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  • Chad postage stamp honoring Boris Spassky, circa 2012 (rook76/shutterstock.com)
    obituaries RIP Boris Spassky: "one of the greatest chess players of the Soviet era and the world, but also a true gentleman" Ellsworth Toohey
  • By NASA, Jan Rieke (color correction, borders and labels) - NASA World Wind screenshot (Landsat Global Mosaic visual layer), Public Domain, Link
    Science World's deadliest spot: the horror of Lake Karachay Ellsworth Toohey
  • happy mutants 20th Century Men brilliantly flips the Cold War on its head, with superheroes Thom Dunn
  • Soviet Union The Soviet Union's TOPGUN counterpart Andrew Yi
  • CIA CIA releases new documents about Russian telepathy experiments in the 60s Thom Dunn
  • graphic design These weird old Soviet anti-alcohol posters are wild Thom Dunn
  • toys Check out this 1931 Soviet guide to turning potatoes into toys Popkin
  • mario Watch the Super Mario Bros teach Mikhail Gorbachev how to make pizza Thom Dunn
  • mistakes Soviet Lord of the Rings Rob Beschizza
  • Soviet Union A too-typical tragedy of science in the Soviet Union Miss Cellania
  • Soviet Union The great African American escape to Soviet Russia Miss Cellania
  • Soviet Union Waiting for the American Khrushchev: Who will deliver the "Cult of Personality" speech to Americans? Mark Frauenfelder
  • video games You can now play the unauthorized Indiana Jones video game created by Czechoslovak protestors in the 80s Thom Dunn
  • television The time Mikhail Gorbachev starred in a Pizza Hut commercial David Pescovitz
  • books Book of brutalist archictecture postcards from the Soviet era David Pescovitz
  • cameras Umbrella-camera and other Soviet spy cams up for auction David Pescovitz
  • dogs Meet the dogs of Chernobyl Séamus Bellamy
  • books Holidays in Soviet Sanatoriums Andrea James
  • futurism A great look back at Soviet futurism Andrea James
  • Soviet Union Mechanical movements of the Cold War: how the Soviets revolutionized wristwatches Ben Marks
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