The Red Army will be able to assure it. Soviet Russia's present allies may easily become obsessed by fear of the Red military colossus, even though, in the absence of any reliable system of general ...

At the time of the Soviet Union’s collapse in 1991, Communists had been in power for 74 years in Moscow. The Chinese Communist Party has now surpassed “big brother”, as it once called the ...

Standing a towering 105 feet tall (according to contemporary sources), the Colossus of Rhodes was designed by the architect Chares of Lindos, a student of the famed Greek sculptor Lysippos.

While the X-Men hero may have more limited abilities than his teammates, Colossus has become a fan favorite for a reason.

Despite initially fearing they had found themselves in an austere-looking former Soviet backwater, prone to power cuts and intolerable heatwaves, the couple say moving there was an incredible ...

Vladimir Putin is reportedly feeling the strain of economic pressures that resemble those that led to the collapse of the Soviet Union. Forced to increase defence spending while cutting back on ...

China's 75th anniversary of Communist rule was marked quietly amid fears of a Soviet-style collapse. President Xi Jinping emphasizes party loyalty and ideological discipline, wary of ...

He cited the events of the 1956 anti-Soviet uprising where thousands of Hungarians were killed and hundreds of thousands forced to flee their homes in 12 days of unsuccessful resistance to rule by ...

“Back in the Soviet Union era, Armenia was really very famous as a hi-tech country,” Armenian President Vahagn Khachaturyan ...

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When a Soviet flag was raised at a concert – “Songs of Victory” – organized in Tashkent on May 1, 2021, Qodirov called it an insult and provocation. “We consider it an insult to the ...

About 10% of total defence spending will go to military personnel payments, which have also hit a post-Soviet high with the minimum annual wage in the first year of service at the frontline ...