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Lt. Gen. Mark Hertling (Ret.) explains the significance of what appeared to be a scaled-back Victory Day parade in Russia as the war in Ukraine continues. Victory Day celebrates the Soviet Union’s defeat of Nazi Germany in WWII. #cnn #news #russia #victoryday #ukraine #parade
Vladimir Putin is hauling 60-year-old tanks out of storage to refit them for his war in Ukraine. #vladimirputin #putin #russia #russianmillitary #ukraine #ukrainewar #ukrainewarrussia #russiawarukraine #russiaukrainewar #coldwar #sovietunion #ussr #soviet #tanks #military | Why Is Russia Wheeling 60-Year-Old Tanks Out of Storage?
Comrade, did you know, too, that you were a star? Laika rode a rocket into Earth orbit, 2,000 miles above Moscow streets she knew. Laila was a stray female dog, who was used in a soviet launch after the initial launch of Sputnik 1. Sputnik 2 would go into orbit with the final stage of the rocket attached, and engineers believed the ship’s 1,120-pound payload, six times as heavy as Sputnik 1, could be kept within limits by feeding its passenger only once. Recalls reports that a female physician broke protocol by feeding Laika before liftoff. They expected Laika to die from oxygen deprivation—a painless death within 15 seconds—after seven days in space. On November 3 at 5:30 a.m., the ship lifted off with G-forces reaching five times normal gravity levels. The noises and pressures of flight terrified Laika: Her heartbeat rocketed to triple the normal rate, and her breath rate quadrupled. She reached orbit alive, circling the Earth in about 103 minutes. Unfortunately, loss of the heat shield made the temperature in the capsule rise unexpectedly, taking its toll on Laika. During and after the flight, the Soviet Union kept up the fiction that Laika survived for several days. Laikas name continues to be remembered. #laika #laikathespacedog | You did not know how special you were. | I like to imagine you above us in the black heavens walking twice about in a circle before lying down on your celestial bed and dreaming of your own private sea of tranquility. | Our hero of destiny, our victim of invention, our tiny lady of progress. | I like to think that you saw our humble planet from above and understood. | An angel flung to space, small and perfect and beautiful, wreathed in stars, in your alien ship from the future. | Comrade, did you know that you, too, were a star?
An obelisk that was the centrepiece of a controversial Soviet-era monument has been destroyed in the Latvian capital of Riga over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Latvia’s ethnic Russian community had protested against the monument being removed. #soviet #latvia #latviantiktok #russia #ukrainewar | Huge Soviet-Era Monument Demolished Despite Russian Protests
This week is 31 years since Ukraine became independent from the USSR and six months since Russia invaded. #ukraine #ukrainewar2022 #ukrainerussia #independencedayukraine #rave #lithuania #vilnius | People Held a Massive Rave for Ukraine's Independence Day | Celebrations to mark Ukraine’s independence from the Soviet Union couldn’t be held in Kyiv this year, so a huge free rave was organised in Lithuania instead.
Lithuania is a tiny former Soviet republic home to 2.7 million people that shares borders with Russian ally Belarus and the Russian enclave of Kaliningrad, and its people fear Russia will invade next. #russia #lithuania #ukrainewar #invasion | Welcome to ‘The Most Dangerous Place on Earth’
A makeshift pipeline was being used to transport bootleg alcohol out of #Ukraine into neighbouring Moldova. #alcoholtok #vodka #pipeliner #LearnOnTikTok | An illegal “vodka pipeline” was discovered transporting bootleg alcohol out of Ukraine into neighbouring Moldova. | The vodka highway is part of a Soviet-era network of pipelines to transport cheap Russian vodka into neighbouring states. | A 300m Vodka Pipeline Was Just Discovered in Ukraine
Russian shoppers are literally fighting each other for sugar. In scenes reminiscent of the last days of the Soviet Union, Russians are scrambling to get their hands on basic goods. #Russia #Putin #sanctions #shortage
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