When the US astronauts planted the American flag on the surface of the moon in 1969 and stated 'we came in peace for all mankind', the leaders of the Soviet Union realized that they were not considered a part of 'all mankind' in this context.2 In a world that was divided into two ...
Jewish citizens seeking to emigrate from the Soviet Union first obtained Israeli visas, and then apply would to the United States Embassy for refugee status and seek American citizenship However, in 1989 Mikhail Gorbachev lifted restrictions on emigration for Jews, and the United States stopped treati...
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A former country of northern Eurasia with coastlines on the Baltic and Black Seas and the Arctic and Pacific Oceans. Established by the union (1922) of the Russian SFSR (proclaimed after the Russian Revolution of 1917) and various other soviet republics in the former Russian Empire, the USSR...
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The United States responded by accelerating its own space program, and just months after Sputnik, an American satellite went into orbit. In September 1959, the Soviets upped the ante considerably with the announcement that a rocket carrying the flag of the Soviet Union had crashed onto the moon...
Interestingly, at the same time that Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin of Apollo 11 were unfurling the American flag on the moon in 1969, the Soviet Union’s Luna 15 probe crashed there in a failed attempt to return soil samples. This incident represented another milestone: The first space ...
The North Korean state is often described as communist or Stalinist, and it is true that it exhibits many of the identifying features of classic mid-twentieth-century soviet grimness. However, the American academic and writerB.R. Myersmakes a convincing case, in his bookThe Cleanest Race, tha...
II. It warns that contemporary Ukraine is tainted by Nazi influences and rampant corruption – a message designed to resonate with American ideals. The narrator says:“Honor does matter. Be worthy of our grandfathers. Raise their flag high,”as a veteran CIA officer decides to contact the ...