How the KGB trained its ‘illegal’ sleeper agents
Contrary to what some science fiction and superhero movies might have you believe, the KGB – the Soviet Union’s state security and intelligence service – didn’t grow its agents in…
This Green Beret spent his life fighting communists in three different armies
As the Red Army pressed into Finland, their progress was continuously slowed. Their soldiers were being harassed by Finnish infiltrators before they could reach the frontline. Even the Soviet commando teams dispatched to hunt the evasive Finns were …
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…
The Soviets fired this secret heavy cannon while in orbit
If you’ve ever wanted to be a space shuttle door gunner, pay attention: the weapon you might be operating could look something like this monster – the only projectile weapon designed for and fired in orbit around the Earth. Of course, it was the…
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…
Why Russia’s Typhoon-Class submarines are so massive
In 1981, both the United States and the Soviet Union commissioned a new class of submarine. Both were nuclear powered and nuclear armed. The United States launched the USS Ohio,…
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…
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 why Soviet cosmonauts carried a shotgun into space
Space is getting more and more dangerous these days, with Russia and China standing up to weaponize space. Of course, astronauts and other space travelers have carried weapons into orbit before, though they may never have carried anything like this …
How North Korea was built and molded by the Soviet Union
In isolated North Korea, schoolchildren are taught that the founder of North Korea, Kim Il-Sung, was born in a log cabin atop sacred Mount Paektu, the highest mountain on the…