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• World In Conflict Demo Coming August 24

  Published: August 20, 2007, 2:23 pm

  Tags: Computer, Combat Skills, Conflict, Games Convention, Hone, Leipzig Germany, Match, Multiplayer Combat, Multiplayer Modes, Penny Arcade, Player Campaign, Public Demo, Public Experience, Retail Outlets, Seaside, Single Player, Skirmish Mode, Time Players, Ussr, Us Airbase, Viv

  Map: Seaside (US vs. USSR) Exclusive Bonus Map: Customers who have pre-ordered the game will also be able to play a second MP map: Ruins (US vs. USSR) First public experience with World in Conflict's epic single-player campaign Tutorial: US Airbase SP Mission 3: The Battle of Pine Valley Skirmish Mode: For the first

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• USSR. Living in the Fifties.

  Published: August 21, 2007, 8:39 am

  Tags: Society, Culture, History, Photos, 60s, Sixties, Soviet Era, Soviet People, Soviet Union, Ussr

  More pictures portraying life in the Soviet era, submitted by our visitor Firsak. We’ve already seen life in the USSR in the seventies and sixties and now come the fifties. See also: USSR in the 70-s, part 1 USSR in the 70-s, part 2 USSR in the 70-s, part 3 USSR in the 60-s, part 1 (more…)

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• World In Conflict Demo Available Now At File Front

  Published: August 24, 2007, 2:34 pm

  Tags: Computer, Bonus, Combat Skills, Conflict, Demo, Hone, Massive Entertainment, Match, Multiplayer Combat, Player Campaign, Public Experience, Seaside, Sierra, Single Player, Skirmish Mode, Time Players, Ussr, Us Airbase

  Map: Seaside (US vs. USSR) Exclusive Bonus Map: Customers who have pre-ordered the game will also be able to play a second MP map: Ruins (US vs. USSR) First public experience with World in Conflict's epic single-player campaign Tutorial: US Airbase SP Mission 3: The Battle of Pine Valley Skirmish Mode: For the first time,

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• fa nat ic

  Published: August 29, 2007, 6:15 pm

  Tags: Canada, Super Series, Hockey, Sergei Nemchinov, Alexei Cherepanov, Ussr, Russian Hockey Federation, Wolrd Juniors, Russian Super League, Russia

  Websters Dictionary describes fa nat ic as marked by excessive enthusiasm and often intense uncritical devotion. This would be a good description of me and I, when it comes to my love for the Russian Hockey. Specifically Russian National Team. I have spouted stats, records, hearsay, in defense of this hockey decorated nation. I have

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• Feminine Symbol of the USSR

  Published: September 15, 2007, 9:57 am

  Tags: Society, Culture, Exclusive, History, Photos, Russian Art, Russian Brides, Russian Women, Soviet Union, Ussr, Woman Paddle

  We’ve already told about Soviet contraceptive devices. Now we can say, that there was indeed something that could be called a real feminine symbol of the USSR. Those images of a woman with a paddle in one hand were standing in many cities and towns throughout the whole Soviet Union. (more…)

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• Soviet Road Safety Guidelines in Verses

  Published: September 20, 2007, 3:47 pm

  Tags: Funny, Law, History, Russian Art, Road Rules In Verses, Road Safety Guidelines, Russian Roads, Soviet Union, Ussr

  He is showing off in vain: It’s the way to die in pain. (more…)

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• USSR at the End of 80s

  Published: September 20, 2007, 12:43 pm

  Tags: Society, Culture, History, Photos, 80 S, 80s, Eighties, History, Living In Russia, Living In Soviet Union, Living In The Ussr, Moscow, Ussr

  80s. Pepsi first time in the USSR on the picture above. See also: Moscow Hotel Russia , Nowadays Moscow at 80-s. Moscow in the 60-s and 70-s Moscow 1967 Moscow Decorated For Soviet Holidays, 1932 Moscow 1927 Prophetic Postcards Back From 1914 Moscow Flood at 1908 Moscow 1890 Moscow Now and Then Moscow. The Past and the Present USSR in the

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• Soviet War Games

  Published: September 24, 2007, 3:40 am

  Tags: Society, Culture, History, Photos, Russian Army, Russian Soldier, Soviet Army, Soviet War Games, Ussr, Zarnitsa

  War games were quite usual and sometimes even obligatory thing in Soviet Union both for children (pioneers) and for adults. “Zarnitsa” (sheet lightning) was the most widespread and famous one, when a big group of people was divided into two confronting teams. The aim was to capture a flag, “secret” documents or army

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• Some Soviet Fashion

  Published: September 25, 2007, 1:42 pm

  Tags: History, Photos, Russian Art, Soviet Fashion, Ussr

  with getting job. In the USSR every person should be the member of that political organization. Of course, within these strict moral borders, there was a fashion in Soviet Union. Or it could be called “the Soviet style”. Here are some art works and public posters of that time.

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• Soviet Food Posters

  Published: October 3, 2007, 4:06 am

  Tags: Photos, Russian Art, Soviet Food, Soviet Posters, Ussr

  no place for a famine in the USSR, at least on these posters. See also: Some Soviet Fashion Seeing Soviet Russia Soviet Ads for Western Audience Strange Soviet Poster, 1933 German Anti-Soviet and Anti-Jewish Posters on Russian Russian-Japan War Propaganda Posters Russian IT Calendar Styled to Soviet Posters Soviet Road Safety Guidelines in

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• Kadykchan. The City of Broken Dreams

  Published: October 4, 2007, 8:06 am

  Tags: Society, Economics, Photos, Abandoned, Abandoned Soviet Towns, Kadykchan, Soviet Union, Ussr

  No, this isn’t Chernobyl and there isn’t any dangerous radioactive background or toxic pollution. You can even live in this town… but there is no reason for. This place has become absolutely useless after the collapse of the USSR, like many other Soviet industrial settlements. (more…)

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• Tricky Dicky and the Madman Theory

  Published: October 12, 2007, 5:31 pm

  Tags: Usa, Military, Nuclear, Disinformation, Ussr

  to bluff the leaders of the USSR into thinking the United States was getting ready for a nuclear attack. The operation was kept secret not only from the peoples' Congress, but even from some of the senior military officers charged with implementing it.''I want the North Vietnamese to believe," Nixon said to White House Chief of Staff, HR

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• Lenin's State Monopoly Capitalism

  Published: October 21, 2007, 7:16 am

  Tags: Nanny State, China, State Capitalism, Nep, Bolsheviks, Monopoly, Ussr, Lenin, Monopoly Capitalism, Kronstadt

  Bolsheviks,Marx,Kronstadt,USSR,China,Viet Nam,taylorism,fordism, NEP, state capitalism, state monopoly capitalism, monopoly capitalism,

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• Space: Soviet Outpost In Kazakhstan Slated To Be America's Spaceport For Four Years Or More

  Published: October 22, 2007, 3:00 pm

  Tags: Baikonur, Kazakhstan, Nasa, Soviet, Space, Ussr

  Baikonur is the former Soviet spaceport that put Yuri Gagarin into space and—despite regime change and an uncomfortable proximity to Borat—is still active. This year it provided the launch pad for American billionaire Charles Simonyi and the first Malaysian cosmonaut, Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor. According to the AP, once the US space

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• Quote of the Day: Embracing Irony

  Published: October 22, 2007, 7:55 pm

  Tags: Ussr, Militarism, Authoritarianism, Hawks, Imperialism, Cheney, Human Rights, Iran

  It’s really an appallingly strange time in our country. We have a singularly powerful Vice-President (compared to any of his predecessors)–openly quite enamored by the tactics employed by the Soviet Union–our former arch-foe whose human rights standards we derided. Indeed, we fought a decades-long Cold War so that Western style

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