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Mao's cult of personality could have led to his son's eventual rule. 

A Soviet Kirov-class battlecruiser is intercepted by the USS Iowa. Who wins? Heres What You Need To Know: A hypothetical 1988 engagement between NATO and the Warsaw Pact demonstrates the superiority of guns over missiles in certain scenarios. It’s 1988. World War Three has begun, with the armies of the Soviet Union and the rest of the Warsaw Pact pouring over the Inter-German Border. Their destination: the Rhine River and beyond, dealing NATO a knockout blow that will end the war. Meanwhi...

У Румунії досі є вулиці, названі іменами воєнних злочинців, і це критикують як небажання пам’ятати про роль країни в винищенні євреїв

CHINA / DIPLOMACY By Lin Xiaoyi Published: May 09, 2021 06:03 PM Russian girls hold up pictures of their predecessors who took part in the Great Patriotic War during the "Immortal Regiment" march in Beijing on Sunday. Photo: Li Hao/GT The slogan "Sino-Russian friendship passes down from generation to generation" rang out in the square of Beijing Exhibition Centre on Sunday. Echoing the grand Victory Day military parade in Moscows Red Square, Russia, almost 400 people gathered in Beijing, joi...

The open prison system is known across the former Soviet Union as "khimiya" (chemistry), a name that goes back to the late 1940s when convicts were sent to work at dangerous industries, mainly chemical factories, and allowed to live in special dormitories instead of being incarcerated in penitentiaries. These days, a "khimiya" sentence means that a convict will stay in a dormitory not far from their permanent address and work either at their workplace as usual or at a state entity defined by th...

defenceWeb Written by defenceWeb - New SAAF Chief, Lieutenant General Wiseman Mbambo, seen here as a major general. When he takes up the post of SA Air Force (SAAF) Chief on 1 June, Lieutenant General Wiseman Mbambo becomes the fifth commander of the airborne service of the SA National Defence Force (SANDF) since its establishment on 27 April 1994. In what is, in some circles, seen as a break with tradition Mbambo is the first CAF in the democratic era not to wear pilot’s wings. His predeces...

Kazakh painter, watercolorist, People’s Artist of Kazakhstan, and honored artist Aubakir ISMAILOV (1913-1999) was born in Karaganda region. He was the graduate of the studio for Kazakh youth at the Vrubel Omsk college and GITIS Academy. In 1928, he took part in the first touring exhibition of the Kazakh arts. He was also renowned as an actor and stage director. In 1939, he organized an ensemble of folk dance at the Kazakh State Philharmonic Hall. Ismailov is considered as one of the founder...

Kazakhstan’s military doctrine developer Kim Seikbayev dies aged 88 19 April 2021 15:38 Share in: ALMATY. KAZINFORM – Kim Seikbayev, doctor of military sciences, honored worker of Kazakhstan, professor, has died at the age of 88, Kazinform correspondent reports. Related news Seikbayev has died after five days in the hospital where he was treated for the coronavirus infection, the Public Fung «Union of Veterans of the Great Patri...

The Soviet supercarrier  Ulyanovsk would have been a naval behemoth more than 1,000 feet long, with an 85,000-ton displacement. Heres What You Need to Remember: Great nations have carriers, Russia considers itself a great nation, and therefore the ship would be a symbol of national revival and destiny. In other words, a new carrier would be one more reason to forget the bad old days when the Soviet Union disintegrated. Had she ever sailed, the Soviet supercarrier  Ulyanovsk would have been...

BBC News Published image copyrightEllen Keightley image captionEllen Keightleys kitchen was "demolished" after a drunk driver with no insurance hit her Caldecott home at speed A woman whose home has been crashed into 10 times has demanded action is taken to slow down drivers. Ellen Keightley, 80, has lived near a sharp bend on Uppingham Road in Caldecott, Rutland, for more than 60 years. Most of the collisions have only damaged her garden wall but, in the latest crash, her kitchen was "demolis...