Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Back in the Soviet Union, architecture was never about charm or comfort. It was about power, scale, and making sure everyone felt ...

There are times when sport isn’t a metaphor — it’s simply war, a skirmish of ideals. Think of the Soviet Union’s rival-crushing Cold War hockey team, which between 1978 and 1992 won three Olympic ...

We're huge fans of old-school claptrap cars from now-defunct communist countries. If for no other reason than the cars built in these places are a lens through which to view what life was like there ...