4 tips for taking care of your Pet Russian
Pet Russians began to make their appearance during the Post-Cold War era. Some pseudoscientists mark the rise in the breed due to a mix of selective breeding and Darwinism. Many…
The US plan to train nuclear suicide bomber paratroopers
It’s an idea as old as nuclear weapons themselves: If you could slip a nuke into a city and detonate it, the enemy would never know it was coming. No missiles detected, no early warning radar, just one day: BOOM. In Cold War lore, these man-portabl…
Lend-lease: What was old is new again, with an ironic twist
As the current war rages between Ukraine and Russia, the conflict has brought back a U.S. pre-World War II concept, lend-lease, which was used to aid Great Britain against Nazi…
The last prisoner of World War II was found in Russia in 2000
In the year 2000, the Russians finally released a prisoner of war. He wasn’t an Afghan Mujahideen, against whom the Russians had fought the most recent war. It was 74-year-old…
How German troops at Stalingrad behaved when they were on leave from the battle
The Battle of Stalingrad was the first turning point for the Eastern Front of World War II. Coming on the heels of Operation Barbarossa, the five-month battle allowed the Soviet…
This is how Russian President Vladimir Putin’s bodyguards operate
In the United States, important political figures are protected primarily by the Secret Service, a department of the U.S. Treasury that is also tasked with investigating crime in the American…
This is why the Soviet Union was one of the most evil governments ever created
Deep-seated leftist revolutionaries defeated Russia’s Nicholas II, bringing the Romanov’s rule of centuries to an end. Consequently, the Bolsheviks founded a socialist government in the Russian territory. Upon Lenin’s death…
America wanted to stop Earth’s rotation during Cold War
A book from a nuclear whistleblower has a stunning claim that the U.S. Air Force once had a plan to throw off Soviet missiles by stopping the rotation of the earth with a thousand rockets.
Yup, the Wile E. Coyote missile defense plan which, th…
You have to see the tombstones in this Soviet military cemetery
Somewhere in an Estonian Forest, causal hikers will come across a sea of red star-adorned metallic strips jutting out of the ground. Like some giant shark jaw, the 9,000-foot area is next to a wooded area, covered with what are actually aircraft tai…
This is the ‘Terminator’ armored vehicle Russia is using to fight in Ukraine
Believe it or not, Russia has learned a thing or two from its military adventures and blunders in the past few decades. One of the things it learned is to…