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Two Royal Navy ships intercept missile-carrying Russian Soviet-era submarine through the Channel

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Two Royal Navy ships intercept missile-carrying Russian Soviet-era submarine in the English Channel – as Moscow is accused of meddling in UK Krasnodar submarine was spotted passing through the Dover Strait by Navy French sea service had tracked the vessel after picking it up  in Bay of Biscay Portsmouth’s HMS Tyne shadowed it first as … Read more

Soviet-era postcards in book published by Fuel show the Eastern Bloc in all its brutal glory

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From the sinister to the surreal: Fascinating Soviet-era postcards show the Eastern Bloc in all its brutal glory The postcards, which date from the 1960s to the 1980s, feature in a book called Brutal Bloc Postcards  It features images depicting vast housing blocks, huge industrial factories and monuments to comradeship The book’s publisher, Fuel, says: ‘These … Read more