USSR

New York’s new KGB Museum is, suffice it to say, a very strange place. The cinderblock-walled space occupies the…

It’s always the most embarrassing part of a fallen regime. All those statues, no longer relevant. Usually they come…

The 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow were controversial. While its war in Afghanistan had sparked a global boycott…

The Soviet Union had some problems, but one thing they got right was space art. That's why there's nothing better…

After the Soviet Union formed, the new country's first animated film was a 1924 piece of propaganda films. From…

By the latter half of the Space Race between the United States and the USSR, focus had shifted from simply putting…

The canine members of Soviet Union's space program were stars, symbols of the nation's technological future. And so,…

These photographs by Rebecca Bathory make it seem as if the apocalypse has come and gone and the world is in…

Though it played out on the international stage, the arms race between the United States and the USSR took place…

In 1971, a woman in Kazakhstan near the Aral sea died of smallpox. How did she get it? It was harvested,…

Artists from the Soviet Union didn't just imagine a worker's Utopia on Earth. They also thought that the great…

It's almost tragic that Peter Jackson didn't go with this design for Gollum. However, it's completely…

In its heyday, plastic was viewed as a revolutionary advancement—safer and lighter than glass, cheap to manufacture,…

It's not surprising that the first animation to come out the newly formed Soviet Union was anti-capitalist…

Say what you will about urban exploration as a hobby, these guys sure do find some cool shit sometimes. Thank God…

The '80s weren't a great time for those living in the U.S.S.R., although those living in Moscow had it better than…

The Cold War contained a lot of ignominious events for all how participated in it. One of them lingers in…

The twentieth century Soviet space program will always be remembered as one of the greatest in the world. And these…

We recently learned that the NSA is definitely watching us, and as it turns out, our Soviet Big Brother is spying on…

The Internet is a huge place. Some parts of it are awesome, but others are...less so. And falling squarely in that…