KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KCTV) - Oct. 4, 1957, the Soviet Union launched Sputnik 1 into space, simultaneously launching the USSR and the United States into a space race.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KCTV) - September 23, 1949. US President Harry S. Truman announces evidence of the USSR’s first nuclear device detonation. ‘A second chance’: Kansas City officers rescue mother dog, ...

Once the world’s fourth-largest lake, the Aral Sea was destroyed in just a few decades. This documentary reveals how Soviet policies drained its waters, leaving behind an environmental catastrophe ...

On March 11, 1990, Lithuania became the first Soviet Republic to declare its independence from the Soviet Union. The U.S.S.R. did not accept Lithuania’s independence and imposed an economic blockade ...

Simo Häyhä, the Finnish sniper who killed hundreds of Soviets during the Winter War, aiming his rifle while wearing his winter camouflage. (Wikimedia Commons) The Soviet soldiers never saw him. Their ...

Putin will lay flowers at the Soviet pilots’ section of Fort Richardson National Cemetery after his Alaska summit with Trump. The graves are tied to the WWII Lend-Lease Program, when U.S. and Soviet ...

When the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, one cosmonaut was still orbiting Earth with no country to return to. This is the classified story of how a man became stateless 200 miles above the planet, and ...