| 单词 | Soviets |
| 例句 | The coded Soviet telegrams couldn’t be used in a public court, because the Americans didn’t want the Soviets to know they had broken their code. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Nearly seventy-five Lithuanians and only five Soviets, yet no one dared move. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z He broke off the bombing attacks and turned his attention to the Soviets. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z He felt he’d complied with the wishes of the Soviets by making the apology to Spassky, writing it by hand and personally delivering it, and he’d just agreed to go along with Spassky’s postponement. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z The Soviets' first nuclear test presented a vexing question for Agent Robert Lamphere. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z In this way, Black said, the Soviets would soon wipe out the greed and poverty plaguing countries like the United States. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Pash believed that Oppenheimer was either handing secrets directly to the Soviets, “or he may be making that information available to his other contacts”—Jean Tatlock, for instance. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z By December 1942, as another harsh Russian winter began to settle in, the Soviets managed to get the German army surrounded at Stalingrad. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z “We’re not sick. We’ll soon be back in our homes. When the rest of the world finds out what the Soviets are doing, they will put an end to all of this.” Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z Stalin had no intention of keeping the agreement, Sam said, but the deal gave the Soviets time to build up their military strength. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Ever since the Soviets sent up that Sputnik satellite last year, I’ve been studying really hard. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z George Blake's assignment from MI6 was to recruit Soviets to become double agents for the British. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z That would create difficulty for Stassen, for international pressure to suspend tests was growing—indeed, the Soviets had proposed a test moratorium in May, just as Stassen’s task forces were coming together. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Back in London, Blake slipped quietly into his new routine of spying on England for the KGB—all the while pretending to spy on the Soviets for MI6. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z The Soviets stated that she lived up to a week before the sensors failed. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z And certainly no one, no one, dared repeat in her presence the rising rumors that, after eight years of fighting, the Soviets were losing this war. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z Nineteen years later, the Soviets would also put the second woman into space. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z I knew that meant they were talking about the Soviets. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z Already the Soviets maneuvered for control of Europe, where their espionage networks held the advantage over America and its Western allies. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z As the Allied forces moved through western Europe following the D-Day invasion of Normandy, the Soviets moved on the Germans in Belorussia, bringing another wave of desperate combat for the 125th. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z The Soviets would never know—not until the KGB could get a scientist inside the Manhattan Project. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z “Afghanistan has been invaded so many times. By the Persians, Greeks, Arabs, Turks, Mongols, British, and then the Soviets...” Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z “The Soviets have arrested us because we are knowledgeable, learned people. To smoke pages of a book is just...What were you thinking?” Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z They reasoned that eastern Poland, closer to the Soviets, would be safer than the west, with its proximity to Germany. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z The CIA determined that Blake had passed over 4,000 documents to the Soviets, many of them containing highly classified information about British and American spies. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Others denied having any ties to the Soviets. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Two Soviets pulled a priest down the platform. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z In other words, it was the perfect spot for America and its allies to spy on the Soviets. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z “Make it blow up the Soviets,” I said, running my fingers over the blades of grass. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z But the urgency of the competition with the Soviets created pressure to adopt the quickest, surest way into space, even if it was a little crude, or sacrificed long-term spacefaring viability for short-term earthly victory. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Still, the Soviets were absolutely determined to steal the bomb. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Suddenly worried about losing his position at Los Alamos, he decided to tell Colonel Pash about the time, six months earlier, that his friend Haakon Chevalier had approached him about sharing information with the Soviets. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z “This is serious. The Soviets could arrest you if they saw your drawing.” Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z “It’s up to you now to beat those Soviets.” The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z The Soviets quickly caught on to the emotional distress and instability of their prized secret agent. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z In his memoirs, Reagan wrote, "I intended to let the Soviets know that we were going to spend what it took to stay ahead of them in the arms race." Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z In 1949 the Soviets tested their first atomic bomb, using plans stolen by spies from American labs. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z I stood and watched them, the once confident troops now dejected prisoners of the Soviets. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z As the war dragged on, the Soviets found these repeated night attacks also affected the morale of the German soldiers. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z The Soviets' success spurred the United States on, and America had its first success on January 31, 1958. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z “To the Soviets, there is no more Lithuania, Latvia, or Estonia. Stalin must completely get rid of us to see his vision unlittered.” Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z Since then, he had been selling the NSA's secrets to the Soviets for a total of $37,000, money he used to pay off old debts. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z She was a Communist and knew her brother was in touch with the Soviets. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Her husband had been killed in the war with the Soviets, and she and her two children lived with her in-laws. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z The article went on to say that the Soviets also liked to hide explosives inside brighdy colored toys. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z The federation eliminated the Candidates tournament, an event that had multiple players competing against one another, which Fischer charged led to the opportunity for collusion among the Soviets. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Ever since then, they feared—correctly—that the Soviets would go to great lengths to eavesdrop on conversations inside the embassy. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Now the Soviets began to prepare to take back the eastern region of Belorussia from German occupation. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z I can see the headline from here: “Germans and Soviets Parade in Poland.” Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z When word came that the Americans were going to put their first woman into space, the Soviets dropped plans for an all-female crew and instead focused their energies on launching a second woman into space. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z And the Soviets were getting nothing at all from their agents in America. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z The Soviets took extra precautions to keep their communications secret. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z “The simple explanation is that neither the Soviets nor the Americans wanted Korea to fall to the other side.” Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z Ivanov asked Eltenton to talk with Oppenheimer, to subtly feel out his interest in sharing information with the Soviets. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Clay's announcement reflected simple geography: West Berlin floated like a tiny island in the sea of eastern Germany, a region completely controlled by the Soviets. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z “Lithuanians who work with the Soviets. They give information about other people in order to protect themselves.” Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z The Soviets had spies inside various factories—Americans who were will- ing to secretly share information with the Russians, in exchange for cash. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z In the summer of 1988, about six months before the Soviets withdrew from Afghanistan, I finished my first novel, a father-son story set in Kabul, written mostly with the typewriter the general had given me. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z And he’d always thought that the Soviets wanted him dead, because of the international embarrassment over the 1972 match, and his accusations of Russian cheating. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z “We have heard heroic tales of how your brothers fought against the treacherous Soviets and helped defeat them.” Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z A member of the Berkeley French faculty and a close friend of Oppenheimer’s, Chevalier had approached Oppie about passing information from the bomb program to the Soviets. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z To complicate matters, one of the Soviets leaked to the press that if Fischer failed to come for the second game, Spassky would probably return to Moscow. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z That convinced the Soviets the information was correct, allowing them to move ahead quickly with bomb building. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z It would be just a matter of time, the Soviets reasoned, before the Americans would be forced to abandon the city. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z This would force Hitler to fight on two fronts, taking pressure off the Soviets. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z US officials had known that the Soviets would eventually be able to build a nuclear weapon, but the nation's top intelligence experts estimated that the Soviets' nuclear capability was still four years away. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z The Soviets claimed that, according to the rules, Fischer should have lost the match when he failed to appear on opening day; and only through their benevolence was the contest continuing. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z If the new "space race" made Americans fear that they were falling behind the Soviets, a new arms race—involving intercontinental ballistic missiles, or ICBMs—added a terrifying new dimension to the Cold War. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z In forty years of battling against the CIA, the Soviets had never garnered so much intelligence from a single secret agent. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z The work proved harder than expected, but the Soviets were commendably persistent. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Chess watchers seem to agree that it was likely the Soviets had colluded, on some level, at Curaçao. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z The Soviets were coming on fast from the east. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z By Monday, April 30, 1945, the Soviets had overrun Berlin and Adolf Hitler lay dead. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z In 1957, the Soviets launched Sputnik /, casting a shadow of fear across America. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Had the Soviets captured him, they would have seen him only as a Nazi and would have killed him. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z How long would the Soviets occupy our country? Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z The Soviets shipped weapons to Ho Chi Minh; the Americans supplied weapons to the French. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Bobby believed, they said, that the Soviets were so enraged by his winning the crown from Spassky and thereby diminishing their greatest cultural achievement that they wanted him murdered. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z They’d been taken there to keep them out of the hands of the Soviets, but there was more to it. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z America’s help to the Soviets was the product of cold logic. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Less than a month later, the Soviets shot a second satellite into orbit—Sputnik 2—carrying a live dog named Laika, suggesting that they might soon develop the ability to send a human into space. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z The Soviets forced Mother to teach school to a mixed class of Altaian and Lithuanian children. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z Had the Soviets managed to keep the deportations a secret from the world? Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z Now the Germans could only get supplies by air, and the Soviets shot down their lumbering transport planes the second they got anywhere near their troops. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z Oppenheimer chose not to tell General Groves that he’d been approached by the Soviets. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z It would take a different kind of soldier, and new technologies, to bring the fight to the Soviets. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z President Eisenhower told Stassen he was “quite sure the Soviets have never given any thought to any inspection plan which involved the presence ... of anything like twenty to thirty thousand foreign inspectors.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The Soviets, however, said yes and put the first woman in space in 1963. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z During that same summer of the Americans’ annihilation by the Soviets, Bobby Fischer, now twelve, was engaged in his own battles on the board, playing in a tournament in Greenwich Village. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z By the summer of 1944, reports were circulating that the war had swung in favor of the Allies, mainly the Americans and the British to the west and the Soviets in the east. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z The penalty the Soviets required was a forfeit of the first game. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z But before that could happen, the Soviets launched Vostok 1 on April 12, 1961, and Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first person in space. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z Millions of Soviets were avidly following the progress of the match, fascinated by Fischer’s mastery. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Despite its being unmasked by the Soviets, Operation Gold secured Harvey's reputation inside the CIA as one of its wiliest and smartest operatives. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z The Soviets never could have guessed that a second source was about to walk in the door. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z “Sure is a relief to know someone else’ll be taking care of beating those Soviets.” The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z “He fought against the Soviets and saved us.” Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z The plane dubbed "the black lady of espionage" by the Soviets revved its engines and started on a 3,788-mile arc over the Soviet Union to a secret base in Bodo, Norway. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Bobby’s diatribe about cheating by the Soviets was being discussed all over the world, and the chess hierarchy in Russia was incensed. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Like Truman, Churchill feared that the Soviets were establishing a zone of total control over Central Europe. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z The Soviets had no way of knowing that Oppenheimer had just been named the scientific director of the American atomic bomb project, but they knew he was a top American physicist. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z The Soviets had taken no risks: The trench was designed to keep the CIA away. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z I had played through scenarios of how I would get back at the NKVD, how I would stomp on the Soviets if I ever had a chance. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z “You have to keep drawing. My mother says the world has no idea what the Soviets are doing to us. No one knows what our fathers have sacrificed. If other countries knew, they might help.” Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z Ivanov pointed out to Eltenton that the Americans and Soviets were allies in World War II, but the Soviets were the ones doing the fighting against Hitler. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Finally, after four days of play, the United States team had taken a humiliating beating, falling to the Soviets 20–12. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z At the end of the 1950s, when the American space program looked as uncoordinated and spindly as a foal, predicting that the United States would best the Soviets might have seemed like a fool’s bet. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z I want to see the day the Soviets go home disgraced, the day the Mujahideen come to Kabul in victory. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z With the danger of capture by the Soviets imminent, Schindler knew he had to flee. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z The Soviets wanted to send a woman to space in six months. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z As punishment, the Soviets wanted Germany to pay high reparations and to be forbidden to rebuild their factories and farms. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z The Soviets sent our people to gulags and Siberia. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Although the scientific panel had proposed informing Britain, France, China, and Russia, in practical terms the real question boiled down to what to tell the Soviets. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z “When the Germans kick the Soviets out of Lithuania, we’ll leave you here on the tracks so we don’t have to put up with you anymore.” Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z This saved the Soviets from going down the same dead end as Oppenheimer’s team. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z His personal impressions of the new American president may well have led the Soviet leader into making a bold and risky move with the Soviets' newest ally, Fidel Castro. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Americans continued shipping weapons to the Soviets, but the atomic bomb remained a secret. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z After all, soon after Germany attacked the Soviet Union, the United States began shipping planes, tanks, cannons, and food to the desperate Soviets. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Byrnes seemed to think it could be used like a pistol, to scare the Soviets into behaving a certain way. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Dostum had fought the Soviets in the 1980s alongside the Mujahideen but had defected and joined Najibullah’s communist puppet regime after the Soviets had left. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z And General Taheri, whose hopes had stirred awake after the Soviets pulled out, went back to winding his pocket watch. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z In another article in Ahmad’s box, a young Mujahid was saying that the Soviets had dropped gas on his village that burned people’s skin and blinded them. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z To keep East Germany weak economically, the Soviets stripped anything of value from their zone of occupation. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z Cohen quietly cautioned Hall that he was taking a huge risk in helping the Soviets. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z If the Germans seized this area, the Soviets would run dangerously low on fuel. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z He’d been a high school teacher before the communists fired him—this was shortly after the coup of 1978, about a year and a half before the Soviets had invaded. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z Had he revealed American secrets to the Soviets? Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z The trench, the CIA learned, contained special communications cables to carry the latest intelligence about the Soviets' nuclear weapons program. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z For nine years, Ames delivered to the Soviets a steady stream of secrets, betraying more than one hundred CIA operations against the KGB. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z It was almost as if the Soviets had been tipped off to the fact that the FBI was on to them. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Eltenton asked Chevalier to approach his friend on behalf of the Soviets. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z If the Americans had one, the Soviets had to have one, and then the British, the French, the Chinese, the Indians, the Pakistanis ... Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Skilled interrogators from MI5 invited Fuchs to meetings over several weeks, gradually eliciting different details of his involvement in the Soviets' espionage ring. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Once in possession of this information, American engineers were able to anticipate the Soviets' capabilities and to design planes and missiles that could outmaneuver and outmatch them. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Should Gold ever get the idea of walking away from the Soviets, Fred assured Gold that his boss would get an anonymous note all about Gold’s illegal activities. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Exactly a year before, the Soviets had begun moving troops over the borders into the country. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z At restaurants Bobby always carried with him a virtual pharmacy of remedies and potions to immediately counteract any poisons that the Soviets might slip into his food or drink. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Working methodically—and filming everything with movie cameras—the Soviets and East Germans finally reached the halfway point of the tunnel, where Harvey had set up a barrier of barbed wire and sandbags. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z The Soviets wanted to know how far the German bomb project had gotten, and they wanted German scientists—willing or not—to help them with their own bomb. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z The Soviets did show, though it became evident with their first appearance on the tarmac at Geneva that the State Department’s concerns about their political intentions were well taken. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Dulles, who immediately grasped the potential for tapping into the Soviets' secret communications, approved the plan immediately. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z The people on the list were all top scientists the Soviets suspected might be in on the bomb work. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z The child had been alive only minutes but was already considered a criminal by the Soviets. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z “The Soviets will read everything you write. They’ve got people to translate. So be careful what you say.” Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z Would I tell her that the Soviets had forced us into cattle cars and held us prisoner for six weeks with barely any food or water? Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z The case was embarrassingly closed, it having become clear that the Soviets, stunned at the probable loss of “their” title, were searching for an alibi, one that would sully Bobby’s achievement. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z In the east, the Soviets have retaken Minsk; the Polish Home Army is revolting in Warsaw; a few newspapers have become bold enough to suggest that the tide has turned. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z “What do I think of the Soviets’ annexation?” Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z Teller’s contribution was a warning that the United States could never devise a foolproof monitoring regime to guard against clandestine testing by the Soviets. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z After the introductions, Lovelace and Flickinger said something about an airplane the Soviets were testing. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z “Andrius said they thought his father had international contacts. Now the Soviets think Papa has communication with someone outside Lithuania,” said Jonas quietly. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z The Soviets were all not just professional players, but grandmasters, the designation given to the highest-rated chess masters who have distinguished themselves in international tournaments. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z The impending clash between the Soviets and the Americans thus had Cold War implications. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z They were a guerrilla force, he said, made up of young Pashtun men whose families had fled to Pakistan during the war against the Soviets. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z Across the country, the United States debated the quality of its schools, concerned with how American students matched up to the Soviets in math and the sciences. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z American agents had no evidence that Semyonov was a spy, but they knew some Soviets living in the United States were spies. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Consequently, he believed the Soviets might be furious enough to, as he put it, murder him by “tinkering with the engine of a plane.” Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z If American and British engineers could build an underground tunnel long enough and somehow reach the cables from below, then the Soviets would have no idea that the United States was listening in. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z He was a new breed of spy: quiet and unassuming, but skilled at handling the equipment that was becoming vital to America's espionage campaign against the Soviets. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z This didn’t particularly worry the Soviets—the messages were always written in an extremely complex code. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z In the 1930s, the Soviets secretly recruited him and a group of fellow students at Cambridge University. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Few supported these efforts to put a woman in space, but after American John Glenn orbited the Earth, the Soviets feared the United States was catching up or even surpassing them in the Space Race. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z The chemical processes Black wanted didn’t seem so secret, and if the information could really help the Soviets build a better society, why not share it? Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Still, his knowledge was useful—and the Soviets wanted every scrap of information they could get. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z About the same time that the Soviets began working on putting another woman in space, they also began talking about a space station, built from separate modules. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z If Oppenheimer ever wanted to share any scientific information with the Soviets, he could use this connection. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z The Soviets spared no energy in maneuvering for every advantage they could. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Christine also took umbrage at the Soviets’ excursion into the heavens. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Similarly, nearly forty years later, researchers discovered that the Soviets had moved short-range nuclear cruise missiles into striking distance of the US military base in Guantanamo Bay. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z The following year, in July 1955, a return match in Moscow was even more distorted in favor of the Soviets: The Americans lost again, this time 25–7. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z We waited in limbo after Schindler's departure for the arrival of the Soviets. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z They were a constant irritant to the Soviets, who could only watch and fret as the U-2s soared beyond the reach of their jet fighters and missiles. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z “My decision about contacting the Soviets was a gradual one,” he said, “and it was entirely my own.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z A steady stream of telltale clues fueled the Soviets' fears. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z It was the job of Army Counter- Intelligence to guard the world’s most dangerous secret—not just from the Germans, but from the Soviets as well. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z It did not help that the Soviets kept the Americans guessing until the last moment about whether they would even appear. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z We knew the Soviets would read the notes. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z In the Space Race, the Soviets were still winning. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z It soon became clear that the Soviets meant to use Powers as a pawn in a campaign to embarrass the United States. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z In 1962, CIA officials learned that the Soviets might be willing to exchange Powers for a senior KGB agent, Colonel Rudolf Abel, who was then languishing in a US federal prison in Georgia. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z When and where had the Soviets dragged my father away? Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z The KGB watched and followed all US citizens working for the American embassy in Moscow, because, as the Soviets knew, any one of them could be an undercover agent for the CIA. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z So Americans were glad to have the Soviets do the bloody work of fighting Hitler. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Army Counter-Intelligence and the FBI still believed Oppenheimer was sneaking information to the Soviets. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Jerrie, who often hung back in conversations due to her shyness, spoke up with her opinion about the plane, which the Soviets had been having trouble with. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z “Did you fight jihad? Did you abandon everything you had and risk your life? If not for the Mujahideen, we’d still be the Soviets’ servants, remember. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z If Soviets were prepared to move on from the atomic to the Super on their own, they might well beat the Americans to the prize. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z She was going to have her work cut out for her, because now the Soviets were on the offensive again. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z When I complained at the dinner table, Papa yelled at me and told me to never, ever say anything derogatory about the Soviets. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z It was a unique moment in the life of a charismatic prodigy in that, to arrive where he was, he’d somehow overcome his objections to how he’d been treated by the Soviets over the years. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Was Hall really an American double-agent, feeding false data to the Soviets in order to make them waste their time and resources on bomb designs that wouldn’t work? Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z They stayed with the Soviets until the end of the war. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z If the United States canceled the tests, it would lose technological ground to the Soviets; if it staged them, the nation would “lose the confidence of the Free World as the champion of peace.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z His intelligence experts had just told him the Soviets wouldn’t have the bomb until the middle of 1953. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z His mission was to play as many masters as possible and to emulate the Soviets’ training regimen for the Yugoslav tournament. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z They were convinced that he was continuing to grow as a player, and that unless something were done quickly, he’d smash the Soviets’ hegemony. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z On the top four boards, the Soviets managed to win only one game out of a possible sixteen. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Because Rodin was known to MI6, the Soviets assigned Blake a new KGB contact, Sergei Kondrachev, who worked in the Soviet embassy in London as a junior official in charge of cultural events. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z If the Soviets were going to get an atomic bomb any time in the near future, they were going to have to steal it. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z By the time World War II began, Gold had given the Soviets every bit of useful information the Pennsylvania Sugar Company had in its files. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z By the late 1970s, the Soviets had come up with a version that had two docking ports. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z “Do you need to hear the speech I prepared about how we need girls like you to save us from the Soviets?” The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z But he was not alone in his belief that the Soviets were engaged in foul play inside the United States. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Was all of that information tainted or manipulated by the Soviets to mislead the Americans and their allies? Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Even after he retired from the Navy, Walker continued to spy for the Soviets by recruiting his son and his brother—both naval personnel—to work with him in exchange for money. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Ronald Reagan's words and actions shocked the Soviets. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z As Bentley mastered the techniques of spying, her assignments for the Soviets grew. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z The Soviets made them saw the handles off. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z Having completed their own tests, the Soviets would have America boxed in a corner over Hardtack. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Saville Sax would act as courier between Hall and the Soviets. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Chess was not merely a game to the Soviets; it was war, and not as cold as might have been thought. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z The Soviets were regularly battling more than 200 German divisions. Oliver Stone Rewrites History — Again 2012-11-25T03:37:22Z In 1949, the Soviets successfully detonated their first atomic bomb, ending the United States’ nuclear monopoly — and arguably stripping Hersey’s “Hiroshima” of its perceived propagandistic menace. Long After the Bomb, Its Story Finds a New Audience 2020-10-12T04:00:00Z An enlarged, framed version of Shamim’s passport photograph from the day she left Afghanistan hangs in the restaurant’s main dining room, among many others photos that evoke happier times in Kabul, before the Soviets invaded. They Fled Afghanistan for America. Now They Feed the Newest Arrivals. 2022-04-18T04:00:00Z Yeah, that venerable technique of “enhanced interrogation” has been used as torture at other times in history, Rodriguez admits, including by the Nazis, the Soviets and the witch-hunters of the Spanish Inquisition. Oh, the suffering of the CIA: In Showtime’s “The Spymasters,” America’s chief spooks bare their souls on the pain of the terror war 2015-11-28T05:00:00Z The Bolsheviks kept the rest, and over time, the Soviets sold the eggs to fund their government. Stories of revolution in Russia’s St. Petersburg 2017-10-24T04:00:00Z In Moscow, the Soviets quickly set up a lab run by the scientist Igor Kurchatov to try to develop the bomb first. In This True-Life Spy Story, It’s America vs. Russia, the Early Years 2018-04-10T04:00:00Z Given the Soviets’ overwhelming advantages, most in the West thought the invasion would be over within a month. ArtsBeat Blog: Soviets Invade Finland, in Real Time 2011-11-30T19:16:10Z One of those images, released by the usually secretive Soviets, is in the Metropolitan Museum’s show and reprinted in the catalogue. Perspective | The most stirring photo from the Apollo mission wasn’t of the moon. It was of the Earth. 2019-07-15T04:00:00Z President Ronald Reagan traveled to West Berlin and gave a speech calling on the Soviets to “tear down this wall.” The Berlin Wall fell 25 years ago And by placing Hall’s leaking of nuclear secrets to the Soviets within the context of the couple’s romantic and robust marriage, James gently wraps the viewer in the warmth of Joan’s memories. ‘A Compassionate Spy’ Review: Back to the U.S.S.R. 2023-08-03T04:00:00Z Undermining the Mujahideen is critical for the Soviets as they suffer heavy casualties in the Afghanistan war. 'The Americans' recap: Nina, Elizabeth seduce their targets 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z In a Cold War context, much was being made about the way the Soviets were stretching the boundaries of mental illness to label dissidents as mad in order to incarcerate and forcibly medicate them. Psychiatry’s Legitimacy Crisis 2012-08-08T20:52:00Z The Soviets, who built the first nuclear power plant in 1954, considered themselves the finest reactor engineers in the world, and masters of gigantic engineering projects. Looking Again at the Chernobyl Disaster 2019-04-03T04:00:00Z This canine high-altitude pressure suit was created by the Soviets in the late 50s at the height of the space race. Dogs in space: a cosmonaut's best friend 2010-07-17T23:05:00Z We were warned that many Soviets would see us as enticing marriage prospects because marriage to a Westerner offered an easy way out. Modern Love: Breaking Free From the Nesting Doll 2013-08-01T20:02:45Z They’re arguing, mostly over the idea of asking the Soviets, who have an icebreaker near by, for help. Big Miracle: A Slice of 80s Nostalgia, With a Side of Whale 2012-02-02T17:37:40Z Encouraged by the Soviets, Ukrainian nationalists robbed and murdered Poles, killing around 600 and pillaging numerous houses and estates. The Eagle Unbowed by Halik Kochanski – review 2012-11-09T22:55:09Z Looking back, the Soviets were doomed to lose the culture war. 2010-02-03T21:58:00Z The rest of Germany was split in two, with the Soviets controlling the eastern side and the Allies controlling the west. Europe: 100 years of war and transformation In the 1930s the Soviets infiltrated Cambridge University and ensnared five young men who would go on to spy against Britain for decades. Newly Released Books 2011-03-16T21:19:35Z The Soviets and Americans are racing to space, and the Soviets have pulled ahead by launching the first human-made object into the Earth’s orbit. ‘Space Dogs’ Review: To Boldly Go Where No Dog Has Gone Before 2022-02-14T05:00:00Z He took two breaks from school to travel to Afghanistan and fight the Soviets. Read “Guantánamo Diary” 2015-02-13T05:00:00Z Muir-Harmony said Kennedy purposely chose not to aim just one step ahead of the Soviets. A new era in spaceflight: Back to the moon on the way to Mars 2018-11-02T04:00:00Z Reagan didn't believe the Soviets would honor such an agreement. Archives shows rarely seen Reagan documents in DC 2011-01-05T19:39:19Z The Soviets who took over held power for 40 years, but they arranged their own deportations of dissidents to Siberia during that time and later downplayed the suffering of Jews during the Holocaust. On Holocaust Remembrance Day, the U.N. Hears of a Little-Known Killing Field 2023-01-27T05:00:00Z Many of the older Estonians living abroad are still afraid to go and visit, not to mention move back to Estonia, because of their deep fear and hatred of Soviets. A Conductor on Why He Stayed in Russia After the Invasion Began 2022-03-14T04:00:00Z In 1946, when “Hiroshima” was first published, American reporters correctly predicted that the Soviets would be hostile to his story and attempt to suppress it. Long After the Bomb, Its Story Finds a New Audience 2020-10-12T04:00:00Z Abu Al-Hool is next, an older Egyptian mujahideen who follows campaigns against Soviets and Americans in Afghanistan, Russians in Chechnya and finally the Americans in Iraq. Brian Van Reet’s ‘Spoils’ moves fiction about the Iraq War into new territory 2017-04-28T04:00:00Z In the 1920s and ’30s Hammer, the manufacturing tycoon, helped supply Western currency to the Soviets, in exchange for their loot of aristocrats’ Fabergé jewelry, Easter eggs, picture frames and stone animals. Antiques: A Faberg? Exhibition Without ?Fauxberg?s? 2011-06-30T20:30:04Z He made a big deal out of the prowess and panache of the Soviets. Cold War Puck: The Beauties of Russian Hockey 2014-11-19T05:00:00Z They realized that, with a worldwide audience lapping up the franchise, it would be fiscally irresponsible to write off the whole Communist world by casting Soviets as bad guys. The James Bond Films at 50: A Golden Franchise for the Ages 2012-10-05T12:00:58Z After the Soviets took over they razed Kurylenko’s factory, and he vanished into the prison camp system. Antiques: Antiques Auction Shows on Television 2012-01-26T22:51:53Z These parapsychology experiments were, in part, a cold war government’s response to the fear that Soviets were using “psychoenergetic warfare”. What happened when I went to psychic school 2018-09-10T04:00:00Z Here now is her newest, “Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets,” a sprawling examination of life in Russia after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the rise of a feral brand of capitalism. Review: In ‘Secondhand Time,’ Voices From a Lost Russia 2016-05-24T04:00:00Z And while it tipped the balance of power until the Soviets developed their own nuclear weapon in 1949, this brief American advantage produced no geopolitical gains. Coming Close to Nuclear Holocaust 2020-10-13T04:00:00Z While the 1979 accident at Three Mile Island prompted American engineers to re-examine reactor designs, the Soviets did not bother. Looking Again at the Chernobyl Disaster 2019-04-03T04:00:00Z The ISI also worked closely with the CIA on organizing the mujahedin against the Soviets. 'The Killing of Osama Bin Laden' by Seymour Hersh details a grave threat to our democracy 2016-04-14T04:00:00Z But he quickly returns to the cloak-and-dagger world of agents, double agents, deceit and danger when it emerges that the Soviets have infiltrated Britain's spy agencies. Classic Le Carre spy novel gets movie makeover 2011-09-05T11:36:49Z After the Soviets invaded Czechoslovakia in August 1968 and a cultural crackdown followed, Passer and Forman fled Prague the following January. Ivan Passer, a leading Czech New Wave filmmaker, dies at 86 2020-01-10T05:00:00Z Meanwhile the Soviets were having some successes in Europe by focusing on individual politicians. How Generations of Russians Have Tried to Influence American Elections 2020-06-30T04:00:00Z Afterward, when the Soviets withdrew from Afghanistan and, as Slahi has put it, “the Mujahiden … started to wage Jihad against themselves,” he withdrew, too. Read “Guantánamo Diary” 2015-02-13T05:00:00Z “Bond outwits the Russians rather than outmuscles them, and effectively scuppers the Soviets’ designs on Western destabilization.” When Russia was the villain: How this moment echoes the era of Cold War spy novels and ‘Rocky IV’ 2022-03-10T05:00:00Z Pontecorvo was a communist, and it was no surprise when, five years later, the Soviets revealed that he had been working for them, allegedly on peaceful applications of atomic power, since his defection. Frank Close: What I'm thinking about ... Higgs Boson and nuclear spies 2012-08-18T09:36:59Z In order to deter the Soviets, however, the president and everyone around him had to pretend otherwise. Nuclear Nightmares 2020-01-28T05:00:00Z Before World War II and during the Cold War, Bulgarians and Soviets designed bomb shelters in the basements of apartment buildings throughout Sofia, with separate spaces for each family. Breathing New Life Into Bulgaria’s Cold War Bunkers 2018-05-02T04:00:00Z “Tinker, Tailor” is partly based on the case of Kim Philby, one of a handful of British spies and Cambridge University alumni who were recruited by the Soviets in the 1930s. | 'Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy': ?Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy,? With Gary Oldman - Review 2011-12-09T00:00:43Z Back in the 80s, as former film star President Ronald Reagan was decrying the Soviets as an “evil empire”, cinema screens were similarly teeming with inflated male flesh. Brawn again: why Hollywood's muscle heroes are bigger than ever 2018-09-18T04:00:00Z And everyone, including ministers and police officers, is nervous about what the Soviets will do. ‘Burning Bush,’ an Agnieszka Holland Film on Communism 2014-06-10T04:00:00Z Rather, they became double victims of the Soviet system: imprisoned by the Germans, because they were so poorly armed and led, and then, if they survived, imprisoned by the Soviets. My grandfather, who finally came back from the second world war in 1981 2018-01-13T05:00:00Z But that doesn't justify him getting into bed transparently with the Soviets. In "Mr. Jones" James Norton plays a journalist who uncovers the truth of the Ukrainian genocide 2020-06-20T04:00:00Z Unsurprisingly, given Reitman's family history, the Soviets in the film were just as incompetent. From "Meatballs" to "Ghostbusters," Ivan Reitman was the anarchic boomer voice for Gen X nihilism 2022-02-16T05:00:00Z There was nothing to glorify the Soviets in this somber, bitter opera, and Weinberg, a Polish Jew who fled to Russia in 1939, was never beloved by the state. New York Premiere for a Long-Suppressed Opera 2014-07-04T04:00:00Z Ramius’s intentions are a mystery to both the Americans and the Soviets, as well as to the audience. Jack Ryan Still Just Wants to Sit at a Desk 2018-08-22T04:00:00Z The best scene in Wednesday night’s episode of “The Americans” on FX was a moving evocation of late-stage Cold War insecurity, as both Americans and Soviets soberly contemplated the reality of an all-out nuclear exchange. ‘The Americans’ Season 4, Episode 9: Cold War Insecurity Meets TV’s Golden Age 2016-05-11T04:00:00Z In November 1982 the Salang Tunnel, a treacherous but vital artery for the Soviets in Afghanistan, became an inferno for troops trapped inside by an explosion. 'The Americans' Recap: Intimacy in the Line of Duty 2015-02-25T05:00:00Z My parents and my grandparents never trusted the Soviets, but life here in the West makes you forget certain realities. A Conductor on Why He Stayed in Russia After the Invasion Began 2022-03-14T04:00:00Z There had been this moment of Gagarin in space, the possibility that the Soviets may even win the cold war. For young Soviets, the Beatles were a first, mutinous rip in the iron curtain 2013-04-20T13:00:01Z Consider the IMF Treaty, limiting intermediate-range nuclear weapons, which he signed with the Soviets in the last year of his presidency. Rick Perlstein's 'The Invisible Bridge' spans Nixon-Reagan transition 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z She was writing about these miserable families, mothers and daughters who just can’t get along, husbands and wives who hate each other, under the Soviets. Masha and Keith Gessen on Writing About Russia 2019-03-17T04:00:00Z As winter takes its toll on the attackers, the tide turns and the Soviets battle their way to Berlin. History man Al Stewart digs deep for musical 'time passages' 2014-08-11T04:00:00Z This source material was a bestseller by the Polish army lieutenant Slavomir Rawicz, who was imprisoned by the Soviets after their invasion of 1939, accused of spying and sent to the Siberian gulag. The Way Back ? review 2010-12-23T15:00:00Z We appeared to have reached an impasse with the Soviets over the location of missiles in eastern Europe, when Margaret stood over an air vent and allowed her skirt to billow. The Real Iron Lady by Gillian Shephard – digested read 2013-04-07T17:30:01Z When the Cold War was at its height, she vociferously asserted that the Soviets differed from the Gospels only in the methods they used to achieve equality. Was Dorothy Day a Saint or a Subversive? 2020-03-03T05:00:00Z The Soviets had the Iron Curtain; Mr. Putin, with his troll armies and cynical meme warfare, has the Irony Curtain. Ukraine on TV: We’ve Seen This Before. And We’ve Never Seen Anything Like It. 2022-02-25T05:00:00Z Initial speculation is that it may be the Soviets at work. Weird suburbia: How atomic bombs and UFOs created modern America 2014-03-16T18:00:00Z He wore dark glasses because he suffered snow blindness as a young man in Siberia, where his family was exiled by the Soviets. Poland's Walesa to pay last respects to foe Jaruzelski 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z It is totally barbaric, horrible, inhuman and shocking, yet ultimately unsurprising: In 1944, the Soviets did the same to Estonia, practically carpet bombing Tallinn to the ground. A Conductor on Why He Stayed in Russia After the Invasion Began 2022-03-14T04:00:00Z Conveniently, the Soviets launched Sputnik three days after Fairchild was incorporated, inaugurating a torrent of money into the tech sector that only increased with the space race. How the Department of Defense Bankrolled Silicon Valley 2019-07-09T04:00:00Z Between Shades of Grey is about a Lithuanian girl called Lina whose town is taken over by the Soviets. Between Shades of Grey by Ruta Sepetys - review 2012-05-21T14:00:00Z During that era, black working women had few opportunities beyond becoming nurses or teachers, so the women faced a lot of discrimination to help their country beat the Soviets to the moon. The ‘Hidden Figures’ stars on how working at NASA in the 1960s is a little like Hollywood 2016-12-22T05:00:00Z But the Soviets, perhaps sensing the tug of history, relented and he was granted a visa and allowed to play for the New Jersey Devils and keep his salary. 'Red Army' explores Russia's soul through Olympic hockey, Slava Fetisov 2015-01-20T05:00:00Z In a defiant speech to a room full of officials, Samba paraphrases Lenin, declaring that “Socialism is the Soviets, plus electrification, plus the twist!” ‘Dancing the Twist in Bamako’ Review: Youth in Revolt 2023-02-22T05:00:00Z Like any good spy story, this one involves Kim Philby, who stole secrets for the Soviets while working for British intelligence. Splitting atoms, sharing secrets 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z He theorizes that the outcome of the Cuban missile crisis prevented the Soviets from intervening; they didn’t want another confrontation with the United States. Review: ‘Iraqi Odyssey’ Shows the Arc of a Family and a Country 2015-11-26T05:00:00Z Chess was a game the Soviets owned, but Fischer had been a force to be reckoned with since he was a child. Review: ‘Pawn Sacrifice,’ Another Take on the Royal Game 2015-09-15T04:00:00Z Georgia’s polyphonic folk tradition fared better than sacred music during that period, but the Soviets professionalized folk music and encouraged arrangements for large choirs, often at the expense of authenticity. music: In Georgia, Sacred Chants Reverberate Once Again 2010-08-06T22:14:00Z For years, I rooted for the Soviets in hockey against everyone but the United States and the Philadelphia Flyers. Cold War Puck: The Beauties of Russian Hockey 2014-11-19T05:00:00Z What is sometimes forgotten is that days before their Olympic meeting, the Americans were trounced by the Soviets in an exhibition game at Madison Square Garden. ‘30 for 30’ Re-examines the Miracle on Ice 2015-02-06T05:00:00Z The Soviets claimed eastern Poland, which resulted in Poland’s boundaries shifting to the west. Europe: 100 years of war and transformation The movie portrays the Soviets as plucky underdogs held back by a lack of resources, scheming sports bureaucrats, and health problems. We are the champions: basketball film wows Russians before election 2018-01-23T05:00:00Z He noted that under the Soviets’ totalitarian regime, Premier Nikita Khrushchev was able to operate in secret without any challenge. Masters of their medium: JFK on TV, Trump on Twitter 2017-05-15T04:00:00Z Eventually, with the Soviets defeated, all the nations of the world were invited into the liberal fold, where they were encouraged to embrace free markets and democratic self-government. Pankaj Mishra Challenges America’s Self-Deceptions 2020-10-06T04:00:00Z Depero was an innovator on par with the Soviets, Poles and Dutchmen in this collection. The Artists Who Redesigned a War-Shattered Europe 2020-12-17T05:00:00Z After the annexation of Czechoslovakia by the Soviets, Anka fled again with her second husband – to arrive as a refugee, "happy and lucky, in Cardiff". Terezín: the Nazi camp where music played amid the horror 2013-04-05T16:41:48Z To the Soviets, these were the embodiment of Polish nationalism, a force that had to be exterminated in the interests of communism. The Eagle Unbowed by Halik Kochanski – review 2012-11-09T22:55:09Z She was also making a brave statement of resistance by battering the neo-Classical and folk traditions the Soviets required of their composers. Piano sonatas at Monday Evening Concerts and Piano Spheres reveal futuristic visions 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z That was when the Soviets signed a “nonaggression pact” with Germany that seemed to put the European communists and fascists on the same side. Into the Baltic Sea, but out of the Cold: Revisiting Berlin and St. Petersburg 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z The Soviets moved a table and chairs into his cell and conducted his interrogations from his bedside. Kennedy-Nixon 1960 election clash: The last time Russians intervened in a U.S. election 2017-01-28T05:00:00Z “Beating the Soviets in space was important for the United States’ place in the world.” A new era in spaceflight: Back to the moon on the way to Mars 2018-11-02T04:00:00Z The film spends a good bit of time on the game, but first it lays the groundwork with a detailed look at how the Soviets became a world hockey power. ‘30 for 30’ Re-examines the Miracle on Ice 2015-02-06T05:00:00Z What Lenin’s victory brought, of course, was not worker control or “all power to the Soviets,” as he promised, but civil war and dictatorship of the Bolshevik Party. Condoleezza Rice on the 10 Days Still Shaking the World 2017-10-17T04:00:00Z Nazis and Soviets alike condemned modernism, favouring nationalistic conservatism and social realism respectively; Shostakovich shines for steering a tricky path through Stalinist aesthetics without losing his style. TV highlights 19/02/2013 2013-02-19T06:59:01Z Such was the dehumanisation of the Soviets that Sting could wonder in song if "the Russians love their children too". Is the new Red Dawn a blast from the past? 2012-11-23T20:15:01Z Yovanovitch was the child of immigrants who had fled the Soviets and the Nazis — a family history that she briefly recounts with tenderness and immediacy. In ‘Lessons From the Edge,’ How an Ambassador to Ukraine Became a Casualty of the Trump Administration 2022-03-16T04:00:00Z This is the swampy world of postwar Rome in which Wächter died, believing himself “to be hunted by Americans, Poles, Soviets and Jews,” as Sands writes. Following the Trail of a Nazi Mass Murderer Who Was Never Caught 2021-02-02T05:00:00Z Ah, but there's a new war, with the Soviets. Foyle's War; Our Girl – TV review 2013-03-25T07:00:00Z Advertisement Advertisement The Rosenberg case’s focus on the theft of atomic bomb secrets overshadowed the industrial and other military technology that American spies were accused of delivering to the Soviets. Bad Cheer: The Holiday Exchange Precipitating ‘Bridge of Spies’ 2015-11-25T05:00:00Z Taking a leave from the CIA — which is preoccupied with the Soviets and interested in Nazis only insofar as it might recruit them in the anti-communist cause — Wiley follows Schramm to Buenos Aires. Review | In ‘The Accomplice,’ a CIA analyst turns the hunt for a Nazi into a personal quest 2019-11-14T05:00:00Z Ellsberg describes the Kennedy administration’s efforts to create more flexible options in the case of war with the Soviets. Is Nuclear War Inevitable? 2017-12-28T05:00:00Z Nobody was sure who he worked for, the Soviets sometimes believing him to be a triple agent. Readers suggest the 10 best … spies – in pictures 2013-04-19T14:39:00Z Rocky Balboa prevailed against the Soviets’ fiercest boxer. When Russia was the villain: How this moment echoes the era of Cold War spy novels and ‘Rocky IV’ 2022-03-10T05:00:00Z It's important to make a distinction between that and the opinion of the Afghans when the Soviets invaded. Documentary on Afghan war attempts to show what soldiers experience 2010-07-07T20:35:00Z But the Soviets seized it all – Lenin himself signed the decree to expropriate the works – and Shchukin fled to France. Searching for signs of the Soviets in St Petersburg 2016-10-22T04:00:00Z But when the Nazis and Soviets invaded Poland, Feingold was sent to a Siberian labor camp at just 17, where he remained for six and a half years. Joe's Violin: a Holocaust survivor, a schoolgirl and an unlikely friendship 2016-04-16T04:00:00Z Until 1994, the building was maintained by the Soviets, with a tank outside, some exhibits and a plaque. Essay: In Europe, Sharing Moments With History 2012-10-10T20:43:02Z Its portrait of what the author called “the progress of the Russian Soviets and their two dictators” would have been found less offensive, he wrote, “if the predominant caste in the fable were not pigs.” Exhibition Review: ?In the Company of Animals? Opens at the Morgan Library 2012-03-02T21:47:25Z According to various records and his own untrustworthy accounts, Mateusz fought for the Poles, he fought for the British, he fought for the Nazis, he fought for the Soviets. Review: ‘The Tailor of Inverness,’ a Father-Son Tale at Brits Off Broadway 2015-04-19T04:00:00Z The old Soviets apparently were very good at compartmentalizing their agents from one another. ‘The Americans,’ Season 5, Episode 8: The Humanization of Elizabeth 2017-04-25T04:00:00Z One of his brothers had been killed fighting against the Soviets in Afghanistan. The death of Osama bin Laden: how the US finally got its man 2012-10-12T22:00:09Z In eastern territories, which suffered “double occupation”, first by the Soviets under the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact and then by the Nazis, at least 90% of them perished. Re-examining the Holocaust 2015-10-22T04:00:00Z Before emigrating to the US, Halmi was twice captured during the Second World War in his native Hungary, once by the Nazis and again by the Soviets while spying on behalf of the Americans. US TV producer Halmi dies aged 90 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z The quintessence of this was the Miracle on Ice, in 1980, when a bunch of American college kids beat the Soviets, the best hockey team in the world. Cold War Puck: The Beauties of Russian Hockey 2014-11-19T05:00:00Z “The U.S. and the Soviets were like two parents splitting up a family,” Jefferies said. Jim Jefferies explores how the U.S. and North Korea ended up on the verge of nuclear war 2017-08-09T04:00:00Z Yet if the Soviets knew much more about Deng than other foreign observers, the archives quoted in the two authors’ latest work do not offer a lot of evidence. Still in the shadows 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z Fear that the Soviets would land on the moon first hung over the mission. The hard-charging space program: Breakthroughs, breakups and breakneck 2019-06-18T04:00:00Z A chance to relaunch his career came in 1935 when conflict between the Japanese, Chinese and Soviets over choice parts of the Orient was growing. TV review: Storyville: Hitler, Stalin and Mr Jones; Michael Johnson: Survival of the Fastest 2012-07-05T21:20:01Z Their outstanding know-how was treated as superfluous by the Soviets, but it survived. Special Report: A Cut Above: Jewelry: Jewelers Attracted to Mysterious and Ancient Obsidian 2011-03-17T14:30:44Z The book recounts Pal Sarkozy's aristocratic upbringing in Hungary, occupied by the Nazis then the Soviets, and his escape to Paris, with a one-month stint in the Foreign Legion on his way to the capital. Sarkozy Sr.'s tell-all book counters critics 2010-03-28T22:31:00Z The censorship and propaganda tolerated in the Stalin era by some of the Western journalists helped the Soviets perpetuate immense cover-ups. How Stalin’s Control of Foreign Reporters Helped Shape Russia Coverage Today 2023-07-03T04:00:00Z In 1950 they had been spies in the US, but the Soviets exfiltrated them back to Moscow, in a panic following the exposure of Fuchs and other spies, just weeks before Pontecorvo disappeared. Frank Close: What I'm thinking about ... Higgs Boson and nuclear spies 2012-08-18T09:36:59Z Philip and Elizabeth are attracted to Kimberly because her father heads an elite CIA group that helps mujahideen rebels fight the Soviets in Afghanistan. 'The Americans' recap: Teen party girl could be a KGB asset 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z When the Soviet Union went back to being Russia, did the people have to learn how to speak Russian again after being Soviets all those years? Style Invitational Week 1085: Eww-venirs The Czech writer Milan Kundera wrote about kitsch as a kind of false emotion that the Soviets used for propaganda, to manipulate people for political ends. 2009-12-28T16:02:00Z During her tenure, Raphel also had to confront a civil war in Afghanistan that had been stoked by U.S. and Pakistani intelligence agencies’ support for Islamist radicals fighting to oust the Soviets. Who is Robin Raphel, the State Department veteran caught up in Pakistan intrigue? 2014-12-16T05:00:00Z With Henry Ford’s top architect, Albert Kahn, as their consultant, the Soviets squeezed wealth out of the countryside on the road to creating a socialist society after an initial epic fail. We Are What We Manufacture 2018-03-09T05:00:00Z It would be hard to imagine the Soviets allowing an American filmmaker to shadow five comrades for many months. In Post-Soviet World: Ordinary 2011-03-21T16:59:00Z And if the Soviets thought the US really was communing with aliens, all the better. The real Men in Black, Hollywood and the great UFO cover-up 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z As the Soviets close in, many of Hitler's people either desert him or commit suicide. Downfall: opening the book on the final days of Adolf Hitler 2013-05-16T09:14:08Z When the Soviets attack, it is Steiner, not Stransky, who earns the Iron Cross. Cross of Iron: gritty story of the German retreat from the Soviet Union 2013-04-18T07:59:49Z It wasn’t the Soviets, with their magnificent temples to the arts, that haunted him; rather, it was the fear that American talent might be wasted. Perspective | John F. Kennedy became a hero to American art lovers — but he wasn’t one himself 2017-06-19T04:00:00Z Even the shah would blame the Soviets and British for having a hand in being ultimately pushed from power. Iran’s Iraj Pezeshkzad, who wrote ‘My Uncle Napoleon,’ dies 2022-01-14T05:00:00Z And his film's vision of the great patriotic war, with its noble, heroic Soviets and swinish Germans, will hardly be remembered for its even-handedness. Nikita Mikhalkov has been Burnt By the Sun of state patronage 2010-04-30T10:58:00Z When faced with the Soviets and their Christmas cancellation, Slovenians didn't abandon their celebrations. There's no comfort & joy in Melania Trump's bleak and impersonal Christmas decor 2020-12-12T05:00:00Z The subject concerns the genetically engineered Orango, half-man, half-ape, who becomes the embodiment of western capitalism at its most bestial, before being captured by the Soviets and put on show to the public. Shostakovitch: Orango; Symphony No 4 – review 2012-07-11T14:46:20Z It’s the early 1980s and the KGB is determined to infiltrate a high-level CIA unit that is helping mujahedin rebels battle the Soviets in Afghanistan. 'The Americans' recap: KGB targets troubled CIA agent 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z Only McKone ever changed his wardrobe; the Soviets provided him with a blue, pinstriped suit to change into for his interrogations. Kennedy-Nixon 1960 election clash: The last time Russians intervened in a U.S. election 2017-01-28T05:00:00Z In 2014, the Indian Space Research Organization successfully pulled off the Mars Orbiter Mission, outdoing the Americans, Soviets and Europeans by reaching the planet on its first try — on a shoestring budget, to boot. An Indian Space Mission Inspires a Bollywood Reckoning 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z Before Moscow's disastrous decade-long war in Afghanistan, starting with its invasion in 1979, the Soviets exercised enormous influence in the country, giving large amounts of aid and supporting education and the arts. Is it curtains for Afghanistan's fading silver screen? 2012-05-17T06:17:29Z Eventually the Soviets captured her and she was sent to a Soviet war camp for over a decade. Polish nurse, 97, recalls training for a war that terrified her 2019-08-27T04:00:00Z But about a month after Luna 2 struck the moon’s surface, the Soviets launched Luna 3. Perspective | The most stirring photo from the Apollo mission wasn’t of the moon. It was of the Earth. 2019-07-15T04:00:00Z In 1962, the United States was at the height of its Cold War "Sputnik" fear: it had the edge in consumer prosperity, but the Soviets were the masters of something more important: outer space. Film review: Double Take 2010-04-01T21:25:00Z Adolf Hitler enjoyed listening to “Ode to Joy” on his birthday; the Soviets and Maoists liked it, too. Authoritarian hold music: How Donald Trump’s banal playlist cultivates danger at his rallies 2016-03-16T04:00:00Z After the war and settled in England, she funneled highly classified material to the Soviets, including essential details for making the atomic bomb. Review | For your pandemic playlist: 3 new audiobooks that will whisk you away — for a few hours, anyway 2020-10-13T04:00:00Z Those Mitteleuropean vowels doubled as Russian for audiences trained to see Soviets as drones. Rambo and the Terminator: the cold war warriors are back 2019-10-12T04:00:00Z Hungarians, including her father, prefer to lament their fate at the hand of the Soviets. Daddy dearest 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z The Americans later won the gold medal, something virtually everyone assumed the Soviets would be carrying back to Moscow. ‘30 for 30’ Re-examines the Miracle on Ice 2015-02-06T05:00:00Z The young Ben and his surviving family lived in the Ukrainian forest until they were liberated by the Soviets. He Gave David Lynch His Start. Now, at 82, He’s a New Director. 2017-07-26T04:00:00Z Also lending hands are a Greenpeace worker, two Minnesotans with a portable de-icer, the Alaska National Guard, the Reagan administration, the Soviets and even a journalist or two. Movie Review: ?Big Miracle,? With Drew Barrymore and John Krasinski 2012-02-03T01:26:43Z Their national identity was lost on neither the Czar nor the Soviets, both of whom regulated the genre extensively. When Ukrainian Music Wasn’t Under Threat, It Thrived 2022-05-13T04:00:00Z And far too much attention is taken by the wretched Jester, a character fecklessly added to “Swan Lake” by the Soviets. Dance Review: A ?Swan? Of Complex Shades 2011-02-14T05:15:08Z Or that the American government was hunting Yeti through the Himalayas in the 1950s, spooking the Soviets into accusations that our monster hunt was all about espionage. Remembering the Time Meat Fell From the Sky 2020-07-21T04:00:00Z His family is originally from Kandahar, but his parents fled to Pakistan when the Soviets invaded in 1979, two years before he was born. French Fries and Chapli Kebabs, Hot From the Skillet 2021-06-22T04:00:00Z He was bruised, but not badly, and was shortly thereafter kidnapped by the Soviets and shipped off to Siberia. Why "Stranger Things" should have let Hopper stay dead 2022-06-04T04:00:00Z The Soviets had the Bolshoi Opera and Ballet, they had Prokofiev, Shostakovich and Nureyev, of course, and in 1957, they had Sputnik. Perspective | At 50, Kennedy Center can no longer be a cultural island 2021-09-01T04:00:00Z Mekas and his circle saw the Germans as liberating them from the Soviets; and he characterized the newspapers as provincial, not Nazi. Jonas Mekas: A Poet With a Movie Camera 2019-01-27T05:00:00Z Britain wanted its colonies, America wanted to ignore its “black” problem, the Soviets were against allowing any ethnic distinctions, and the principle of self-determination for peoples mandated against these preferences. ‘Rooted Cosmopolitans’ Review: Of Persons and Peoples 2018-05-08T04:00:00Z They also uncovered new facets in the story, including the phony family that the Soviets invented for Abel that greets Donovan in East Berlin as he arrives to feel out the situation. For Spielberg, ‘Bridge of Spies’ is culmination of a Cold War fascination 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z Some colleagues argued it would be a wasteful folly because the Soviets sealed their borders tightly. Isaac Patch, who led CIA-financed program to distribute books in the Soviet Union, dies He covered the Prague Spring, in 1968, when the Soviets invaded Czechoslovakia to suppress the Dubček reforms, and his pictures of the armed, hard-faced occupiers singing and dancing in Prague spoke for themselves. Priya Ramrakha’s Brief, Heroic Life as a Conflict Photographer, in Africa and Beyond 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z Back then, Mr. Muratov said, the Soviets gave a similar justification for their invasion. Russian Journalist to Auction Nobel Medal to Benefit Ukraine 2022-06-01T04:00:00Z The culprit could’ve been the last guest — or maybe the Soviets. I spy the Columbia Inn at Peralynna People watched irreverent movies about tyrants and allowed their derision to ring through open windows, where the Soviets could hear them. ‘The Festival of Insignificance,’ by Milan Kundera 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z He explained that when he went to Afghanistan he "saw the war between the Taliban and the Northern Alliance as a continuation of the war between the mujahideen and the Soviets". America's 'detainee 001' ? the persecution of John Walker Lindh 2011-07-10T16:08:00Z A narrator recounts the pioneering flight of Laika, the Muscovite street dog who orbited the Earth when the Soviets launched her into space in 1957. ‘Space Dogs’ Review: No Dogs Go to Heaven 2020-09-10T04:00:00Z Kerzhentsev’s task was to correct culture, which meant correcting the top composer in the land of the Soviets: Shostakovich. The Fact and Fiction Behind Shostakovich’s ‘Lady Macbeth’ 2022-10-06T04:00:00Z There are other stories about partisans, a bear who became a Polish forces mascot, and there's a powerful lament for those sent by the Soviets to camps in Siberia. Katy Carr: Paszport – review 2012-11-08T22:11:01Z After seeing the movie, my father told me that he had been on a mission for Ike to get to the “salt mines” before the Soviets. Monuments Men: A Baltimore writer learns her father helped in the search for Nazi plunder Cold war capitalist ideology construed the Soviets as different for two reasons – not only did they belong to another political-economic system, they didn't seem to possess the same emotions that "we" do. Is the new Red Dawn a blast from the past? 2012-11-23T20:15:01Z But, second, he offered the assurance that America could peacefully finesse this confrontation through “a policy of firm containment” to check the Soviets’ expansionist tendencies. Books of The Times: ?George F. Kennan? by John Lewis Gaddis - Review 2011-11-23T00:16:55Z And his 2007 feature Katyń, about the gruesome second world war massacre covered up the Soviets, is arguably his towering achievement. A short history of Polish cinema 2011-04-06T13:41:35Z Surely this information will solidify her allegiance to the Soviets … except. ArtsBeat: ‘The Americans’ Recap: A Fake Rock and a Fake Relationship (or Two) 2014-03-06T04:00:35Z It didn’t want the Soviets — the only other world superpower at the time — to get ahead in space exploration. A new era in spaceflight: Back to the moon on the way to Mars 2018-11-02T04:00:00Z Here he does a fine job as the sturdy Janusz, a Polish man accused of spying on the occupying Soviets. The Way Back: A Good Walk, Almost Spoiled 2011-01-21T09:35:00Z The 1984 film pitted Soviets soldiers invading the United States against a group of American high school students. When Russia was the villain: How this moment echoes the era of Cold War spy novels and ‘Rocky IV’ 2022-03-10T05:00:00Z According to Engel, “he had effectively broken his word given to the British, the Americans, the French and the Soviets … but Kohl succeeded in seizing the initiative while others dithered.” Yearning for an Earlier Era of American Diplomacy 2017-12-08T05:00:00Z For decades, having gotten rid of the German population, the Soviets were bent on eradicating any vestiges of the traditional old city. Books of The Times: ?Forgotten Land? by Max Egremont - Review 2011-12-28T22:10:01Z Kennedy framed the quest as politically imperative — beating the Soviets in the space race — but also as an almost spiritual matter of vulnerability and courage. ‘We Choose to Go to the Moon’: Kennedy dream inspires a dance 2015-09-11T04:00:00Z It survived a terrible siege by the Germans during World War II and a form of architectural reeducation under the Soviets, but the public squares, streets, and canals retain their original DNA. St. Petersburg’s Architectural Gems 2015-09-16T04:00:00Z Bond deftly thwarts the Soviets’ plans while avoiding open conflict. When Russia was the villain: How this moment echoes the era of Cold War spy novels and ‘Rocky IV’ 2022-03-10T05:00:00Z In fact, the Soviets became caught up in a tragedy of Aeschylean scale, whose unintended consequences have reshaped the world. In the line of fire: theatre and Afghanistan 2010-07-21T22:00:00Z You could conceivably consider it a warning about nuclear power, but it’s really about the dangers of seeking adventure in a foreign country and trusting former Soviets. Movie Review: ‘Chernobyl Diaries,’ Co-Produced by Oren Peli 2012-05-25T21:37:16Z Philip wonders whether their kids are not better off as Americans than as Soviets. TV Tonight: The Americans 2013-01-30T13:00:11Z Like the Soviets as well, Bresson recognized sound as a material element, observing in “Notes” that “the noises must become music.” Review: Bresson and the Elliptical Economies of a Master Filmmaker 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z The reconstruction reversed many changes made by the Soviets after the 1917 revolution. Joy and Nostalgia in Moscow as Bolshoi Theater Reopens 2011-10-29T01:50:11Z While his forward-looking style attracted the ire of the Soviets, Lutoslawski valued beauty in music, creating sensual and emotional works notable for their alluring textures, harmonically rich chords and colorful sound palettes. Music Review: A Lutoslawski Tribute Includes ‘Bukoliki’ 2013-12-17T22:09:30Z An icon of the stage, Makarova was beloved for her grandeur and spontaneity, the same qualities that led her, in 1970, to become the first Russian ballerina to escape the Soviets. How Natalia Makarova changed the ballet world with this landmark production 2020-05-26T04:00:00Z The pot the ideologically blinkered Soviets couldn’t figure out how to stir is now being roiled by their pragmatic successors. How Generations of Russians Have Tried to Influence American Elections 2020-06-30T04:00:00Z “And you have committed treason against your country,” he adds, referring to FBI surveillance logs Stan surrendered to the Soviets. 'The Americans' recap: Soviets put squeeze on FBI agent 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z By remote control they gutted his enemies like goats and then delivered him, the nemesis of the Soviets, red-handed to the Americans. 'The Americans' Recap: It Means Nothing to Me 2015-04-15T04:00:00Z Several of the reporters later claimed that they had been suspicious of the propaganda operation, yet none rebutted the Soviets’ version of events. How Stalin’s Control of Foreign Reporters Helped Shape Russia Coverage Today 2023-07-03T04:00:00Z George Stroganoff-Scherbatoff told the Dutch that his family had owned "Adam" and "Eve" when they were seized by the Soviets. Court seems to boost claim to 'Adam' and 'Eve' at Norton Simon Museum 2014-07-04T04:00:00Z We were segregated from ordinary students in special classes and a dorm designated for foreigners and the carefully chosen Soviets who could be trusted to live with us. Modern Love: Breaking Free From the Nesting Doll 2013-08-01T20:02:45Z The tsars’ successors, the Soviets, proclaimed lofty ideals but in governing such a vast land they, too, became consumed by the tyrannic paranoia that plagued their forebears. Prison without a roof 2016-08-18T04:00:00Z Then she spots a familiar crowd of people who "less resemble passengers in a check-in line than practiced Soviets jockeying for the last loaf of bread." 'There Was and There Was Not' crosses Turkish-Armenian divide 2014-11-28T05:00:00Z She spent part of World War II in a Siberian labor camp, and was later relocated by the Soviets to Kazakhstan. ‘Reinventing Rosalee’ Review: A Centenarian Who Won’t Slow Down 2019-04-04T04:00:00Z The U-2 incident was fresh, and the Soviets had quickly set up an exhibit with the wreckage. For Spielberg, ‘Bridge of Spies’ is culmination of a Cold War fascination 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z Even false alarms could be perilous, defense agencies worried, since the Soviets might take advantage of the situation by simulating or staging a U.F.O. wave and then attack. ‘Project Blue Book’ Is Based on a True U.F.O. Story. Here It Is. 2019-01-16T05:00:00Z Once the Soviets withdrew, and US interest waned, the Taliban rose. Nadeem Aslam: a life in writing 2013-01-26T10:00:03Z So nuking Japan was aimed at impressing the Soviets. Oliver Stone: how America went wrong 2013-04-15T17:07:33Z The movie portrays the Soviets as plucky underdogs held back by a lack of resources, scheming sports bureaucrats, and health problems. We are the champions: basketball film wows Russians before election 2018-01-23T05:00:00Z Afghanistan was certainly disastrous for the Soviets, but few would argue that arming the future Taliban turned out well for the US. The real US policy toward Nelson Mandela 2013-12-12T12:35:00Z The homogenized factory wine produced under the Soviets — pronounced “garbage” by one Georgian and necessitating the destruction of hundreds of varieties of grapes — is a stain that these dedicated craftsmen are eager to erase. Review: In ‘Our Blood Is Wine,’ Raising Glasses to Tradition in an Ex-Soviet State 2018-03-15T04:00:00Z The issue of Jewish suffering during the war was a touchy one under the Soviets because they thought it detracted from the country’s enormous human loss. Review: 'The Passenger' Gets Long Awaited Full Staging at Bregenz Festival 2010-08-03T14:00:00Z Matsov then smuggled each tape home as a way to keep the music in circulation, in case it was banned by the Soviets. Guest conductor Olari Elts to lead SSO Shostakovich program 2014-01-24T01:35:08Z "It was a creative revolution how they played as a team," he said, comparing the punishing, aggressive manner of North American hockey to the exactness and fluidity of the Soviets. 'Red Army' explores Russia's soul through Olympic hockey, Slava Fetisov 2015-01-20T05:00:00Z Thus for some of the most critical years of this biography, the Soviets were probably as much in the dark about the goings-on of China’s political elite as the Americans were. Still in the shadows 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z The Soviets believed that President Harry S. Truman had dropped atomic bombs on Japan to “show who was boss,” as the Soviet Foreign Minister V. M. Molotov later put it. Long After the Bomb, Its Story Finds a New Audience 2020-10-12T04:00:00Z They may have wanted to take the fight directly to the Soviets, but containment and détente were the prevailing watchwords of Democratic and Republican administrations alike. America’s forgotten war 2012-11-23T15:00:00Z Army was racing against time to locate the treasure before the Nazis could transport it to Switzerland or before the Soviets, moving westward, could get their hands on it. Monuments Men: A Baltimore writer learns her father helped in the search for Nazi plunder The best hope lay with the Soviets clearing a channel, but the danger was that the ship would kill the whales. Drew Barrymore saves the whales and melts cold war ice in Big Miracle 2012-02-09T13:12:00Z Chevy Chase and Dan Aykroyd play two totally incompetent low-level government employees who are set up as decoys to distract the Soviets from the real spies who've been sent in to hijack some nuclear missiles. Scarecrow Video recommendations for "Cars 2" 2011-06-23T13:07:17Z Both times the Soviets walked away without a word. ‘The Americans’ Season 5, Episode 3 Recap: More Than This 2017-03-21T04:00:00Z After I walked through the kolkhoz’s dilapidated buildings and a church where the Soviets stored fertilizers and chemicals I asked Olena what her life was like. On Christmas Eve in Ukraine, the Church Is Chilly (or Is It?) 2017-12-23T05:00:00Z In the new album, Rhys imagines the life and achievements of Feltrinelli, the wealthy political activist who fought the Nazis as a partisan but then challenged the post-war Soviets for the sake of art. Gruff Rhys album in 'secret' launch 2013-05-02T07:04:03Z Despite this formal capitulation, the Soviets treated captured troops as PoWs rather than civilian internees: Kore-eda Sr was one of approximately 500,000 men sent to labour camps. Hirokazu Kore-eda: ‘They compare me to Ozu. But I’m more like Ken Loach’ 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z By then, the Soviets had already sent Méndez, a Cuban man of African descent, into space as part of the USSR’s Intercosmos program. Breaking the color barrier: behind the long fight to diversify space 2020-02-24T05:00:00Z The first is that Israel’s leading enemies, Egypt and Syria, had themselves been “Vietnamized” by huge supplies of arms from the Soviets, and the Americans felt that they needed to respond in kind. Israel falls into the "Vietnam trap": Increasingly brutal tactics will only lead to disaster 2023-10-28T04:00:00Z The Chinese and Soviets were Cold War rivals for influence among left-leaning states, but China and Russia have since partnered in the economic, military and diplomatic spheres. Putin begins visit in China underscoring ties amid Ukraine war and Israeli-Palestinian conflict 2023-10-16T04:00:00Z But for some Ukrainians, these veterans are viewed as freedom fighters, who only fought alongside the Nazis to resist the Soviets in their quest for an independent Ukraine. Canada Nazi row puts spotlight on Ukraine's WWII past 2023-09-28T04:00:00Z Nagorno-Karabakh has over the centuries come under the sway of Persians, Turks, Russians, Ottomans and Soviets. Ethnic Armenians flee Karabakh after breakaway region's defeat 2023-09-25T04:00:00Z Nagorno-Karabakh, known as Artsakh by Armenians, lies in an area that over centuries has come under the sway of Persians, Turks, Russians, Ottomans and Soviets. Nagorno-Karabakh's 120,000 Armenians will leave for Armenia, leadership says 2023-09-24T04:00:00Z Nagorno-Karabakh, known as Artsakh by Armenians, lies in an area that over the centuries has come under the sway of Persians, Turks, Russians, Ottomans and Soviets. Karabakh's 120,000 Armenians will leave for Armenia, adviser to leader says 2023-09-24T04:00:00Z Azerbaijan's claim of victory over the region ushers in yet another twist to the tumultuous history of mountainous Nagorno-Karabakh, which over the centuries has come under the sway of Persians, Turks, Russians, Ottomans and Soviets. Azerbaijan says it sees amnesty for Karabakh fighters who lay down arms 2023-09-22T04:00:00Z At the time, Ukrainians resented the Soviets for their role in the Great Ukrainian Famine of 1932-33, also known as Holodomor, which killed an estimated five million Ukrainians. Canada Nazi row puts spotlight on Ukraine's WWII past 2023-09-28T04:00:00Z The spy game between the U.S. and China is even more expansive than the one that played out between the Americans and the Soviets during the Cold War, said Christopher A. Wray, the F.B.I. director. Monday Briefing: China and the U.S. Vie for Secrets 2023-09-17T04:00:00Z We boycotted the Olympics in Moscow in 1980 because the Soviets invaded Afghanistan. Granderson: Enough with sending NBA stars like LeBron James to the Olympics 2023-09-14T04:00:00Z Mr Putin went on to say that countries in the West, primarily the US, were now making the same mistake as the Soviets made then. Soviet invasions of Hungary and Czechoslovakia were wrong, Putin says 2023-09-12T04:00:00Z This city of 43,000 in central Ukraine owes its modern existence to the Soviets, who discovered uranium ore here in 1951. He was a beloved resident of this Ukrainian city — and the great uncle of Russia's most infamous warlord. Should he be canceled? 2023-08-23T04:00:00Z They also argue that their collaboration with Nazi Germany was short-lived, and that they had eventually fought both the Soviets and the Germans for a free Ukraine. Canada Nazi row puts spotlight on Ukraine's WWII past 2023-09-28T04:00:00Z In effect, the West had insulted the 27 million Soviets lost to the war, among them Mr. Putin’s older brother. Putin’s Forever War 2023-08-06T04:00:00Z After the Soviets put an end to the Prague Spring, “The Joke” was banned as antisocialist. Appreciation: In a world full of lies, Milan Kundera taught us how to be free 2023-07-13T04:00:00Z The opening of a Catholic charity is a significant move, Bernadelli said, signaling the church’s path forward in the nation that was officially atheist under the Soviets and where the largest religion is Buddhist. Pope Francis’ trip to Mongolia in September will be closely watched by Russia and China 2023-07-06T04:00:00Z Opponents of the statue argued that the Soviets had erected it — and not a Ukrainian poet — as part of an oppressive campaign to stamp out Ukrainian culture. He was a beloved resident of this Ukrainian city — and the great uncle of Russia's most infamous warlord. Should he be canceled? 2023-08-23T04:00:00Z Decades later, one of the architects of the covert strategy against the Soviets has published a memoir that calls on President Joe Biden’s administration to do more to support Ukraine’s resistance against Russia. He was the CIA whiz kid in ‘Charlie Wilson’s War.’ His new book offers advice for the US in Ukraine. 2023-07-04T04:00:00Z But some Hurricanes were deliberately broken up and buried after the war so the Soviets did not have to pay back the United States. Ukraine finds British WW2 Hurricane planes outside Kyiv 2023-07-02T04:00:00Z “We had conclusive proof the Soviets were doing that, but the CIA said it wasn’t toxin weapons but bee droppings,” he said. Former intel officials pan DNI report on virus that says origin in wild rather than government lab 2023-06-28T04:00:00Z By his own admission, he began selling secrets to the Soviets in 1979 and carried on his activities, with intermittent pauses, for years. This week’s passages 2023-06-09T04:00:00Z For nearly 20 years, FBI agent Robert Hanssen was leaking highly sensitive material to the Soviets. Robert Hanssen: The fake job that snared FBI agent who spied for Moscow 2023-06-06T04:00:00Z The war’s rising toll led the Soviets to pull back from the war, slowly transferring responsibility to the local communist government and ultimately withdrawing in 1989. He was the CIA whiz kid in ‘Charlie Wilson’s War.’ His new book offers advice for the US in Ukraine. 2023-07-04T04:00:00Z If the Soviets had landed on the moon first — and included women in their crew — how would the world be different today? 9 shows you should make time for 2023-05-30T04:00:00Z The first few months were a horrendous disaster for the Soviets. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z In the summer of 1943, the Soviets, fresh from saving Stalingrad, went on the offensive against the Germans. World History: from 1400 2022-12-14T00:00:00Z Around 50 countries took part with the Soviets dominating with 126 golds followed by East Germany with 50. Russia to launch Friendship Games after 40-year gap - sports minister 2023-05-04T04:00:00Z Nevertheless, she can’t bring herself to go, even over the objections of her father, a former mujahideen member who fought the Soviets. Review | Who escapes and who must stay? Stark choices amid Afghanistan evacuation. 2023-04-27T04:00:00Z His Jewish grandfather had to change his name to sound more Russian when the Soviets took control of his native western Ukraine at the end of World War II. Life in Ukraine’s Trenches: Gearing Up for a Spring Offensive 2023-04-29T04:00:00Z The German advance between June and December 1941 opened a front stretching from the Baltic to the Black Sea, representing a terrible loss of territory and life to the Soviets. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z He disliked the concessions Roosevelt had made that allowed the Soviets to install a communist government in Poland. World History: from 1400 2022-12-14T00:00:00Z A Polish town that was once occupied by the Soviets used to embrace its history with military re-enactments and Lenin banners. Australia Eyes a Fraught Pivot from Coal Power to Renewables 2023-04-28T04:00:00Z “Word came the Soviets were going to officially charge Daniloff with espionage,” he noted in his diary on Sept. 7. Opinion | What a KGB arrest of a journalist in 1986 tells us today 2023-04-24T04:00:00Z Over the centuries, the enclave has come under the sway of Persians, Turks, Russians, Ottomans and Soviets. Explainer: What is Nagorno-Karabakh - and why are tensions rising? 2023-04-24T04:00:00Z Incredibly, the Soviets were able to use this breathing room to literally dismantle their factories and transport them to the east, outside of the range of the German bombers. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z The Soviets exacted retribution on the Germans largely by removing and transporting back to the Soviet Union virtually anything they considered useful to rebuilding their own industrial sector destroyed by the war. World History: from 1400 2022-12-14T00:00:00Z Efforts by Bandera-led forces to carve out an independent territory for Ukraine led them to perpetrate atrocities against Poles, Jews and Soviets. Polish-Ukrainian friendship masks a bitter, bloody history 2023-04-05T04:00:00Z But he was not paying royalties for those devices to his licensee, and thus the Soviets, which angered the government once Rogers told them. The dramatic tale of how ‘Tetris’ became a phenomenon 2023-03-31T04:00:00Z It was the first time the Soviets both ever expressed regret and paid reparations, Winkler told the AP last summer, and the summit went on as planned. Alaska Native Scouts feted 67 years after rescuing Navy crew 2023-04-01T04:00:00Z The threat of world war terrified every sane person on the planet, but beyond that, the threat of conventional military intervention by the Soviets was almost as threatening. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z The Soviets demanded the return of all their citizens. World History: from 1400 2022-12-14T00:00:00Z For the most part, they believed that if you gave the Soviets, the Chinese or Islamic State so much as an inch in Korea, Vietnam, the Middle East or elsewhere, dominoes would begin to tumble. Opinion: Democrats flip red, Republicans flip blue on one major issue. Is it permanent? 2023-03-27T04:00:00Z Maxwell liberally interpreted his agreement with the Soviets to determine “computer” as any electronic device, including arcade and console machines. The dramatic tale of how ‘Tetris’ became a phenomenon 2023-03-31T04:00:00Z The Soviets built “the world’s largest locomotive, bulldozer, sugar factory, iron smelter” and so on, one critic, Serhiy Marchenko, wrote on Facebook. Restoring a Giant Plane: Ukrainian Resilience or Folly? 2023-03-27T04:00:00Z The Suez Crisis demonstrated that the US dominated the policy decisions of its allies almost as completely as did the Soviets theirs. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z Recognizing they could not defeat the resolve of the Western Allies, the Soviets ended the blockade in May 1949. World History: from 1400 2022-12-14T00:00:00Z The Soviets sent some 11,000 experts in 1954-58 to help China rebuild after its civil war, according to Joseph Torigian, an associate professor at American University’s School of International Service. China and Russia: explaining a long, complicated friendship 2023-03-22T04:00:00Z The windows face the botanical garden and VDNKh, a vast exhibition space built in the Joseph Stalin era to showcase and glorify economic achievements of the Soviets. Xi’s cocoon in Moscow: A Chinese-owned hotel over Red Square opulence 2023-03-21T04:00:00Z It was swallowed whole by Russia in the early 19th Century, becoming independent after the Russian Revolution of 1917, only to be invaded by the Soviets during World War Two. Turkey's Erdogan seals deal on Finland joining Nato 2023-03-17T04:00:00Z For the Soviets, of course, only a fanatical resistance to German aggression could save their nation and their lives. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z U.S. president Dwight Eisenhower, anxious not to give the Soviets an excuse to intervene, threatened to impose economic sanctions on France, Israel, and the United Kingdom if they did not comply. World History: from 1400 2022-12-14T00:00:00Z During that period, the Soviets took Polish army officers as prisoners and moved them to Russia. Opinion | Alleged war crimes in Ukraine echoes Soviet history 2023-03-05T05:00:00Z But the accused, while not denying the photos existed, insisted they played no role in his decision to give the Soviets information. Arne Treholt, Norwegian official and Russian spy, dies at 80 2023-02-21T05:00:00Z Further, few of Reagan’s advisers agreed at the time that the administration’s goal was to spend the Soviets into the ground or topple their empire. Review | ‘The Peacemaker’ holds up Ronald Reagan as the Cold War’s victor 2023-02-24T05:00:00Z And, finally, by 1955 the Soviets had formalized their own military system with the Warsaw Pact, which bound together the Soviet Bloc in a web of military alliances comparable to NATO. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z Some political conservatives in England and France hoped for a German alliance against the Soviets, as did Hitler. World History: from 1400 2022-12-14T00:00:00Z Carter soon openly criticized the Soviets for denying Russian Jews their basic civil rights, a violation of human rights protections outlined in the diplomatic agreement called the Helsinki Accords. Jimmy Carter's lasting Cold War legacy: His human rights focus helped dismantle Soviet Union 2023-02-19T05:00:00Z The Soviets viewed him as a left-wing idealist and anti-imperialist critic of U.S. policies who, because of his connections, was headed for a promising future as a political leader. Arne Treholt, Norwegian official and Russian spy, dies at 80 2023-02-21T05:00:00Z Forget the U.S. hockey team knocking off the mighty Soviets at the 1980 Winter Olympics. Column: Take that, all you imaginary haters! 2023-02-17T05:00:00Z Many American military leaders believed at the time in the possibility of a “limited nuclear war” in which missile sites would be destroyed quickly enough to prevent the Soviets from launching counter-strikes. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z In April 1941, the Soviets signed a Neutrality Pact with Japan, freeing both nations from the prospect of a multiple-front war. World History: from 1400 2022-12-14T00:00:00Z Carter adviser Stuart Eizenstat argues that the administration attacked the Soviets "in their most vulnerable spot — mistreatment of their own citizens." Jimmy Carter's lasting Cold War legacy: His human rights focus helped dismantle Soviet Union 2023-02-19T05:00:00Z The two countries have had warm relations for 30 years, because the Soviets backed the African National Congress, or A.N.C. — now the governing party — in the fight against apartheid. South Africa and Russia Are Old Friends. A War Isn’t Going to Change That. 2023-02-17T05:00:00Z I once asked former CIA director Richard Helms what he had made of Angleton’s case that the Soviets had poisoned every operation. Opinion | Sometimes the story is about the spies who aren’t there 2023-02-16T05:00:00Z This was a case in which both the Soviets and the Chinese directly supported an invasion in the name of spreading communism, something that would become far less common in subsequent conflicts. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z On a military mission to London in July 1942, General Eisenhower was deeply disappointed in Churchill’s approach, considering how badly the Soviets were suffering from German offensives. World History: from 1400 2022-12-14T00:00:00Z Carter's move effectively engaged the Soviets in a proxy war that began to bleed the Soviet Union. Jimmy Carter's lasting Cold War legacy: His human rights focus helped dismantle Soviet Union 2023-02-19T05:00:00Z They became such a nuisance that the Soviets built specially designed planes to shoot them out of the sky. Balloons Are Latest Example of Old Tactics in Ukraine War 2023-02-16T05:00:00Z He ordered the paralyzed division handling the Soviets to get back to work spying in the late 1960s, with a version of his characteristic admonition “Let’s get on with it.” Opinion | Sometimes the story is about the spies who aren’t there 2023-02-16T05:00:00Z The western Allies agreed to let the Soviets carry out the actual invasion of Berlin, a conquest that took eleven days of hard fighting. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z Partisan resistance groups sprang up, the largest among the Dutch, the French, the Polish, the Soviets, and the Yugoslavs. World History: from 1400 2022-12-14T00:00:00Z Carter also imposed an embargo on U.S. grain sales to the Soviets in 1980. Jimmy Carter's lasting Cold War legacy: His human rights focus helped dismantle Soviet Union 2023-02-19T05:00:00Z Fans of the classic 1964 black comedy “Dr. Strangelove” will remember a moment when the mad doctor warns the president about an impending “mineshaft gap” between the United States and the Soviets. Opinion | With Chinese balloon, a hidden Cold War contest drifted into the open 2023-02-10T05:00:00Z The Soviets convicted Powers of spying and sentenced him to three years in prison and seven more years of hard labor before releasing him in February 1962 in the trade arranged by Donovan. A Foreign Spy Craft. Superpowers on Edge. But It Was 1960, Not 2023. 2023-02-05T05:00:00Z The one direct confrontation between the two camps took place between May of 1948 and June of 1949, when the Soviets blockaded West Berlin. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z By 1942, the Germans, the Soviets, and the Japanese had sent hundreds of thousands of children out of their major cities, and sometimes their civilian parents as well. World History: from 1400 2022-12-14T00:00:00Z The Soviets were overwhelmed by the population boom and struggled to feed their people. Jimmy Carter's lasting Cold War legacy: His human rights focus helped dismantle Soviet Union 2023-02-19T05:00:00Z |
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