How a KGB archivist defected with a treasure trove of Soviet secrets — and even his family had no clue

Vladimir Mitrokhin’s amazing story is the subject of a new book, ‘The Spy in the Archive: How One Man Tried to Kill the KGB.’ ...

Aldrich Ames, CIA officer who spied for Soviet Union, has died at 84

One of the most notorious spies in U.S. history, Aldrich Ames, died on Tuesday at the age of 84. As a CIA officer, Ames sold ...

Sergei Fedorov's secret escape from Soviet Union helped save Red Wings

We had him in Detroit before the Russians knew he was gone." On July 23, 1990, Sergei Fedorov, 5 months shy of his 21st ...
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My theory about Russian vodka: Drinking culture in the Soviet Union

Why have so many men in Soviet Russia turned to alcohol? Find out in this fascinating video! In this video, I explore why so ...
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Unveiling the T-60S: The Soviet Bomber That Could Have Redefined Aerial Warfare

One of the Soviet Union’s most ambitious postwar aircraft projects, the ill-fated T-60S bomber, offers a glimpse of the modern Russian bomber force that could have been. In the mid-1980s, the Soviet ...

Aldrich Ames, Soviet mole in the CIA whose treachery led to the deaths of countless Western agents

Aldrich Ames, who has died aged 84, had a 32-year career with the CIA and was a double agent for the last nine of them; he ...
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OTD In Space - January 8: Soviet Union Launches 2nd Lunar Rover

On January 8, 1973, the Soviet Union launched the Luna 21 mission to land a rover on the moon. This was the second time that ...

Aldrich Ames: How an alcoholic became Soviet Union's biggest asset inside the CIA

To understand Aldrich Ames, one must first strip away the mythology that usually attaches itself to traitors. He was not ...
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The Soviet Tu-4 Bomber Looked an Awful Lot Like the B-29 Stratofortress

The Soviet Union’s Tupolev Tu-4 strategic bomber, which entered service in 1949, represented one of the most glaring episodes of intellectual property theft in aviation history. Although the Cold War ...

What Auburn football's Alex Golesh learned from family fleeing Soviet Union

Auburn football coach Alex Golesh was born in Moscow, and his family fled the Soviet Union in 1991. Here's what he said about ...
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Soviet Union prison camp survivor celebrates 100th birthday in Ashland

In 100 years of life, Dorothea Schade survived a Soviet gulag after World War II and immigrated to America for a better life.

Harry Dexter White: Architect of Postwar Economy and Alleged Soviet Spy

Discover Harry Dexter White's role in shaping the postwar global economy through the Bretton Woods Agreement and the ...