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What's a cold war? A historian explains how rivals US and Soviet Union competed off the battlefield

Soviet leader Nikita Krushchev, left, met with U.S. President John F. Kennedy in Vienna in 1961. Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group via Getty Images In the Cold War, was there any actual ...
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History of strategic air and ballistic missile defense

Full text also available online. Shipping list no.: 2009-0036-S. Volume 1: 1945-1955 -- Foreword -- Preface -- Executive summary -- Chapter 1: American And Soviet Strategy: A Comparison -- A: Factors ...
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Maria Limanskaya, Soviet soldier who became a symbol of the Allied victory over Germany in 1945

Maria Limanskaya directing traffic at the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin in 1945 - Evgeny Khaldey Maria Limanskaya, who has died aged 100, was a Soviet traffic “regulator” who in May 1945 became known as ...
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‘Lost Souls’ Review: The Soviet Union’s Unwilling Returnees

As World War II drew to a close, millions of Russians and other Soviet citizens found themselves outside the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. Some were prisoners of war, others civilian forced ...
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80 Years Ago, the Soviets Occupied Japan’s Northern Territories – With US Support

British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt, and Soviet leader Josef Stalin at the Yalta Conference, Feb. 9, 1945. Credit: UK National Archives Eight decadess ago, on ...