During the Cold War, the Soviet military undertook a secret mapping program that’s only recently come to light in the West. Military cartographers created hundreds of thousands of maps and ...

CHILLING maps, declassified after the fall of the Soviet Union, reveal plans for London and the rest of the UK following a proposed invasion from the communist state.

Potapov's research shows how the end of the Soviet Union literally made the world more green – but at a substantial human cost. ... The world’s languages, in 7 maps and charts.

Secret Soviet Posters Demystify Map Symbols. These posters, part of a massive military program, illustrated how to map different types of buildings, bridges, and even trees in intricate detail.

The collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 ended decades of Cold War tension and reshaped global politics. But what if the USSR never fell? What if Gorbachev’s reforms had succeeded, transforming the ...

After the Soviet Union crumbled in the early 1990s, something altogether eerie was discovered. Hundreds and thousands of maps of countries and cities throughout the world had been drawn up by ...

When the Soviet Union finally collapsed in 1991, Russia lost a lot of its influence. Now Mr Putin appears intent on turning the clock back more than 30 years to the Soviet Union’s heyday.

On October 30, 1961, the Soviet Union tested the largest nuclear device ever created. The "Tsar Bomba," as it became known, was 10 times more powerful than all the munitions used during World War II.

By early December, total Soviet losses were approaching 3 million, and both U.S. and British intelligence feared that the Soviet Union could collapse within weeks.

Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev. Mikhail Gorbachev became general secretary of the Communist Party, and therefore the leader of the Soviet Union, on March 11, 1985 and aimed to kick-start ...