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US planned to build a fleet of bird-sized drones to spy on the Soviet Union during the Cold War 

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Newly declassified CIA documents reveal that at the height of the Cold War, the United States planned to develop a fleet of bird-like drones in Area 51 that would be capable of spying on the Soviet Union.  Code-named Project Aquiline, the nuclear-powered drones were designed to stay in flight for up to 30 days at … Read more

The new ‘Cold War’: Ex-minister Green says we should be treating modern China like Soviet Russia

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Britain must toughen up its attitude to China and treat it more like the former Soviet Union in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, a former Cabinet minister warned today. Damian Green said that the contagion, which started in the Asian nation, plus the row over Beijing tech giant Huawei and its access to 5G … Read more

Soviet spy radio that was buried in a former forest in Germany is discovered in mint condition

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‘It’s factory fresh’: Soviet spy radio that was buried in a former forest in Germany 30 years ago is discovered in mint condition by stunned archaeologists Soviet spy radio is found just six miles from military base storing nuclear missiles The radio was found in woodland near Cologne in what was old West Germany Archaeologists who … Read more

Photographer Amos Chapple goes inside the abandoned Soviet sanatoriums in Georgia’s Tskaltubo

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The spa resort of Tskaltubo in Georgia – once known as the Riviera of the Soviet Union – is awash with unique sights. One of the most amazing according to Radio Free Europe photographer Amos Chapple, who visited for three days at the end of January, is that of ‘old ladies shuffling slowly through grand, … Read more