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Because of my long-time desire to own a Fifty-Mission Crush hat of some variety, I've been looking over sites such as Soviet Power and Soviet Military Stuff to see what's available.


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Sagittarius Horoscope for week of October 8, 2009

In 1968, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn finished his book The Gulag Archipelago, a scorching indictment of the oppression that he and his countrymen suffered under the totalitarian regime of the Soviet Union. Banned for years, it was never formally published in his home country until 1989. Even after that ( Read more... )

( Shot SEVENTY Years Ago, By Eisenstein. Music By Prokofiev. STILL Awesome. )

Got the 1982-vintage Clint Eastwood movie on DVD from the Big Lots bargain bin this evening. Just saw the end of the third act. The effects...have not aged well. The photographic grain is overmuch, the perspectives on the miniatures are unconvincing and they could have been smarter with the interfacing of the elements. But then again, it WAS ( Read more... )

Q: Is Neda our generation's Archduke Ferdinand?

The Next World War will be digitized.

( MiG Fighter-Bombers On Film )