‘An immigration agent spirited my passport away’: A night aboard Europe’s last Soviet sleeper train

Trundling from Moldova to Romania, the ‘Friendship’ locomotive provides a journey straight out of the old USSR ...
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I rode the last Soviet train in Europe

Join me on a journey aboard Moldova's Prietenia train, the last Soviet train in Europe, traveling from Bucharest to Chisinau. Experience the unique route and historical context of this iconic railway ...
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The Zangezur Corridor: The Geopolitical Flashpoint You’ve Never Heard Of

MEGHRI, ARMENIA—The last train left the old, abandoned Soviet station in this dusty, mountainous outpost just a few dozen yards from the Iranian border in 1989. It was bound for Baku, Azerbaijan, just ...
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Project Hula: The US Secretly Armed the Soviet Union to Invade Japan in WWII

In the spring of 1945, the U.S. Navy quietly handed over 149 warships to the Soviet Union at a remote Alaskan outpost, ...