Russian officers with Soviet and Russian flags during the Victory ... He suggested that maps of Russia should show the borders of the Soviet Union, the Russian empire that preceded it, as well ...

Minutes later, the Soviet flag was lowered at the Kremlin ... its subscribers "the first and only available modern map of the Soviet Union with place-names in English." Many National Geographic ...

We have rebranded as 'Gateway to Russia' and now offer even more articles and resources about Russia. Why is its color red? What does the ‘hammer and sickle’ emblem represent? And what about ...

On Dec. 25, 1991, at 7:32 p.m., the Soviet flag came down over the Kremlin ... of the ‘Great October Revolution’ of 1917, the union heaved its last in the dreary darkness of late December ...

The trio were frequently grouped together as godheads of the Soviet political system. In the opening weeks of the invasion, a handful of Soviet flags flown ... the Soviet Union," he said.

Images from The Red Atlas: How the Soviet Union Secretly Mapped America, by John Davies and Alexander J. Kent, published by the University of Chicago Press In this map of San Diego, the added ...