In 1956 Soviets proposed a joint project to build a dam across Bering Strait in order to warm the Arctic Ocean but it wasn’t found practicable by the US.
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In Holland’s embassy in Moscow, two Siamese cats kept meowing and clawing at the walls of the building. Their owners finally investigated, thinking they would find mice. Instead, they discovered microphones hidden by Russian spies.
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Eighty percent of Soviet males born in 1923 died in WWII.
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The Soviet Tu4 was a reversed-engineered copy of the US B29 bomber. Copied to such detail that every Tu4 had a rivet hole in one wing exactly where an unknown Boeing engineer mistakenly drilled it in the B29 used as a template.
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In 1936, the Russians made a computer that ran on water.
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The Soviet Tsar Bomba was so powerful it shattered windows 900 km away.
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George Koval, Soviet master spy, infiltrated the Manhattan project, stole nearly all of our nuclear secrets, single-handedly provided the key technology for Russia’s nuclear arsenal, and was only discovered as a spy in 2002. -
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Between 1975-1982, USSR had six probes land on the surface of Venus, surviving temperatures of 855 °F and successfully taking photos.
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The Soviets landed a spacecraft on Venus and took pictures of the surface… 4 times!
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At various times, both Sweden and the Soviet Union made plans to develop moose-mounted cavalries that could operate effectively in deep snow.
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In 1982 the CIA worked with Canadians to give Soviet spies intentionally flawed software for a natural gas pipeline. “The result was the most monumental non-nuclear explosion and fire ever seen from space.”
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During WWII, a single Soviet tank held back an entire German tank division.
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The Soviet Union created a laser tank.
