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Oleg Gordievsky, Britain’s most valuable Cold War spy inside the KGB, dies at 86Historians consider Oleg Gordievsky, the most senior Soviet spy to defect during the Cold War, one of the era’s most important informants.WorldMar 22, 2025
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Attention tinfoil hat people: Are these music-related conspiracies on your radar?If you're the kind of person who sees a conspiracy behind every corner, here are a few more things of a musical nature to feed your paranoia.EntertainmentApr 30, 2023
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Kyiv workers accidentally behead Soviet statue while struggling to remove itA statue of a Russian soldier was accidentally decapitated in Kyiv during attempts to dismantle it, as part of a move to 'decommunize' and 'de-Russify' the Ukrainian capital.WorldApr 26, 2022
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Alan Cross uncovers the great KGB punk rock plot that wasn’t — or was it?Not all wars involve guns and bombs. There are those who believe that back in the 1970s and with the Cold War raging, the USSR used punk rock as a tool to destabilize the West.EntertainmentApr 25, 2021
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Armenia accuses Azerbaijan of shelling historic cathedral amid conflictThe Holy Savior Cathedral, also known as the Ghazanchetsots Cathedral, had its dome pierced by a shell that also damaged the interior.WorldOct 8, 2020
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King of Bombs: Once-secret footage shows largest-ever nuclear explosionThe Soviet Union's Tsar Bomba, or 'King of Bombs,' was 3,800 times more powerful than the first nuke dropped on Hiroshima.TrendingSep 2, 2020
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Strathroy, Ont.’s Pat Stapleton passes away at 79Pat Stapleton was a part of many big games and big moments during the course of his life.SportsApr 10, 2020
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Vladimir Putin says his grandfather worked as a cook for Lenin and StalinPutin’s paternal grandfather worked as a cook for both Vladimir Lenin and Joseph Stalin, the president said in a film posted on the internet on Sunday.WorldMar 11, 2018
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Kremlin spokesperson says breakup of USSR was a ‘disaster,’ calls for new integrationVladimir Putin believes the disintegration of the Soviet Union was a "disaster," a Kremlin spokesperson reportedly said Wednesday, while calling for new integration among the countries of the fallen USSR.WorldDec 21, 2016
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‘Holodomor: Voices of Survivors’ documentary teaches Regina high school students about genocide"Holodomor: Voices of Survivors" is a documentary produced and directed by Ariadna Ochrymovych, a Toronto-based filmmaker, that exposes Soviet Union propaganda secrets.CanadaMay 30, 2016
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