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24 Sep 2026 3 minute read 1 comment rah $0.10
Yesterday I posted a bit about how Trump actually managed to make the right call when it comes to Russian aggression during the ongoing war in Ukraine. He said that in fact Russia has been attacking Ukraine's allies since 2022 and I spent most the po...
23 Sep 2026 1 minute read 0 comments Ancient Warrior $0.02
How much money could you save by making your own deodorant? A stick of commercial deodorant can cost around $8. The DIY version in my latest piece comes out to about $0.76. I also look at why we started caring so much about body odor, what we're actu...
17 Sep 2026 2 minute read 0 comments SovietStories $0.02
When Bitcoin launched in 2009, it looked like a completely new idea. Most of its building blocks, however, had existed for years: private digital cash, online payments, proof-of-work, digital scarcity and attempts to create money without a central ba...
15 Sep 2026 5 minute read 1 comment SovietStories $0.02
In the late 1980s, millions of Soviet people sat in front of their televisions and waited for one man to speak. He was sitting in a television studio, while his audience could be hundreds or even thousands of kilometers away. There was no doctor's of...
12 Sep 2026 13 minute read 0 comments CondividiSulWeb $0.08
Twenty-five years after September 11, 2001, the United States is once again confronting one of the darkest days in its modern history.On September 11, 2026, Americans are marking the 25th anniversary of the attacks that killed 2,977 people, destroyed...
8 Sep 2026 4 minute read 0 comments SovietStories $0.00
For a Soviet teenager, joining the Komsomol was more than simply receiving a membership card. You needed recommendations, your application had to be discussed at a meeting, and other Komsomol members were effectively putting their name behind you. Af...
7 Sep 2026 4 minute read 0 comments SovietStories $0.03
Soviet vodka is probably one of the first things foreigners associate with everyday life in the USSR. The familiar bottle, the 40% on the label and the long history of vodka production became part of the image of the Soviet Union. But there was much...
4 Sep 2026 3 minute read 0 comments SovietStories $0.03
Getting drunk in a Soviet city could end with waking up somewhere run by the authorities rather than at home. Your money, documents and watch had been taken for safekeeping, a doctor had examined you, and you were told that you would have to pay for...
3 Sep 2026 3 minute read 0 comments SovietStories $0.04
Today, a gold tooth is more likely to attract attention than admiration. Most people who need a crown want it to look as much like a natural tooth as possible. In the Soviet Union, however, a gold crown could be something completely ordinary. It coul...
2 Sep 2026 4 minute read 0 comments SovietStories $0.01
Today, it is difficult to imagine Chukotka as a place where tens of thousands of people once lived and worked in cities that had schools, hospitals, cinemas, apartment buildings and even a nuclear power plant. The region is now one of the least popul...
