#Cold War
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The Berlin Airlift: How a City Was Fed From the Sky for Eleven Months
In June 1948 the Soviet Union closed every road, rail line and canal into West Berlin, expecting two million people to run out of food within weeks. Instead, aircraft landed every few minutes for nearly a year — and delivered more by air than had ever been thought possible.
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The Lost Cosmonauts: The Soviet Space Deaths That Probably Never Happened
Two Italian brothers claimed to have recorded the dying transmissions of cosmonauts abandoned in orbit — spacefarers the USSR erased from history. The Soviet space programme really did hide failures and doctor photographs. So why do historians overwhelmingly reject this particular story?
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