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"Mobituaries": Fifth-grader Samantha Smith, "America's Littlest Diplomat"
CBS News via Yahoo News· 1 year agoIn 1982 a young girl wrote to Soviet leader Yuri Andropov voicing her worries about the prospect of...
Old men helped cause the Soviet Union's collapse. Historians say it's a warning sign for the United...
INSIDER via Yahoo News· 1 year agoWally McNamee/Getty; Photo 12/Getty; Brandon Bell /Getty; Michael M. Santiago/Getty; Anna...
On This Day, Feb. 13: Soviet Union expels dissident Alexander Solzhenitsyn
United Press International via Yahoo News· 4 months agoThe body of writer and former Soviet dissident Alexander Solzhenitsyn lies in state in the Academy...
By disclosing his cancer, Charles breaks centuries of royal tradition. But he shares only so much
Associated Press via AOL· 4 months agoIn British history, the secrecy of the monarch's health has always reigned supreme. The palace's...
Mikhail Gorbachev, Whose Drive To Transform The Soviet Union Ended The Cold War, Has Died
BuzzFeed News via Yahoo News· 2 years agoHis democratizing drive made him the toast of diplomatic circles and a cult hero in the West, the...
Russian Support for Putin’s War in Ukraine Is Hardening
Bloomberg via Yahoo News· 1 year ago(Bloomberg) -- As Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine struggles into its second year, his...
Fallen colossus: USSR's terror, triumphs began 100 years ago
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 1 year ago“Anyone who doesn’t regret the passing of the Soviet Union has no heart,” he said. Five years after...
Today in History: August 25, deaths of McCain and Kennedy
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 2 years agoOn Aug. 25, 2018, Sen. John McCain of Arizona, who had spent years as a prisoner of war in Vietnam before a 35-year political career that took him to the Republican presidential nomination, ...