Cold War history of the Soviet Union

October 1962 confrontation between the Soviet Union, Cuba and the United States

The Committee for State Security (, ), abbreviated as KGB (, ; ) was the main security agency of the Soviet Union from 1954 to 1991. It was the direct successor of preceding Soviet secret police agencies including the Cheka, OGPU, and NKVD. Attached to the Council of Ministers, it was the chief government agency of "union-republican jurisdiction", carrying out internal security, foreign intelligence, counter-intelligence and secret police functions. Similar agencies operated in each of the republics of the Soviet Union aside from the Russian SFSR, where the KGB was headquartered, with many ass

1961 Cold War incident in divided Berlin

over the horizon early warning radar

system that allows direct communication between the leaders of the United States and Russia

Soviet cultural doctrine developed by Central Committee secretary Andrei Zhdanov in 1946 that proposed the world was divided into two camps: the "imperialistic", headed by the United States; and "democratic", headed by the Soviet Union

Soviet program to develop nuclear weapons during World War II

quote by Soviet First Secretary Nikita Khrushchev

Misuse of psychiatry for political purposes in the Soviet Union

Soviet Union aid to rebuild the countries in Eastern Europe

RDS-6s (; American codename: "Joe 4") was the first Soviet test of a boosted fission weapon that occurred on August 12, 1953, that detonated with an energy equivalent to 400 kilotons of TNT.

Russian military doctrine

secret surrender negotiations between the US and German military forces in Italy

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Soviet program investigating peaceful use of nuclear bombs

summit between USA and USSR leaders in 1987

1974 FIFA World Cup qualification play-off

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Cold War era safety precautions, used by spies

meeting between Leonid Brezhnev and Richard Nixon

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affair between Western European powers, the USSR, and the United States regarding the deployment of intermediate range nuclear weapons in Europe.

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