Let’s be honest, ‘sex’ was a dirty word in the Soviet Union. Depictions of sex on screen were nearly as rare as Mercedes cars on the roads in the USSR. Even a passionate kiss was taboo, not to mention sexual intercourse of any kind. As a rule, Soviet actors were even too shy ...
Genetically fused to our savage past, we've cut ablood-drenched trail through the centuries. We've destroyed civilizations, waged war and scarred the face of the planet with our progress — and our weapons have grown more powerful. Following the first successful test of a nuclear weapon on J...
The failure of the Great Leap Forward enabled some other powerful people in the CPC to wrest control of some aspects of the government from Mao, at least for a short time. But in 1966, Mao launched another deadly program destined for failure. The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, or sim...
a powerful fighter jet the Soviet Union unveiled in 1967. The MiG-25, commonly known as "the Foxbat," was far superior to the primary U.S. fighter jet at the time, the F-4 Phantom, and in the heart of the Cold War, the Air Force needed a comparable aircraft as soon as possible...
1878 1957 The light bulb was The Soviet Union’s invented around the same time in two different Sputnik 1 was the countries—by Thomas first man-made Edison in the US and space satellite. 1876 Joseph Swan in Britain. Alexander Graham Bell got the first patent for a telephone, although ...
Brest-Litovsk Treaty was a peaceful agreement between Russia and Germany. Besides, Germany had experienced heavy losses because Russia had allied with France and Britain, making them more powerful in World War I. Therefore, with the signing of the Armistice Agreement with the Central Powers, Russia...
In 1917, Russia was crumbling into pieces. The World War I was draining all of Russia’s resources. There was shortage of food throughout the country, which left people starving. At the battlefront, millions of Russian soldiers were dying, they did not possess many of the powerful weapons ...
Despite being banned in the Soviet Union, cannabis was used by young brides on their wedding nights. They mixed lamb's fat with nasha (cannabis) to reduce "the pain of defloration,"Micreported. And on the internet, women have traded recipes for DIY canna-lube for decades. One Reddit user...
He seemed to mourn not the human cost or material tribulations, but the national humiliation of a powerful state simply imploding. He later claimed to have had a sense for some time that the collapse of Soviet power in Europe was inevitable. “But I wanted something different to rise in its...
For more than 45 years, the elephantine superpowers of the former Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) and the United States fought the Cold War — and some might argue the grass was, in this case, the rest of the world. While the Cold War was largely a war of threats, there ...