Rebel comrades: How Russian imperial nostalgia found its Confederate soul
Russia's Kremlin loyalists and America's MAGA faithful have a lot in common — and they're both enslaved by the past ...
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Boris Spassky, Soviet chess champion and Cold War symbol, dies at 88
The Soviet Union boasted an unbroken streak of world chess champions that stretched back to 1948. It seemed unimaginable that there could be a serious challenger hailing from any other nation.
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Ukraine's capital to remove Soviet symbols by late August
The Kiev city council has ruled to strip all Communist symbols of buildings in the Ukrainian ... "Any imagery of the main state emblem of the Soviet Union, the hammer and sickle, and of [Bolshevik ...
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Will the US collapse like the Soviet Union did?
"You're next," said a Russian historian I interviewed in 1993 about the Soviet Union's collapse in late 1991. I was an American student in St. Petersburg, and he was referring to the United States.
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Ukrainian official suggests turning Soviet monument into LGBT symbol
The Peoples' Friendship Arch in Kiev was unveiled in 1982 to commemorate the 60th Anniversary of the Soviet Union and the reunification ... Arch in Kiev into a symbol of the LGBT movement ...
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Life-size Lenin among Soviet art up for auction
A life-size portrait of Soviet Union founder Vladimir Lenin and other paintings from the former state are going up for auction. Described as "monumental", they will be up for sale at Wotton ...