An American schoolgirl became famous in the USSR after she wrote a letter to the newly appointed Soviet Communist Party General Secretary Yuri Andropov, and received a personal reply which included an invitation to visit the Soviet Union, which she accepted Samantha Reed Smith (June 29, 1972 – August 25, 1985) was an American schoolgirl, […]
Medieval warlord Tamerlane’s tomb in modern day Uzbekistan was allegedly inscribed”Who ever opens my tomb, shall unleash an invader more terrible than I.” Two days after his exhumation, Nazi Germany launched it’s invasion of the USSR “Timur’s body was exhumed from his tomb in 1941 by the Soviet anthropologist Mikhail M. Gerasimov. From his bones […]
Did you know that during the cold war the U.S. allowed the Soviets to pirate software that had a trojan horse in it causing the most monumental non-nuclear explosion and fire ever seen from space. Intelligence shortcomings, as we see, have a thousand fathers; secret intelligence triumphs are orphans. Here is the unremarked story of […]
Did you know that in 1957, an explosion occurred at a plutonium plant in the USSR, resulting in the third worst nuclear accident in history. The government kept it secret for 19 years. The Kyshtym disaster was a radiation contamination incident that occurred on 29 September 1957 at Mayak, a nuclear fuel reprocessing plant in […]