Etiket: Soviet
Crossing IJssel had to be a bridge too far for Soviet army
The IJssellinie in Olst consisted of 750 small and large waterworks to be able to transform the IJssel into a real water curtain.Statue Harry Cock / de Volkskrant Upon seeing…
The border dispute between Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan, a Soviet time bomb, now explodes
Refugees from Batken, on the Kyrgyz-Tajik border, gather in Boz-Adir, southwestern Kyrgyzstan, on September 17, 2022.Image AP Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan have been disagreeing over their common border for over thirty…
Mikhail Gorbachev Accidentally Destroyed the Soviet Empire
Thomas von der DunkSeptember 11, 202210:00 Putin once called the dissolution of the Soviet Union ‘the greatest political catastrophe of the twentieth century’. He is therefore doing everything possible to…
Gorbachev, the ‘new Soviet man’ who ended up burying the USSR
“an idealist“who aspired to recover” the initial impulse of the revolution” but who gradually “realized” that his ideas “were not applicable”. An individual who embodied the “utopia of the new…
Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev passed away | Abroad
Updated 11 min ago1 hour ago in ABROAD Mikhail Gorbachev in 2002. ANP / Mary Evans Picture Library Ltd. Moscow – Former Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev has died at…
Soviet monument in Latvia torn down despite protest | Abroad
It is a 79 meters high work from 1985 to commemorate the victory of the Soviet army over Nazi Germany. According to a reporter from the French AFP news agency…
Unprecedented Russian Missile Offensive in Ukraine: Even Old Soviet Missiles Deployed
Firefighters at the bombed shopping center in Kremenchuk.Image ANP / EPA According to the British Ministry of Defense, the missile shower is intended, among other things, to thwart supplies to…
Russian news website: Former Soviet leader Gorbachev (91) has kidney disease | Abroad
Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev is suffering from kidney disease, according to the Russian news website Mash. The 91-year-old would receive hemodialysis, a treatment in which a machine purifies the…
ISS space station has to make way for debris from destroyed Soviet satellite | Science
The International Space Station had to make way for scrap from a Soviet satellite destroyed by the Russians seven months ago on Thursday evening. This was reported by the head…
REPORTING. Just now, ‘Mere’, the first Russian supermarket on Belgian soil, opens: “As if we have flashed back to the Soviet era with a time machine” | Inland
It’s like being flashed back to the old Soviet regime with a time machine: that’s what a visit to Mere in Opwijk feels like as soon as you step inside.…