After the USSR dissolved, the former union split into 15 countries, also known as post-Soviet states. In alphabetical order, those are: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Estonia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan. What...
North Korea was established in the 1940s as a buffer between the USSR and the West. While China became a communist state in October 1949, the two countries always had a culturally and ideologically fractious relationship, leading to the Sino-Soviet split in the 1960s. Generally, it was very...
The split had been a result of Stalin’s attempts to force Yugoslavia into strict adherence to Moscow’s authority, a move fiercely resisted by Tito, who championed Yugoslav independence and a uniquely Yugoslav socialist path. The resulting fallout saw Yugoslavia cast out of the Cominform and ...
as the dark and low-calibrated humans and entities try to plunge the world into crisis, or worse, WWIII; and the threats emanating from the aggressive West towards Russia are again on the rise. You’d think humans by now would learn, but they never do. ...
In the latter half of the previous century, however, history seems to have had other ideas. The two ‘Blocs’, the great realms of power split Europe down the middle similarly to how the Triple Entente once calved Imperial Germany and its neighbours out of the rest of the continent, only...
Due to high friction coefficient between the internal surface of the die and the powder, a convenient die design is an assembly of components (split die), which makes it easier to extract the sintered sample from the die and reduce its wear. Where possible, the dies should have rounded ...