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The time in 1978 when a Soviet nuclear-powered satellite crashed into Canada and scattered...
Business Insider via Yahoo News· 6 months agoThe moon rises over a giant statue of Vladimir Ilych Lenin, former Bolshevik leader of the 1917...
Goodbye Lenin? How Russian revolutionary haunts Vladimir Putin 100 years on
The Week via Yahoo News· 5 months agoPainted Matryoshka dolls, also known as Russian nesting dolls, depicting Vladimir Lenin and Vladimir...
On This Day, Aug. 21: U.S. peeps first total solar eclipse in 38 years
United Press International via Yahoo News· 10 months agoA solar eclipse moves across the sky near the crown and torch of the Statue of Liberty on Liberty...
EXPLAINER: Why Russia-Lithuania tensions are rising
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 2 years agoNew tensions between Moscow and the West are rising after Lithuania decided to halt the transport of some goods through its territory to the Russian...
State funding made chess a Cold War game. It could make a comeback.
Washington Post via Yahoo News· 10 months agoIn the summer of 1972, Henry Kissinger made a clandestine phone call. President Richard M. Nixon's...
Charles Milliken: The horrors of anti-semitism
The Daily Telegram via Yahoo News· 5 months agoLast week I wrote of the roots and branches of resurgent anti-semitism. This week, I’d like to follow on with my personal witness of the horrors of...
Notable Tauntonians: William Z. Foster, 'America's Lenin' ran for president 3 times
Taunton Daily Gazette via Yahoo News· 2 years ago“The American Lenin” was born on Weir Street in Taunton. William Z. Foster was the General Secretary of the Communist Party USA from 1945 to 1957. Before he rose to prominence as a Communist ...