In late March 1972, the Soviet Union's Cosmos 482 was launched. But that attempted Venus probe ran amuck during its rocket-assisted toss to the cloud-veiled world. Major elements of that failed ...

Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. In 1972, the Soviet Union launched a pair of space probes destined for Venus. While the USSR’s Venera 8 successfully reached ...

This bird is an enduring symbol of Soviet resistance—and perseverance—during the darkest days of what Russians refer to as the “Great Patriotic War.” Betrayed by their purported “allies ...

A COLD War era Soviet spaceship destined for Venus is set to crash back to Earth, and it could hit the UK. Kosmos 482 took off in 1972, but a failed launch left the spaceship circling lifelessly ...

But China is not the Soviet Union. It is not an isolated command economy, nor an empire straining under the weight of its military overreach. It is a globalized, tech-powered, civilizational state ...

In April 2025, rumors spread on social media about an allegedly declassified CIA document that proved a story about aliens turning 23 Soviet soldiers to stone after a UFO was shot down.

which had a terrifying encounter with a Soviet commando in 1990, at the height of the Cold War According to the report, published by RadarOnline.com, the encounter caused the aliens to turn the ...

What they didn’t and couldn’t know then was that what he calls their Gefangenshaft — their imprisonment — in prisoner-of-war camps deep inside the Soviet Union would last not days, weeks, months, or ...

A commission formed jointly by the Estonian Government Office and under the National War Museum (Sõjamuuseum) has announced it has found over 360 war monuments and graves erected by Soviet authorities ...

Kyrgyzstan is getting rid of its Soviet-inspired national anthem and has launched an unprecedented public contest to find an alternative. The mountainous Central Asian country adopted a new anthem ...

“In about 2 weeks from now, an unusual uncontrolled reentry will happen: a 53-year-old landing capsule from a failed Soviet Venera mission stuck in Earth orbit,” Dutch satellite tracker Marco ...

The new report claims that Soviet soldiers shot down an alien craft that was circling over the Soviet military unit in Siberia.(Pixabay) The new report claims that Soviet soldiers shot down an ...