Posts tagged: Soviet Union

Mikhail Gorbachev, Russian Politburo member and second in line at the Kremlin, announces the death of Soviet Defence Minister Marshal Dmitri Ustinov, before departing from Edinburgh Airport for Russia, in Edinburgh, Scotland, on Friday, 21 December, 1984. Gorbachev was on a week-long trip to Britain in December. (Photo by Bryn Colton/Getty Images)

Mikhail Gorbachev RIP: The Soviet Leader Who Tried for ‘Revolution from Above’

August 31, 2022 | By The Conversation

Mikhail Gorbachev died at 91 on Aug. 30, 2022. A historian of the Soviet era assesses his impact and the consequences of his failed attempts to reform state socialism.

Francis Gary Powers Gets a Silver Star

June 16, 2012 | By Paul Hehn

Fifty years after being released from a Soviet prison, pilot Francis Gary Powers has been posthumously awarded the Silver Star.