After all, her father was the pushy guy who saw the potential of Tetris, sneaked his way into Nintendo to get a meeting with its CEO, and tracked down the rights in the Soviet Union to an obscure agency and a programmer named Alexey Pajitnov.

Source: https://venturebeat.com/games/tetris-movie-inside-the-great-game-business-deal-of-all-time-maya-rogers-interview/

After all, the army still has a mentality like a hangover from Soviet times.”

Source: https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1750048/ukraine-soldiers-putin-russia-war

After a war in the late 1980s and early 90s, when the region’s majority Armenian population sought to secede from the newly independent country of Azerbaijan, Nagorno-Karabakh was hotly contested by the two former Soviet republics.

Source: https://thenewtoday.gd/defeated-by-force-he-announced-the-dissolution-of-nagorno-karabakh/

After Soviet Union nuclear weapons were dismantled and removed from Ukraine, Russia, Britain, and America agreed to maintain the territorial integrity of Ukraine.

Source: https://bizwatchnigeria.ng/its-one-year-of-ukrainian-russian-war/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=its-one-year-of-ukrainian-russian-war

After the 1991 fall of the Soviet Union, he said, the West had considered itself the boss of Russia but Putin had put an end to that.

Source: https://cebudailynews.inquirer.net/494750/any-attempt-to-arrest-putin-would-be-declaration-of-war-on-russia-ally-says

After the Cuban Missile Crisis of October 1962 concluded when the Soviet Union withdrew nuclear weapons from the island, President John F. Kennedy’s political standing rose considerably.

Source: https://www.deseret.com/opinion/2023/3/16/23640225/russia-us-nuclear-arms-control-history

After the Soviet collapse, Ukraine existed as a poor backwater in Russia’s orbit, causing no trouble for anyone — except itself, due to world-beating corruption — until the USA started a push to include it in NATO.

Source: https://www.lewrockwell.com/2023/11/james-howard-kunstler/the-four-wars/

Against the backdrop of the Space Race, the U.S. government has recruited former Nazis to help them in beating the Soviet Union to space (based on the real-life Operation Paperclip).

Source: https://www.cbr.com/disney-indiana-jones-5-300-million-dollars/

A major breakthrough only came after the Cold War ended around 1990 and the disintegration of the Soviet Union.

Source: https://indianexpress.com/article/upsc-current-affairs/upsc-key-26th-october-2023-comprehensive-test-ban-treaty-pablo-picasso-and-theaterisation-of-armed-forces-9000971/

A month later, and almost three years since Samantha Smith wrote to the Kremlin, President Ronald Reagan and Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev met in Geneva, Switzerland, agreeing to intensify discussions between the superpowers.

Source: https://nypost.com/2023/06/18/the-girl-who-tried-to-bring-peace-between-the-us-and-the-soviet-union/

And for seven years until the T-80BV appeared, it was the Soviet army’s best tank.

Source: https://biztoc.com/x/f47599da4c942805?ref=ff

And, he is nostalgic about the Soviet Union.

Source: https://www.channelnewsasia.com/singapore/russia-ukraine-singapore-shanmugam-small-countries-regional-cooperation-rivalry-3333796?cid=cna_flip_070214

And in case you dont know most jews in Israel are from the Soviet Union.

Source: https://www.lusakatimes.com/2023/10/27/zambia-ready-to-host-public-health-africa-conference-masebo/

Any Russian nuclear test would be the first since 1990, the last conducted by the Soviet Union.

Source: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/oct/06/nuclear-watchdog-russia-putin-testing-treaty

A plaque to the Soviet writer Mikhail Bulgakov – who opposed Ukrainian independence – has disappeared from the medical academy in Kyiv where he studied.

Source: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/apr/30/the-russo-ukrainian-war-by-serhii-plokhy-review

A recent article in the American Intelligence Journal by John A. Gentry argues that this represents a “belated success” of the Soviet active measures campaigns designed to destabilize the U.S. from within.

Source: https://spectator.org/teach-your-children-well-about-communism/

Armenia joins the International Criminal Court, the latest move among former Soviet states to affirm civic principles different from the Kremlin’s.

Source: https://www.csmonitor.com/Commentary/the-monitors-view/2023/1004/Big-leaps-to-escape-Russia-s-orbit?icid=rss

Artem Torgashev also skated for the Soviet Union at the international level.

Source: https://www.dailybreeze.com/2023/01/29/ilia-malinin-wins-first-u-s-title-despite-early-fall/

As American spymaster Jack Devine points out, Putin’s career took shape in Dresden, East Germany, ensconced in the Warsaw Pact world and he has called the Soviet empire’s collapse “the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the ”.

Source: https://www.rawstory.com/xi-and-putin-meeting-signals-the-return-of-the-china-russia-axis-and-the-start-of-a-second-cold-war/

A second round of negotiations resulted in a follow-on agreement in 1979, but the U.S. Senate did not ratify the treaty in reaction to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan that year.

Source: https://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/lake-county-news-sun/opinion/ct-lns-cyr-arms-control-st-0318-20230315-w6s7mvolibemrarixdn3hodciq-story.html