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When #BorisYeltsin, the all-too-eager puppet of Washington, D.C. was maneuvered into power as the #SovietUnion collapsed, a decade of #Western plunder of #Russia followed. This video gives a brief history.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrNQeYYvabg
How Capitalism Destroyed Russia
If you're like me, you know way too many people who think Russia is communist, or that don't realize the USSR has been gone for three decades now. But even f...YouTube
"This article aims to summarize the background of well-known and not so well-known Soviet rocket engines, the history of their development, their main characteristics, and the rockets they flew on."
https://everydayastronaut.com/soviet-rocket-engines/
#History #SovietUnion #Rockets #Engineering #Technology
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Soviet Rocket Engines
Soviet rocket engines - this article is about their history, their development, their use and their rockets.Mariia Kiseleva (Everyday Astronaut)
RDS-3 Soviet atomic bomb test (1951)
The third atomic bomb developed by the Soviet Union, RDS-3 Marya/Joe-3 was tested on October 18, 1951 at the Semipalatinsk test site. This was the first Soviet air-dropped bomb test.
The bomb was dropped from a Tu-4 aircraft from a height of 10 km, it detonated 380 meters above the ground.
The bomb had a composite design with a plutonium core inside a uranium-235 shell, providing an explosive power of 41.2 kilotons of TNT.
Source: Rosatom#AtomicBomb #RDS-3 #SovietUnion