Cool Cold War Trivia Of the Day

[coldwarbaby]

From the current read, "Khruschev's Cold War: The Inside Story of an American Adversary" by Aleksandr Fursenko (the ex-Soviet half of the team) and Timothy Naftali (the western half of the team):

All Sputnik did was fly, and beep.

Sputnik's beep


There were rumors that the beeps represented encoded messages to KGB spies, or something like that, but

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[lenno_cornish]

while i still keep in mind my idea about USSR (i want to write really serious thoughts) I'ld like to know your opinion on my last post. :)