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The New Safe Confinement in final position over reactor 4 at Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant.

On January 21, 1990, in support of Ukrainian independence and the aspirations for greater autonomy from the Soviet Union, people joined hands in a 600-kilometer human chain known as the Chain of Unity, also known as the Ukrainian Wave, across…

A comparison of US and Soviet military expenditure, 1984-1991

Cartoon shows Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev looking in dismay at a massive stone hammer and sickle, now shattered into many parts. One of a new breed of Soviet leaders who ascended to power in 1980s, Gorbachev implemented political and cultural…

Photograph of Congressman Charles Wilson posing on horseback among a group of armed Mujahideen during the Soviet-Afghan War, late 1980's

RBMK (reaktor bolshoy moshchnosti kanalnyy) type reactor schematic diagram.

Picture of the cold war countries.

President Ronald Reagan Meeting with Afghan Freedom Fighters in The Oval Office to Discuss Soviet Atrocities in Afghanistan

Sinchon, Korea. North Korean prisoners were captured just south of Uijeongbu.

Two enemy Model T-34 tanks, hidden in the valley along the Inchon-Seoul Road, were knocked out by a 3.5 rocket team.