S.R

Those years reminded me more of the U. S.S.R than the U.S.!

RNC members draft new 'socialist' resolution 2009

Since the end of geostrategic competition between the U.S. and the (former) U. S.S.R and with the ideological struggle between Democratic Capitalism and Communism over, pundits have been proposing new conceptual frameworks for understanding the evolving global political and economic balance -- or imbalance -- of power.

Leon T. Hadar: Dump All Those Paradigms: It's Nationalism, Stupid! Leon T. Hadar 2010

Since the end of geostrategic competition between the U.S. and the (former) U. S.S.R and with the ideological struggle between Democratic Capitalism and Communism over, pundits have been proposing new conceptual frameworks for understanding the evolving global political and economic balance -- or imbalance -- of power.

Leon T. Hadar: Dump All Those Paradigms: It's Nationalism, Stupid! Leon T. Hadar 2010

Since the end of geostrategic competition between the U.S. and the (former) U. S.S.R and with the ideological struggle between Democratic Capitalism and Communism over, pundits have been proposing new conceptual frameworks for understanding the evolving global political and economic balance -- or imbalance -- of power.

Leon T. Hadar: Dump All Those Paradigms: It's Nationalism, Stupid! Leon T. Hadar 2010

Air Force General Jack Ripper (Sterling Hayden) goes off the deep end and sends bombers to destroy the U. S.S.R because he suspects that the communists are conspiring to pollute the water supply and the "precious bodily fluids" of the American people.

Peter H. Gleick: Water in the Movies: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly 2010

The U.S. and U. S.S.R collaborated to construct the Kabul-Qandahar highway that fell into near total disrepair during the decade after this photo was taken in 1978.

Connecting Histories in Afghanistan: Market Relations and State Formation on a Colonial Frontier 2008

Anna, you are right. however, there was the same political atmosphere in U. S.S.R when Gorbachev was comming to power, when Nelson Mandela came to power, when a person of minority became the President of India (The worlds largest Democracy).

D-Day in West Virginia 2008

U.S. electronic and satellite eavesdropping enabled both the CIA and the National Security Agency to detect every nuclear weapons test conducted by the U. S.S.R from its highly secret base at Baikonur.

Murray Fromson: Obama, Turkey and History 2009

The accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in the former U. S.S.R was the the second major single exposure to radiation of a substantial population, the first being the radiation from the atomic bombs in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, in 1945.

International response to the Chernobyl accident 2008

This was during the Cold War, and the U. S.S.R had just put the first two satellites into orbit, Sputnik One in September, and Sputnik Two in November.

Happy Holidays From The Gun Nut 2006