Welcome to the real Soviet Union – primitive, brutal and racist

For most of us in the West, until the fall of the Berlin Wall “Russia” was synonymous with the Soviet Union. Among the 15 ...

Exit Stalin — reforms and repression in the postwar, pre-collapse USSR

Mark Smith’s impressive history surveys life in the Soviet Union, and its advances and failures from Khrushchev to Gorbachev ...
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What Life in the Soviet Union Was Like

Here's the standard high school history class summary of the Soviet Union: The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) was a communist state from 1922 to 1991 and was a big rival of the US from ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin's Grandpa Was A Chef To Rasputin, Lenin, & Stalin - Did You Know?

Spiridon Ivanovich Putin, born in 1879, was a notable Russian chef whose life spanned the tumultuous periods of the ...
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Holy Cow History | White Coca-Cola for a Red general

What should have been a brief trip 74 years ago this month turned into a disaster-movie-scale nightmare. Think of it as “The ...
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How people survived everyday life in the Soviet Union

This video explores the life hacks that helped people cope with the hardships of Soviet Russia. See how residents of the USSR ...