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Soviet Union

USSR, Lomo, Stratosphere
Full Episode
Arts, Culture & Media
Theremin
Arts, Culture & Media
Lomo
Arts, Culture & Media
Cultural Exchange
Arts, Culture & Media
Painting in Pre-Glasnost Russia
Arts, Culture & Media
Special Guest: Svetlana Boym
Arts, Culture & Media
Rescuing Cold War History Before It Disappears
Stanislav Petrov made a split-second decision that probably averted a nuclear conflagration. “I told myself I won’t be the cause of World War III. I won’t. Simple as that,” he said.
Conflict
The unsung Soviet officer who averted nuclear war
Omar Hernandez in downtown Moscow. He says problems that came from speaking his mind too freely in Cuba led him to leave in the early 90s. Now he's lives in Russia.
Culture
Is Russia’s romance with Cuba coming to an end?
Nancy
Global Politics
‘2 alpha women’: Nancy Reagan’s icy time with Raisa Gorbachev
Christian Ray Flores became a rock star in post-Soviet Russia in the '90s: "No one knew exactly how to make music like that but I did because I grew up overseas."
Global Politics
The guy who supplied the soundtrack for Boris Yeltsin’s Rock the Vote
The crew and back-up team for Ahad Momand's mission. Momand is third from the left.
Science
The only Afghan to ever fly in space almost didn’t make it back to Earth
Nikolai Pozharuk, a retired lawyer who helped with the search, says that when weeks passed without any sign of the plane, people began to look for other explanations.
Arts, Culture & Media
When a Russian plane vanished without a trace, conspiracy theories filled the void
Arts, Culture & Media
This photographer has found the beauty in Soviet bus stops
Arts, Culture & Media
This photographer has found the beauty in Soviet bus stops
Alina Simone's father, Alexander Vilenkin, at the Kharkov Zoo in 2011. Vilenkin worked there as a night watchman after he was blacklisted by the KGB in Soviet Ukraine.
Conflict & Justice
This Soviet-born émigré remembers working at the Kharkov zoo
Alina Simone's father, Alexander Vilenkin, at the Kharkov Zoo in 2011. Vilenkin worked there as a night watchman after he was blacklisted by the KGB in Soviet Ukraine.
Conflict & Justice
This Soviet-born émigré remembers working at the Kharkov zoo
Vladimir Zhidovich
Global Politics
Here’s a rare glimpse of JFK’s assassin, from his co-workers in Minsk, Belarus
Jazz saxophone great Igor Butman
Arts, Culture & Media
Growing up without religion in the Soviet Union, believing in jazz