Questions tagged [soviet-union]
for questions regarding the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union
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Did the USSR have 21 thousand tanks at the beginning of WW2?
In the Icebreaker series by Viktor Suvorov, he says that at the beginning of World War 2, the Soviet Union had roughly 7 times as many tanks as Nazi Germany, which had 3000-4000 tanks.
I can't ...
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Did NASA invest a million dollars in the research of a space pen, when the USSR simply used a pencil?
I encountered this picture of the "Russian space pen" from the MIT Museum gift shop
When NASA first started sending astronauts into space, they realized that the ball-point pen would not ...
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Is this video of the Soviet Dog Revival Experiment real?
In this video a dog's head is brought back to life by artificially injecting blood and air. The dog's head reacted to sound and touch and used its tongue to taste.
I am not skeptic about its ...
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Did Stalin kill more than 10 million People?
There are many sources claiming that Stalin killed between 20 and 60 million people. A few articles with this claim:
In February 1989, two years before the fall of the Soviet Union, a research paper ...
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Was Greenpeace ever sponsored by KGB?
I've heard the claim as urban legend many times. Allegedly in 1970s KGB has sponsored various Western "anti-war" movements, especially the ones that could hinder Western nuclear tests. Fact is ...
