@cosmos4u@scicomm.xyz50 years (and one day) ago the first images from the surface of another planet reached Earth - not from Mars but from Venus, by the Soviet Union's #Venera 9 lander: https://www.facebook.com/Mercury.3488/posts/pfbid02sEPs9WzQprrJAhPPtEkJfj7jgm65Jzy9995mH5SJtXBHrhHk5tfCTn7hYekmE731l (the image here from https://www.planetary.org/space-images/venus-surface-panorama-from-venera-9 shows a cleaned-up panorama the lander took).
@davidaugust@mastodon.onlineNot only was airfield at Bagram built in 1950s by Soviet Union, but potus was one who wanted US out of Afghanistan.
“It was Trump's administration that signed the peace agreement with the Taliban that paved the way for the withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan near the end of his first term.”
Bad things may well happen to US soldiers if potus follows through on this.
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@cdarwin@c.imIn 1987, a young real estate developer traveled to the Soviet Union.
The KGB almost certainly made the trip happen.
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/11/19/trump-first-moscow-trip-215842/
@relcfp@mastodon.socialEastern Noir Cinema: the Soviet Union, Eastern Europe, and China in the 1980s https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2025/10/07/eastern-noir-cinema-the-soviet-union-eastern-europe-and-china-in-the-1980s…
@ErikJonker@mastodon.socialJust like the former Soviet-Union , I think we sometimes underestimate how weak Russia is, in comparison with the EU
@detondev@social.linux.pizzawhats ur favorite historical communist propaganda
@memeorandum@universeodon.comMass arrests, purges, show trials, our very own homegrown Gulag: Is this the U.S.A. or the Soviet Union? (Lucian K. Truscott IV/Lucian Truscott Newsletter)
https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/mass-arrests-purges-show-trials-our
http://www.memeorandum.com/250807/p163#a250807p163
@cdarwin@c.imFew countries are more aware of the fragility of democracy than Poland.
45 years ago, Lech Walesa started Poland's Solidarity Movement, stared down the Soviet Union, and became his country's first democratically elected president.
He joins the show from Phoenix, Arizona to discuss today's dangers and his own extraordinary personal and political story.
Christiane Amanpour is fixated on history, which is important, but 82 year old Lech Walesa is not having it…
@detondev@social.linux.pizzato this day, despite it's collapse, there are still websites with the soviet union's country-code tld, ".su"
here's one i mess with :)
http://www.ufoleaks.su/
@relcfp@mastodon.socialEastern Noir Cinema: the Soviet Union, Eastern Europe, and China in the 1980s
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