How a KGB archivist defected with a treasure trove of Soviet secrets — and even his family had no clue

Vladimir Mitrokhin’s amazing story is the subject of a new book, ‘The Spy in the Archive: How One Man Tried to Kill the KGB.’ ...

Inside the CIA’s Most Daring Underwater Heist: Stealing a Soviet Nuclear Sub From the Ocean Floor

Hughes was going to do the unthinkable with it: mine manganese nodules right from the ocean floor. So, when the Glomar sailed ...
Forbes

The Soviet Army Once Shot Its Own Troops For Retreating. The Russian Army Might Do The Same.

A Soviet machine gun team during World War II. After losing as many as 100,000 troops killed and wounded in Ukraine and forcibly drafting 300,000 unwilling men to replace them, the Russian army ...
American Rifleman

Guns Of The Soviet Partisans In World War II

** When you buy products through the links on our site, we may earn a commission that supports NRA's mission to protect, preserve and defend the Second Amendment. ** Partisan bands had a rag-tag ...

Aldrich Ames, CIA officer who spied for Soviet Union, has died at 84

One of the most notorious spies in U.S. history, Aldrich Ames, died on Tuesday at the age of 84. As a CIA officer, Ames sold ...

Soviet-Era TM-62 Landmine Has Become An All-Purpose Weapon In Ukraine

Russia and Ukraine have expanded their use of TM-62 anti-tank landmines, adapting them into drone-dropped munitions and ...
Time

Mikhail Gorbachev Championed ‘Glasnost’ and ‘Perestroika.’ Here’s How They Changed the World

Countless words will be dedicated in the following days to Mikhail Gorbachev, the Soviet leader who died Aug. 30 at the age of 91. But throughout his obituaries, two specific words will likely be ...
autoevolution

Kharkiv V-2: The Soviet Tank Engine That Refused to Go Out of Style for Eight Decades

Let us paint the scene for you. The day is September 1st, 1939, in the Soviet Union, and you're a middle-management engineer working at the Kharkiv Locomotive Factory in Ukraine. While a particular ...
Hetq

Hayk Isakhanyan: Refitting a Soviet Knitwear Factory to Produce Wine Barrels

Yeghegnadzor resident Hayk Isakhanyan, a former Soviet engineer, shows his wine and brandy barrel workshop equipped with ...
Opinion
The Kyiv Independent on MSNOpinion

‘A cult of death’ — Former Soviet dissident on Russia and authoritarianism's global rise

In an authoritarian society, it’s free thinkers who are targeted by those in power. A book, a social media post, a private conversation — anything can be used against those who refuse to conform in a ...
The Atlantic

Soviet Technology

The dominant figure in Soviet technology is a gray-haired fiftyfive-year-old physicist whose task is to introduce reason and order into a bizarre mélange of superiority, mediocrity, and ordinary ...