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why russia did not put a man on the moon - the secret soviet moon rocket
Bookmarked 497 weeks ago its probably the most well known peacetime battle between the usa and the soviet union in both technological and ideological terms of the 20th centuryalthough the usa won the race to the moon if youd been a betting person from the mid 1950s to 1960s the chances are that you would have thought the soviet union had a very good chance of getting there firstso why didnt russia put a man on the moonat the time the soviets were leading the space race they had already started with the launch of sputnik then launched several probes to the moon including one in 1959 that orbited and taken photos of the far side and by 1961 they were the first to put a man in to spaceso when kennedy made his now famous we choose to go to the moon speech in 1962 to rally public support khrushchevs response was silence neither confirming nor denying that they had a plan for a manned moon missionbut at the time khrushchev wasnt really interested in competing with the us over the moon he w |
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soviet cop thriller 1979
Bookmarked 739 weeks ago great soviet detective movie from the late 70s soundtrack composed by eduard artemev heavy funk drums and crazy analog synths |
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julian assange of wikileaks - oslo freedom forum 2010
Bookmarked 796 weeks ago julian assange is a spokesman and advisory board member of wikileaks a transparency website whose mission is to quotopen governmentsquot and expose human rights abuses it has a core focus on protecting dissidents whistleblowers investigative journalists and bloggers who face state threats and it largely operates by publishing leaks of sensitive documents winners of amnesty international039s 2009 media award for exposing extrajudicial assassinations in kenya assange and wikileaks have recently launched wwwcollateralmurdercom a website that hosts a leaked video of us military forces in iraq apparently slaying over a dozen people indiscriminately in his speech assange chooses to focus specifically on wikileaks039s work against censorship and human rights abuses committed by western governments paraphrasing orwell assange explains that he who controls today039s internet servers controls the intellectual record of mankind he warns us that western governments large corporations and certain wealthy individuals are increasingly able and increasingly trying to remove material permanently from the historical record using sophisticated methods assange reviews wikileaks039s work in uncovering human rights abuses at abu ghraib bagram and guantanamo and discusses the dangerous irony in the us military039s conduct as it decorates its detention centers with quothonor bound to defend freedomquot signs if the west doesn039t reverse its course of increased censorship and rights abuses assange warns it will lose all of the ideals that it once stood formore at http:twittercomoslofreedomfrm |
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vladimir yackshov039s school of russian acting from faster human shawn convery nick gre
Bookmarked 530 weeks ago he will teach you everything you need to know to be working russian actor in hollywood |
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soviet nuclear submarine defects to the united states 1984 - animated - youtube
Bookmarked 152 weeks ago in 1984 a deadly new soviet nuclear ballistic missile submarine leaves murmansk and heads out into the north atlantic the entire soviet navy is looking for |
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039dead hand039 of nuclear war: doomsday machine ready to press red button
Bookmarked 710 weeks ago reducing nuclear stockpiles may be the current trend in global politics this wasn039t always the case there was a time when the united states and the soviet union were poised to do anything to gain the upper hand in a nuclear war - even if that hand was dead |
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quotthe incredible self-surgery of dr leonid i rogosov: a display of bravery and ingenuityquot - youtube
Bookmarked 149 weeks ago in april 1961 a team of 12 members of the soviet antarctica expedition found themselves cut off from the outside world due to a severe winter storm among t |
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masha gessen - the daily show with jon stewart - 022912 - video clip comedy central
Bookmarked 731 weeks ago masha gessen believes that vladimir putin039s power structure will soon face collapse airdate - 022912 |
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stephen cohen on russian protests and quotthe soviet union039s afterlifequot in the nation magazine
Bookmarked 739 weeks ago wwwdemocracynoworg allegations of widespread fraud in the recent elections that gave prime minister vladimir putin039s united russia party a parliamentary majority have galvanized massive street protests in opposition to the russian political establishment this comes on the 20th year anniversary of the breakup of the soviet union quotthe reason that the people that control the financial oligarchy of russia don039t want free elections is they know that the people would vote for candidates pledging to confiscate their propertyquot which was privatized in the 1990s says stephen cohen professor of russian studies at new york university he notes quotthese elections were not free and fair but they were the freest and fairest and 15 yearsquot and that members of the country039s middle class make up the bulk of the protesters cohen also argues the american media has failed to report on the resurgence of the communist party supported mainly by working class voters in russia039s vast provinces which could challenge putin in the 2012 presidential race and force a run-off election his most recent book is titled quotsoviet fates and lost alternatives: from stalinism to the new cold warquot his latest article quotthe soviet union039s afterlifequot appears in the new issue of the nation magazineto watch the complete daily independent news hour read the transcript download the podcast and for more democracy now reports visit http:wwwdemocracynoworgfollow democracy now online:facebook: http:wwwfacebookcomdemocracynowtwitter: democracynowsubscribe on youtube: http:wwwyoutubecomdemocracynowlisten on soundcloud: http:wwwsoundcloudcomdemocracy-nowdaily email news digest: http:wwwdemocracynoworgsubscribeplease consider supporting independent media by making a donation to democracy now today visit http:wwwdemocracynoworgdonateyt |
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regina spektor - silly eye colour generalisations - live in london hd
Bookmarked 710 weeks ago regina spektor perfoms silly eye colour generalisations as part of her far tour live at the hammersmith apollo in london - december 4 2009 tags: regina spektor silly eye colour generalisations live in london hammersmith apollo far tour soviet kitsch begin to hope december 4th 2009 full hd high definition hq high quality 1080p |
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red moon
Bookmarked 730 weeks ago chronicling the life and times of famed soviet submarine commander and hapless werewolf captain alexei ovechkin 2010 official selection 2011 atlanta film festival hollyshorts film festival st louis international film festival and 2012 oxford film festival directed by jimmy marble written by doug sacrison and jimmy marble based on the one act play by doug sacrison starring ben sellon as captain alexei ovechkin oskar dektyr as narrator photography by jaro savol light design by kelly moore edited by kelly moore production design by adi goodrich costume design by martin morse hair and makeup by annie murphy key grip dave mccabe first ac keon javanshire sound design by aaron wiley original score by daniel anderson and dimiter yordanov produced by jimmy marble kelly moore and jaro savol line producer and assistant director katie reardon doug sacrison as federov jimmy marble as zubov martin morse as nobakov annie murphy as sailor 1 greg boudreau as sailor 2 keon javanshire as sailor 3 jaro savol as alexei ovechkin adi goodrich as anna ovechkin katie reardon as anna lyobov paul norton as naval recruiting officer josh gudwin as wedding official max kaiser as baby ovechkin ian hargis as newspaper boy sarah fang as matchstick girl linea norton as girl with jacks justin martinez eric peters aaron wiley and ben sellon as werewolf wwwfacebookcomsiroccoresearch wwwsiroccoresearchlabscom |
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first orbit - the movie
Bookmarked 777 weeks ago a real time recreation of yuri gagarin039s pioneering first orbit shot entirely in space from on board the international space station the film combines this new footage with gagarin039s original mission audio and a new musical score by composer philip sheppard for more information visit http:wwwfirstorbitorg |
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star city
Bookmarked 784 weeks ago cosmonaut training in russia039s star city filmed and edited by luis graham-yooll for cnn039s eye on russia |
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queue to first mcdonalds in moscow in 1990
Bookmarked 734 weeks ago queue to first mcdonalds in soviet union russia in moscow in 1990 year 1990 |