why you wouldn039t want to fly on the soviet concorde - the tu-144 story
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while the concorde is often hailed as a triumph of modern engineering the first supersonic transport to ever fly was actually soviet-built the tupolev tu-144 flew even faster than the concorde and it carried more passengers what happened to this aircraft and why have so few heard about itgetting the tu-144 built before the concorde and therefore proving soviet superiority to the world was allegedly a high priority for the soviets the plane was developed under a tight schedule and relied on a few less advanced aviation technologies the tu-144 suffered three known crashes the most famous being at the 1973 paris air show there are conflicting theories on the cause of the 1973 crash in regular passenger service the tu-144 proved unreliable only one flight a week was permitted on a single route between moscow and almaty kazakhstan it is rumoured that soviet leaders were nervous about the 144039s airworthiness and ordered it039s chief designer alexei tupolev to personally inspect every 144

dispatch: egyptian unrest and the former soviet union
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stratfor analyst eugene chausovsky examines the reasons why it is unlikely the unrest in egypt will have a contagion effect on the countries of the former soviet union

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the katyn massacre 1940 mass execution of nearly 22000 polish - youtube
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quotecho looks into one of the last unresolved crimes of the last war: the katyn massacrequotthe katyn massacre was a series of mass executions of nearly 22000 p

hulu - archangel: part 1 - watch the full episode now
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video description: fluke is a maverick academic who attends a conference in moscow about the newly opened soviet archives one night he is visited in his hotel room by papu rapava a former member of the soviet police chief and bodyguard to its chief lavrenty beria

km ekranoplan
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the central hydrofoil design bureau chdb led by alexeev was the center of ground-effect craft development in russia the military potential for such a craft was soon recognised and alexeiev received support and financial resources from soviet leader nikita khrushchev this led to the development of the caspian sea monster a 550 ton military ekranoplan before it some manned and unmanned prototypes were built ranging up to eight tons in displacementthe ekranoplan has a lifting power of 1000 tonnes 984 long tons among the largest ever achieved the km as the caspian sea monster was known in the top secret soviet military development program was over 100 metres 328 ft long weighed 540 t 531 long tons fully loaded and could travel over 400 kilometres per hour 249 mph mere meters above the surface of the water67 another model was the lun-class entering service with the black sea fleet in 1987 the lun-class vehicles had a top speed of 297 knots 550 kmhthe important design principle is that wing lift is reduced as operating altitude of the ekranoplan is increased see ground effect thus it is dynamically stable in the vertical dimension once moving at speed the ekranoplan was no longer in contact with the water and could move over ice snow or level land with equal ease though flight over land would have involved extreme risks unless the surface were dependably flat

the communist internationale original with english lyrics
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down with all forms of tyranny exploitation and oppression class war does exist there simply is a ruling class and there is a working class one day the majority must triumph over the oppression and terror of the minoritythe workers struggle has taken many forms until it arrived to modern day condition of proletariatworker and bourgeoiserich although the ruling class and working class have taken many different forms throughout the development of history the underlying structures of economic exploitation by an elite over the masses has not changed long live the workers of the world the equality of the human race and the supremecy of the workers and people themselvesworkingmen and women of all countries unite

history of ussr for children
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white army and black baron - russian civil war song - english lyrics
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while editing this video my editor refused to cooperate with me therefore the quality of the song is not very satisfactory and i apologize for itthis song 039white army and black baron039 was written by p grigoriev and composed by samuil pokrass a very popular song during the russian civil war it asserts the might of the red army over all of its enemies and difficulties even after the war the song remained very popular among the sovietsif you liked this video give it a thumbs upsubscribe for more similar contentthank you for watching comrades :source: marxist internet archivefollow me on twitter: https:twittercomr_general77

afghanistan: war without end pt 01
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afghanistan: war without end - part 01history of afghanistan

50 hours in a country that doesn039t exist on a map transnistria - youtube
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incredible:us spy plane need to be pursued by car during landing otherwise it crash - lockheed u-2
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this video shows why us lockheed u-2 spy plane need a powerful car traveling at 140-mph 225 kmh to help the u2 spy plane landing on the runway and why it can crash without this precious helpbecause of the tender specifications which required a very light plane the engineer have designed only 2 very primitive landing gear which makes the u2 really unstable during the take off and the landingthe lockheed u-2 nicknamed quotdragon ladyquot is a high altitude surveillance aircraft it have only one powerful jet engine this spy plane is used by the united states air force usaf and previously by the central intelligence agency cia it make monitoring missions during day or night and can reach an altitudes above 70000 feet 21000 m this plane also does research work and development of electronic sensors calibration of satellites and satellite data validationin the early 1950s with the tensions of the cold war rise the us military needed to improve the strategic reconnaissance to det

bbc news: collapse of the berlin wall november 1989
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from the bbc news archive footage of the collapse of the berlin wall in 1989 includes statement by then-prime minister of great britain margaret thatcher

in soviet russia cat pet you
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alex039s cat is strange his name is max instead of getting pet he will actually pet you

auschwitz: drone video of nazi concentration camp
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drone video shows the auschwitz-birkenau concentration camp as it is today - 70 years after it was liberated by soviet troops the camp in poland is now maintained as a world heritage site and is visited by thousands of tourists and survivors every year auschwitz was the largest camp established by the germans during world war ii more than a million people - the vast majority of them jews - died there between 1940 when it was built and 1945 when it was liberated by the soviet armyrailway tracks into auschwitz-birkenau - trains filled with victims from throughout occupied europe arrived at the camp almost every day between 1942 and the summer of 1944ruins of wooden huts at birkenau - birkenau or auschwitz ii was erected in 1941 solely as a death camp the wooden huts are now in ruins with only brick fireplaces and chimneys remainingentrance to auschwitz i -the wrought-iron sign over the entrance bears the words arbeit macht frei - quotwork sets you freequotauschwitz i - the brick-built buildings were the former cavalry barracks of the polish armycourtyard between blocks 10 and 11 at auschwitz i - block 11 was called quotthe block of deathquot by prisoners executions took place between block 10 and block 11 and posts in the yard were used to string up prisoners by their wristsauschwitz birkenau is now a museum run by the polish culture ministry and a unesco world heritage sitesubscribe to bbc news here http:bitly1rbfuogcheck out our website: http:wwwbbccomnewsfacebook: http:wwwfacebookcombbcworldnewstwitter: http:wwwtwittercombbcworldinstagram: http:instagramcombbcnews