Images from the USSR

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And yes... It totally has a swimming pool on-board .

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[Ülev]

1986

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Flying should really be like "flying". But the clickbait is less strong like that, so here we are

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AKA Concordski. It took everything for me to not just title the video that . Second of a two parter on these two commercial super sonic planes!

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Source/Further reading: BBC - The Monster Atomic Bomb that was too Big to Use: https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20... Atomic heritage foundation: https://www.atomicheritage.org/histor... Britannica: https://www.britannica.com/topic/Tsar... History of Severny and the Novaya Zemlya: https://www.britannica.com/place/Nova... Some good descriptions of damage caused: https://nuclearweaponarchive.org/Russ... Slate, with some descriptions of the island pre-test: http://www.slate.com/blogs/atlas_obsc... Atlas Obscura: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/n... Gizmodo: https://gizmodo.com/the-biggest-bomb-... What would happen if Tsar Bomba had landed on Nagasaki: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-... Medium: https://medium.com/war-is-boring/the-... Andrei Sakharov, father of the Soviet hydrogen bomb: https://www.atomicheritage.org/profil... Sakharov’s change to dissident: http://blog.nuclearsecrecy.com/2014/0... USSR hydrogen weapons program: https://www.atomicheritage.org/histor... Nenets people today (pictures): https://www.theguardian.com/artanddes... Nuclear stockpiles by country: https://www.armscontrol.org/factsheet...

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Out on the vast plains of the Kazakh steppe lies a place with an eerie secret. Covering an 18,500 square km stretch of wilderness, it looks to all intents and purposes like just another swathe of endless grassland. Yet this quiet exterior hides a sinister past. During the years of the Soviet Union, this area was strictly off-limits.Those who could get close enough witnessed blinding flashes, watched in awe as mushroom clouds expanded across the sky. This place’s name was the Semipalatinsk test site, also known as the Polygon. Today, we know it as the most-nuked place on Earth.

Source/Further reading: History: https://www.historytoday.com/archive/... Effects of individual blasts on human health: https://www.nature.com/articles/d4158... Photos of some deformities, etc (WARNING): https://www.edouphoto.com/index.php?/... History and sites of Polygon: https://caravanistan.com/kazakhstan/n... Soviet Atomic program: https://www.atomicheritage.org/histor... US Nuclear testing: https://www.atomicheritage.org/locati... https://www.theguardian.com/film/2015... Lavrentiy Beria Biographics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FbTwO...

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Our historical documentary series on the history of the Cold War continues with a video on the structure of the Soviet KGB.

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Our interview with @Ushanka Show (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClXT...) - we discuss the cars made in the Soviet Union