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Cold War military history of the Soviet Union | HearLore
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Cold War military history of the Soviet Union
1983 Soviet nuclear false alarm incidentOn the 26th of September 1983, the world teetered on a knife-edge of nuclear annihilation. The United States and the Soviet Union stood locked in a deadly…
Hungarian Revolution of 1956In 1945, the Red Army entered Budapest after a brutal siege that left the city in ruins. The Soviet Union established control over Hungary, transforming it…
Soviet–Afghan WarIn 1893, British civil servant Mortimer Durand drew a line across the Pamir Mountains that would haunt Afghanistan for over a century.
Warsaw Pact invasion of CzechoslovakiaIn the late 1950s, Czechoslovakia began a slow process of de-Stalinization under Antonín Novotný. This change moved much slower than in other Eastern Bloc…
RDS-1The Kurchatov Institute, then officially known as Laboratory Number 2, began work on the RDS-1 device in April 1946. Plutonium for this weapon came from the…
Stanislav PetrovStanislav Yevgrafovich Petrov was born on the 7th of September 1939 to a Russian family near Vladivostok. His father, Yevgraf, flew fighter aircraft during…
Sino-Soviet border conflictIn 1964, the Chinese government revisited border demarcations originally imposed upon the Qing dynasty by the Russian Empire through unequal treaties.
Afghan conflictIn July 1973, a cousin named Mohammad Daoud Khan walked into the palace of Kabul and ended forty years of peace. The monarch, King Zahir Shah, did not fight…