Lynne Cox Made A Cold Swim From The US To The USSR During The Cold War
Today in 1987, American swimmer Lynne Cox took to the freezing waters of the Bering Strait in a call for peace between the world’s superpowers.
The “Blood In The Water Match” Brought Some Cold War Violence To The 1956 Summer Games
The 1956 Summer Games are sometimes called the “Friendly Games,” although there was also a water polo match between technically allied Hungary and the USSR that was anything but friendly.
A Soviet Cosmonaut Once Pretended To Land On The Moon To Troll NASA
Today in 1968, the Soviet Union was launching the Zond 5 mission, orbiting the moon. But on cosmanaut, knowing the US would be listening, decided to pretend he’d landed on the moon's surface.
Samantha Smith, A Kid From Maine Who Tried To Make The Cold War A Little More Peaceful
Today in 1983, the beginning of an unlikely peace mission: a visit to the Soviet Union by a 10 year old from Maine named Samantha Smith.
In Soviet Russia, Vacation Took You
The Soviet Union's government sent many would-be tourists on group excursions with comrades from the local trade union - not friends or even family.
Rock Fans In The Soviet Union Turned Old X-Ray Plates Into Bootleg LPs
In the 1940s and 50s, some people in the Soviet Union broke the law and produced makeshift records on old X-ray plates just to hear Western music that the government censored.
I See Now Why Men Without Hats Existed
The West wanted Men Without Hats to counter these guys. Too bad nobody can counter these guys.