Alexander Solzhenitsyn in West Germany following his deportation from the Soviet Union in February 1974 Public domain via Wikimedia Commons By 1973, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn was already “Russia ...
The formation of the Soviet Union united several republics under a single government, fundamentally altering the geopolitical dynamics of the 20th century. Over the next several decades ...
In 1987, the audacious flight of a West German teenager, Matthias Rust, exposed critical vulnerabilities in the Soviet Union’s air ... culminating in the formation of the 1st Lenin Special ...