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A failed Soviet Venus lander will fall back to Earth after being stranded for 53 years
In late March 1972, the Soviet Union's Cosmos 482 was launched. But that attempted Venus probe ran amuck during its rocket-assisted toss to the cloud-veiled world. Major elements of that failed ...
Popular Science2d
A dead Soviet space probe from 1972 is falling back to Earth
Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. In 1972, the Soviet Union launched a pair of space probes destined for Venus. While the USSR’s Venera 8 successfully reached ...
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CIA document doesn't prove aliens turned Soviet soldiers to stone — and it was never classified
In April 2025, rumors spread on social media about an allegedly declassified CIA document that proved a story about aliens turning 23 Soviet soldiers to stone after a UFO was shot down.
The Post-Journal6d
POWs survive Soviet imprisonment
What they didn’t and couldn’t know then was that what he calls their Gefangenshaft — their imprisonment — in prisoner-of-war camps deep inside the Soviet Union would last not days, weeks, months, or ...
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CIA files confirm Soviet attack on UFO that landed in Siberia
which had a terrifying encounter with a Soviet commando in 1990, at the height of the Cold War According to the report, published by RadarOnline.com, the encounter caused the aliens to turn the ...
ERR News6d
Estonia catalogs all 366 Soviet occupation war memorials
A commission formed jointly by the Estonian Government Office and under the National War Museum (Sõjamuuseum) has announced it has found over 360 war monuments and graves erected by Soviet authorities ...
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53 years later, old Soviet Venus spacecraft to fall back to Earth — but there’s a potential risk
More than five decades ago, Cosmos 482 was hurled into space. Hopes were high as the Soviet Union targeted Venus in 1972. But the mission went astray and remained trapped around Earth. Now ...
Daily Mail3d
Horrifying secrets of Nazi concentration camp's human experiments including hurling grenades into a packed room are revealed in trove of Soviet documents
The commandant of the notorious camp admitted to overseeing tests that included throwing a new kind of hand grenade into a room filled with inmates to test it, declassified Soviet files released ...
Kyiv Post3d
Kazakhstan Bans Pro-Russian Marches in Memory of Soviet Soldiers
Officials in Almaty, Kazakhstan’s largest city, and in Pavlodar and Petropavl, denied permission for commemorative marches honoring Soviet soldiers who fought in World War Two. Follow our coverage of ...
The Hindu3d
Russian House to organise Soviet victory festival in Thiruvananthapuram from April 30
Seminars, exhibitions and a war film festival are among the highlights of a nine-day event planned by the Russian House in the city from April 30 to mark the 80th anniversary of the Soviet victory ...
Staten Island Advance6d
‘Never again is now more than ever.’ Staten Island Holocaust commemoration features survivor rescued by Soviet hero
As the displaced villagers contemplated killing her or forcing her family to leave the forest, she explained it was Nikolai Kiselev, a non-Jewish Soviet partisan who would physically carry her and ...