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Watch the Super Mario Bros teach Mikhail Gorbachev how to make pizza
I fell down a bit of a Wikipedia Wormhole after watching the recent fan-edit of the 1993 Super Mario Bros movie (which is even more inexplicable than I remembered). And that's how I learned that...
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Check out this 1931 Soviet guide to turning potatoes into toys
Potato Toys is a super charming, illustrated Soviet guide about how to make toys out of potatoes. I love all of the potato-creatures in the guide. Mr. Potato head has nothing on these little guys. The...
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These weird old Soviet anti-alcohol posters are wild
In Soviet Russia, vodka drinks you. I thought I'd do a thread of soviet anti-alcohol posters because they are often brilliant, ingenious, and… sobering.First, from 1988, this one says "Passage to...
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CIA releases new documents about Russian telepathy experiments in the 60s
Via Vice: The documents detail conversations an agent had with Soviet scientists and a student about the USSR's interest in developing ESP. Guided by these second hand accounts, it sounds like the...
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The Soviet Union's TOPGUN counterpart
Paper Skies delves into the elite 1521st Aviation Base Maryy "aggressor" squadrons located in Turkmenistan, known as the Soviet Union's TOPGUN counterpart; both schools were established around the...
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20th Century Men brilliantly flips the Cold War on its head, with superheroes
20th Century Men is a sprawling new alternate history comic book series from Deniz Camp and S. Morian. The official synopsis gives you a vague idea of what you're in for: At the end of the 20th...
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World's deadliest spot: the horror of Lake Karachay
Standing for just one hour at the shore of Russia's Lake Karachay ("black water") in 1990 would have killed you. Before it was buried beneath concrete and stone, the lake held an apocalyptic secret:...
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RIP Boris Spassky: "one of the greatest chess players of the Soviet era and...
Boris Spassky, the World Chess Champion who faced Bobby Fischer in the legendary "Match of the Century," died Thursday at age 88. Spassky was born in Leningrad (now St. Petersburg), where he became a...
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