1945, the U.S. Navy quietly handed over 149 warships to the Soviet Union at a remote Alaskan outpost, ...

Hitler invaded the Soviet Union because conquest in the East was central to Nazi ideology and ambition.

A left-wing streamer who Democrats are flocking to for the 2026 midterm elections bemoaned the fall of the Soviet Union ...