Read more Soviet Union stories on Newserhttp://www.newser.com/taggrid/2004/soviet-union.html2009 - Newseren-usNewser Feed GeneratorTue, 24 Nov 2009 10:27:21 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/73612/the-best-of-cold-war-cinema.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMaybe the reason Betsy Sharkey is feeling nostalgic about Cold War flicks is that the era offered a clear, if flawed, idea that we were the good guys. Regardless, it made for some good movies. The Los Angeles Times critic's faves, by "capricious category": Aliens: With "subtexts rich in what...http://www.newser.com/story/73612/the-best-of-cold-war-cinema.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 09 Nov 2009 14:30:00 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/73634/post-1989-germany-an-unexpected-success.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagAs “the exhaustive and perfectly blameless celebrations” of the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall unfold, Anne Applebaum has a bone to pick. The festivities are “focusing on what didn’t happen rather than what did,” she writes, treating “the past two decades as a foregone conclusion.” But...http://www.newser.com/story/73634/post-1989-germany-an-unexpected-success.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 09 Nov 2009 12:42:06 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/73473/tear-down-this-wall-not-so-confrontational.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagPrepare to see a lot of clips in the coming days of Ronald Reagan declaring, “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!” The 20th anniversary of the Berlin wall’s fall is days away, and in our collective memory, Reagan brought it down with sheer bravado. But that’s misremembering, writes James Mann...http://www.newser.com/story/73473/tear-down-this-wall-not-so-confrontational.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 06 Nov 2009 12:54:38 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/71013/screw-those-soviet-hockey-players-kid.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWhat’s more inspiring than watching Kurt Russell speak the words of legendary hockey coach Herb Brooks to the 1980 men’s Olympic team before they played—and beat—the Russians in the film Miracle ? Try the same words coming from a 5-year-old. Well, maybe it’s just cuter, but for whatever...http://www.newser.com/story/71013/screw-those-soviet-hockey-players-kid.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 06 Oct 2009 10:46:00 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/69104/thatcher-urged-gorbachev-to-block-german-reunification.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMargaret Thatcher called on Mikhail Gorbachev to halt German reunification months before the Berlin Wall came down, newly unearthed Kremlin documents reveal. Thatcher—telling the Soviet leader he should disregard NATO pronouncements on the issue—said the breakdown of the Warsaw Pact wasn't in the interests of the West, the...http://www.newser.com/story/69104/thatcher-urged-gorbachev-to-block-german-reunification.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 11 Sep 2009 2:06:38 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/64752/giant-leap-was-a-knee-in-nasas-groin.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe US took a “giant leap” landing on the moon in 1969, but NASA's greatest moment of triumph was also "a real knee in the groin" for the space agency, writes Tom Wolfe in the New York Times. At the time, we thought we’d build “a bridge to the stars,...http://www.newser.com/story/64752/giant-leap-was-a-knee-in-nasas-groin.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSun, 19 Jul 2009 11:00:00 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/62532/gorbachev-ballads-album-fetches-160k-at-auction.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagA CD of Mikhail Gorbachev singing traditional Russian ballads has sold for $164,940 at a charity auction in London, the Guardian reports. The sole copy is now in the hands of an “anonymous British philanthropist.” The benefit was held to raise money for a foundation, named after the former...http://www.newser.com/story/62532/gorbachev-ballads-album-fetches-160k-at-auction.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 22 Jun 2009 14:34:02 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/58882/west-wasted-20-years-after-berlin-wall-fell-gorbachev.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagEurope has squandered two decades of potential cooperation since the Berlin Wall fell, Mikhail Gorbachev says. At a Moscow event sponsored by his foundation, the former Soviet leader criticized Western leaders who viewed the 1989 event as their victory over Eastern Europe, rather than an opportunity for common good, Reuters...http://www.newser.com/story/58882/west-wasted-20-years-after-berlin-wall-fell-gorbachev.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 13 May 2009 15:24:02 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/56206/thank-right-wing-nuts-for-socialisms-fading-stigma.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagIn a much-touted recent Rasmussen poll, only 53% of Americans said they preferred capitalism to socialism. Among those under 30, that figure fell to 37%. “If you comb the annals of Americans’ ideological preferences, you won’t find figures like these,” writes Harold Meyerson of the Washington Post . What’s behind the...http://www.newser.com/story/56206/thank-right-wing-nuts-for-socialisms-fading-stigma.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 15 Apr 2009 8:50:16 CDT