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The Flyers 4 to 1 victory over the Soviet Red Army Hockey team in 1974
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Red
Army
Team
Added: 29th July 2007
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Posted By: Chris |
 
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President John F. Kennedy announces that American spy planes have discovered Soviet nuclear weapons in Cuba, and that he has ordered a naval "quarantine" of the island nation.
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kennedy
cuban
missile
crisis
Added: 22nd October 2007
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Posted By: Naomi |
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Robin Williams plays a Russian circus musician who defects from the Soviet Union while on a visit to the United States. This clip shows how overwhelming a supermarket can be to someone use to having shortages all their life!
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Moscow
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Hudson
Robin
Williams
Added: 26th November 2007
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Posted By: Cliffy |
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Chess was front page news and on the cover of Time Magazine in the summer of 1972 when American Bobby Fischer challenged world champion Boris Spassky of the Soviet Union. Fischer, 29, had been prominent on the chess scene since 1958 when he won the U.S. championship just before he turned 15. The Soviet Union had dominated international chess for 25 years, but Spassky was bamboozled by Fischer's unpredictable openings. Fischer clinched the 24-game match, held in Reykjavik, Iceland, after 21 games with a record of seven wins, three losses, and eleven draws. Fischer's victory generated tremendous interest in the game in the United States. Known as the 'Fischer Boom,' membership numbers in the U.S. Chess Federation reached their peak in the following two years. The eccentric Fischer never defended his title. He opted to resign as world champion in 1974 when not all of his 64 conditions to defend against Anatoly Karpov were accepted by chess' governing body. Since then Fischer has been a recluse. He did make an appearance in 1992 to play his old rival Spassky in a specially arranged match in Yugoslavia. (This violated UN sanctions against Yugoslavia at the time.) Fischer won the match and proclaimed he was still the legitimate world champion. Despite having Jewish ancestry, Fischer is an anti-Semite and a passionate Holocaust denier. Fischer called a Manila talk-radio station to applaud the 9/11 terrorist attacks in a profanity-filled rant. Fischer now lives in Iceland where he was granted citizenship.
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Fischer
Boris
Spassky
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Added: 12th December 2007
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It was one of the greatest moments in American sports history--but very few Americans saw it when it actually happened. The 1980 U.S. Olympic hockey team was made up of college players. (North American professionals were ineligible until 1998.) The Soviet Union's state-sponsored "amateurs" had dominated Olympic hockey, winning gold medals in 1956, 1964, 1968, 1972, and 1976. In an exhibition game prior to the 1980 Olympics, the USSR manhandled the awe-struck Americans 11-1 at Madison Square Garden. However, in the medal round of the Lake Placid Olympics, the Americans pulled off an enormous upset, beating the mighty Soviets 4-3. Only those Americans who lived close enough to the Canadian border to pick up CTV's feed actually saw the game live. ABC only showed a tape-delayed broadcast later that evening. (ABC did not want to deprive soap opera fans from seeing General Hospital that day!) Watch the last 90 seconds of the game and listen as a young Al Michaels makes his famous call: 'Do you believe in miracles? Yes!' Two days later the Americans defeated Finland for the gold medal.
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Added: 15th December 2007
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Posted By: Lava1964 |
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The fate of postwar Europe was decided in 1945 at the Soviet Union resort city of Yalta on the Crimean Sea. With Nazi Germany on the verge of defeat, the leaders of the three major Allied combatant nations met to decide the fate of Germany and eastern Europe. Franklin Roosevelt is visibly ill and weary from the long journey. The British Empire is in decline and Winston Churchill can no longer assert any strength. By default Josef Stalin is given free rein to deal with matters in eastern Europe. The Cold War was about to begin.
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Added: 9th February 2008
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Posted By: Lava1964 |
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Here's some rare sports footage from the 1960 Winter Olympics in Squaw Valley, California. It's the deciding goal of the USA's 3-2 victory over the Soviet Union. The game was played in an outdoor rink. Notice the players didn't wear helmets and the goalies didn't wear masks.
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Added: 9th March 2008
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Posted By: Lava1964 |
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The greatest moment in Canadian history: It's September 28, 1972. The hockey Summit Series between Canada and the Soviet Union comes down to the final minute of the final game in Moscow. The score is tied 5-5 after Canada rallies from a 5-3 deficit. Listen to Foster Hewitt call the final four minutes...
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Henderson
hockey
goal
Added: 28th March 2008
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Posted By: Lava1964 |
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This is a Canadian classic: In a famous postgame interview from the 1972 Canada-USSR hockey series, Phil Esposito lashes out against Canadian fans and media who had been dumping on Canada's national team. Espo led the team to a dramatic comeback victory in the Soviet Union.
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Added: 7th June 2008
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Posted By: Lava1964 |
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This is the revised version of The Hymn of the Soviet Union. The original version was written in 1927 and had allusions to Josef Stalin. After Stain died in 1953 and Nikita Khruschev took over, Stalin was discredited. This created a problem with having Stalin's name mentioned in the national anthem. The solution? Keep the tune but ditch the words. Thus, The Hymn of the Soviet Union was officially wordless until 1977 when these new Stalin-free lyrics were adopted. There's a really interesting story about how the new lyrics came to be. If anyone is curious enough to ask, I'll post the story in the comments section.
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anthem
Added: 19th August 2008
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