They always came at night, swooping down low on their terrorised targets under the cover of darkness. They were called Night Witches, and they were highly effective at what they did, even though the wooden craft ...
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These are previously unpublished images taken from the site of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster. The Chernobyl disaster was a catastrophic nuclear accident that occurred on 26 April 1986 at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine. ...
A brilliant video by Pig With The Face Of A Boy, chronicling the complete history of the Soviet Union set to the theme tune of Tetris. ...
These amazing pictures show life in the Russian services during World War 2. The Russian services – the army, navy and the airforce operated predominantly in Eastern Europe after they were invaded by Germany in 1941. ...
It’s the 28th November 1960 and a mysterious SOS signal is apparently heard by two former amateur radio operators sitting in a makeshift experimental listening station set in a disused German bunker in Torre Bert. Their ...
The 2001 war film Enemy at the Gates had a distinctly British cast, including Jude Law, Joseph Fiennes, Bob Hoskins and Rachel Weisz, but the story it told is that of a Russian sniper and war ...
The Chernobyl nuclear disaster on 26 April 1986 meant that large areas around the site, including the city of Prypiat were evacuated and remain largely uninhabited to this day. In order to expedite the evacuation, the residents ...
These are some amazing pictures of behind the pressurised door of a Russian Cold-War bomb shelter. ...
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