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Vintage photos show what life looked like behind the Iron Curtain
INSIDER via Yahoo News· 12 hours agoLife there was restricted, but as its leaders changed, Western influence began to reach residents....
The US secretly sent communist-friendly Coca-Cola to a Soviet general in a bid to maintain good ties...
Business Insider via Yahoo News· 10 hours agoSee more stories on Insider's business page. As World War II ended and the Iron Curtain fell over...
Putin and Xi further their embrace to defy U.S.-led pressure
NPR· 7 hours agoIt was Putin's first trip abroad since beginning a fifth term in office following a pro-forma...
Weapons: Ukrainian Innovations
Strategy Page· 6 hours agoSeptember 3, 2023: Ukraine has long been a major developer and manufacturer of weapons and military equipment. Before 1991, when Ukraine was a part of the Soviet ...
Cuba laments collapse of iconic sugar industry
BBC via Yahoo Finance· 3 hours agoToday, though, he readily admits he has never seen the sugar industry as broken and depressed as it is now - not even when the Soviet Union's lucrative...
Opinion: Extremists against Ukraine
Idaho State Journal· 13 hours agoAfter the collapse of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s, Ukraine was left with the world’s third-largest nuclear arsenal and a concomitantly huge...
Military spending pushes Russian economic growth up
AFP via Yahoo Finance· 11 hours agoRussia's economy grew 5.4 percent in the first quarter of 2024, official statistics published Friday showed, as President Vladimir Putin denied military...
Georgia defies EU and 'returns to past' with Russia-style law that sparked mass protests
USA TODAY via Yahoo News· 2 days agoA new bill, aimed at stifling dissent, has sparked the biggest protests in the Eastern European...
'As Long As It Takes': Georgia's Gen Z Leading Street Protests
International Business Times· 17 hours agoCritics say the law, which was passed this week and requires advocacy groups and media outlets to...
Slovakia has largely charted its own course since the fall of the Soviet Union.
New York Times· 2 days agoSlovakia is one of two nations born out of the former Czechoslovakia amid the dissolution of the ...
