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How the C.I.A. Turned the Tables on Soviet Industrial Espionage Thanks to information provided by President Mitterrand of France, the U.S. knew the U.S.S.R. was stealing tech. Now, the C.I.A. had ...
There were reports of major strikes in the Soviet industrial city of Novocherkassk that were suppressed violently by the army in June 1962. The sudden removal of Khrushchev from power in October ...
Once the Chinese had mastered those relatively simpler technologies, in 2015 Xi Jinping (習近平) launched the “Made in China ...
Where the Donbas meets the Dnipro River, the USSR built out a dense range of massive factories, using the local coal and ...