The USSR continued to support President Mohammad Najibullah ( former head of the Afghan secret service, KHAD ) until 1992.

The USSR continued to maintain diplomatic relations with Chiang's KMT regime until 1949 when it became clear Mao would win.

) He continued to read the Times, which was not generally available in the USSR, listened to the BBC World Service, and was an avid follower of cricket.

Once established as ruler of the USSR, General Secretary Stalin re-titled the official Socialism in One Country doctrine as “ Marxism-Leninism ”, to establish ideologic continuity with Leninism, whilst opponents continued calling it “ Stalinism ”.

Following the dissolution of the USSR, the expansion of US influence has continued.

Although he continued the Ostpolitik of his social-democratic predecessor, Kohl also supported Reagan's more aggressive policies in order to weaken the USSR.

Recently declassified interviews with high level former Soviet nuclear and military-industrial planners reveal that Fidel Castro continued to favour nuclear options, even during the later Cold War – according to former Soviet General Danilevich, "(... in the early 1980s ...) Cuban leader Fidel Castro pressed the USSR to take a tougher line against the United States, including possible nuclear strikes.

Despite this, relations with the USSR didn't really fall off until the Cultural Revolution and China continued to send representatives to the anniversary celebration of the 1917 revolution up to 1966.

Once again migration of non-Russians into Grozny continued whilst the ethnic Russian population, in turn, moved to other parts of the USSR, notably the Baltic states, after the interethnic conflict broke briefly out in 1958.

A period of win-win cooperation continued between the USSR and UK against Nazi Germany till the end of the war in 1945.

Regardless of Stalin's death in 1952, the USSR and its satellite countries continued to encourage workers to exceed production targets and to publicise those who did so. In September 1959 near Neustrelitz, East Germany, a forester on his Simson ( company )# 250cc road models | AWO 425T motorcycle congratulates a team of women who achieved 184 % of work target by planting 25, 000 saplings in the time that they were set a quota of 16, 000.

SIS operations against the USSR continued to gain pace through the remainder of the Cold War, arguably peaking with the recruitment in the 1970s of Oleg Gordievsky whom SIS ran for the better part of a decade, then successfully exfiltrated from the USSR across the Finnish border in 1985.

These high-profile games continued against top national sides such as Racing Club of Argentina and Spartak Moscow of the USSR, before meeting Honvéd of Hungary in a landmark game for English football, televised live on the BBC.

For example, they continued to hold the position that the USSR was a " state capitalist " society.

Japan's relations with the Soviet Union continued to be problematic after the war, but a Joint Declaration between Japan and the USSR, ending the war and reestablishing diplomatic relations was signed October 19, 1956.

The expiration of the Soviet Union, beginning with the fall of the Berlin Wall and Glasnost in 1989 and culminating in the USSR ’ s breakup into its republics in 1991, constituted a major upheaval that continued to influence global politics into the 21st century.

Use of the Soviet anthem, with Mikhalkov's lyrics, continued until 1991, when it was retired by President Boris Yeltsin after the USSR disintegrated.

Shachtman and his allies broke with Cannon and the majority of the SWP leadership, which along with Trotsky continued to uphold unconditional critical defense of the USSR.

The USSR withdrew its troops in May 1946, but tensions continued for several months.

Yet, with political and military tensions at crisis in the Korean Peninsula, and a fear of US military intervention there, geopolitical circumstances disallowed the USSR and China any ideological split, hence their alliance continued.

Moreover, as the Vietnam War continued, and Chinese anti-American rhetoric continued, Mao perceived the USSR as the greater threat, and thus pragmatically sought rapprochement with the US, in confronting the USSR.

But when a Viking space probe sends back the picture of an alien creature swinging a stick, a joint US / USSR mission is sent in a hurry to explore the planet, and things develop fast from there.

There he meets Sergey Golovko, a rising star in the KGB hierarchy, and eventually becomes entangled in a complex web related to both the race to develop " Star Wars " space-based defensive technology and engineer another defection, this time compromising the KGB director to save the CIA's highest informant in the USSR, Agent CARDINAL, better known as Colonel Misha Filitov.

In 1960, the USSR started developing a project under the codename " Шквал " ( Squall ) run by NII-24 ( Kiev ) to develop a high-speed torpedo, an underwater rocket, four to five times faster than traditional torpedoes capable of combating enemy submarines.

The term " Nth Country " referred to the goal in assessing the difficulty in developing basic weapons design ( again, not the same thing as the development of weapons themselves ) for any potential country with a relatively small amount of technical infrastructure — if the United States was the 1st country to develop nuclear weapons, and the USSR the 2nd, and so on, who would be the Nth country?

In the 1970s and 1980s Moldova received substantial investment from the budget of the USSR to develop industrial, scientific facilities, as well as housing.

In 1971, the Council of Ministers of the USSR adopted a decision " About the measures for further development of Kishinev city " that secured more than one billion rubles of investment from the USSR budget Subsequent decisions directed enormous wealth and brought highly qualified specialists from all over the USSR to develop the Soviet republic.

Kosygin supported Bourassa's project and expressed concerns regarding his country's own nuclear power, explaining his country had to develop the technology because the USSR lacked suitable rivers to expand its own hydroelectric network of dams and power stations.

Symbolically ( as commemoration of Operation Barbarossa, the German invasion of the USSR ) on the 22nd of June, 1944 the City Soviet organized a competition for Architects from Kiev as well as other places from the republic and the union to develop a new project for a complete reconstruction of the central city.

The national republics of the USSR were entitled to develop their own Stalinist styles, with more or less freedom.

They develop scientific activities in scientific centers of former USSR and abroad.

* Honored Master of Sports of the USSR ( 1961, title obtained as a reward for a space flight )

* TKS – unmanned USSR / Russia cargo spacecraft ans space station module

* Almaz – USSR space station

The first space mission, Sputnik 1, was an artificial satellite put into Earth orbit by the USSR on 4 October 1957.

On 3 November 1957, the USSR orbited Sputnik 2, the first to carry a living animal into space – a dog.

The CF-105 Arrow was rolled out on October 4, 1957, coincidentally the very same day the USSR launched Sputnik 1 into orbit, heralding the dawn of the space age and potentially the end of the Arrow's main target, the longe-range bomber.

The station was launched as part of the Soviet Union's manned spaceflight programme effort to maintain a long-term research outpost in space, and, following the collapse of the USSR, was operated by the new Russian Federal Space Agency ( RKA ).

The Space Race was a mid-to-late 20th century competition between the Soviet Union ( USSR ) and the United States ( US ) for supremacy in space exploration.

However, the USSR dissolved in 1991 and the remains of its space program were distributed to various Eastern European countries.

The simultaneous missions became one of the first instances of Soviet – American space cooperation: the USSR released Luna 15's flight plan to ensure it would not collide with Apollo 11, though its exact mission was unknown.

The program was responsible for sending into space the first citizen of a country other than the USA or USSR ; Vladimír Remek of Czechoslovakia.

The USSR also experimented with military space stations with a capability for anti-satellite duty in its Almaz program.

Vladimír Remek of Czechoslovakia, the first space traveller not from the US or USSR, visited Salyut 6 in 1978, and the station hosted cosmonauts from Hungary, Poland, Romania, Cuba, Mongolia, Vietnam, and East Germany.

The USSR supplies weapons to Mao Zedong's Communist Party, The Greater German Reich attacks Race-held Poland ( and fails, resulting in the death of Führer Ernst Kaltenbrunner, his top officials, the nuclear destruction of much of Greater Germany, and the removal of Nazi space installations ).

Gold Medal of K. Tsiolkovsky by the AN USSR for outstanding achievements in the field of space, 1984

The sixth day saw images of Siberia, the Northern USSR, and European USSR which were, according to TASS, areas that had never before been " targets of space photography.

* Vladimír Remek – the first Czech in space and the first cosmonaut who wasn't a citizen of USSR or USA

Posadism as an ideology, supports the potential for Third World revolution, is enthusiastic about nuclear war and space exploration by the former USSR and the People's Republic of China, has an esoteric concern for " harmonisation " and " man's relationship to the earth, to nature and to the cosmos ", based upon an original methodology of analysis of working class culture developed by J. Posadas.

The book centers around terrorists taking control of the Space Shuttle Discovery during the first NASA – USSR space shuttle flight.

* Pilot-Cosmonaut of the USSR ( 26 May 1991 )-for the implementation of space flight on the orbital scientific research complex Mir

The Venera 11 () was a USSR unmanned space mission part of the Venera program to explore the planet Venus.