Soviet Union

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via Hackaday: Testing a Soviet 1000 Volt Insulation Tester from 1985

Although the term ‘Iron Curtain’ from the Cold War brings to mind something like the Berlin Wall and its forbidding...

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• Newsreel
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• Space

Two Amateur Radio Operators Tapped Into a Soviet Frequency. Did They Hear a Woman Burning Alive in Space?

The Space Race, that high-tech Cold War competition to see which global superpower could conquer the cosmos first, was such...

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via Hackaday: This Soviet-Style Clock Uses Homemade Nixie Tubes and Glowing Logic

The Neon glow of a Nixie tube makes for an attractive clock, but that’s not enough neon for some people....

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• Shortwave

A Cold War-Era Russian Radio Transmitter Just Broadcast a New Encrypted Message, No One’s Been Able to Decipher

A mysterious shortwave radio signal that has puzzled intelligence agencies and amateur radio enthusiasts for decades has once again broadcast...

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• International

via Hackaday: Soviet Wired Radio, How It Worked

At the height of the Cold War, those of us on the western side of the wall had plenty of...

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• Youth

Via Southgate: Meet the 13-year-old restoring old Soviet tech in Georgia

Mariam Ben Nakhi is not your usual teenager. Unlike most 13-year-old girls, she has a passion for fixing phones and...