But political abuses of science set the USSR back by decades, and we must not forget this cautionary tale of history as the USA verges on making the same mistakes.

(CBS) - During the Cold War, one battlefront between the USA and USSR was in the sky, as the nations fought to be first to space. It's a race the USSR won for years. They put the first man-made ...

It was the USSR’s 50th gold medal of those games. “They know that (the U.S. won), and we know it,” Ratleff said. “But back in that Cold War time, for them, it was like they had to have a win.

As a baby boomer, I grew up in the 1960s and 1970s. I spent 20 years riding ballistic missile submarines. Our foe then was the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.

40 years ago today, the United States men's hockey team shocked the world by defeating the USSR 4-3 in the 1980 Winter Olympics. Skip navigation. Search Query Submit Search. MLB. NFL. NBA. NHL. NASCAR ...

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I was born on Nov. 11, 1989, as the Berlin Wall was being torn down, marking the beginning of the end of the Soviet Union. Shortly after, the USSR economy crumbled in the 1990s which ultimately ...

Saturday marks exactly 50 years since the Olympic basketball debacle in Munich, a gold-medal game in which the United States appeared to have beaten the Soviet Union – and maintained what was to ...