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The French Punk Who Tore Down the Berlin Wall
This Saturday is the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. We found the guy whose face made all the front pages the day after he was photographed smashing the shit out of it with a hammer.
Sweden Hunting for Suspected Russian Submarine Near Stockholm
Russia has denied reports that one of their submarines surfaced off the coast of Stockholm, but the Swedish military is on high alert and conducting a large search operation.
A Military Reenactment Group is Fixing the Ukrainian Army’s Decrepit Soviet Equipment
A group that once staged reenactments of historic battles now plays a strangely important role in Ukraine’s very real war zone.
VICE News Capsule - Thursday, July 10
Spanish authorities crack down on Italian mafia, study shows plants can create own pesticides & more.
Huang's World: Moscow, Part 2
Eddie learns what it was like to live under Soviet rule, shares tea with Kyrgyz immigrants, and begins to understand the complex issues that connect the Russian people
Why the U.S. Is Building a High-Tech Bubonic Plague Lab in Kazakhstan
Studying bioweapons in a former Soviet nation.
Crossing the Danube
Between World War II and the fall of Communism, many fled Soviet-controlled East Germany and headed westward. The stories of these defectors have been exhaustively documented, but much less is known about the few who headed against the tide, west to...
Scud Missiles Really Suck
To rout the forces that are striving to close his chapter of Syrian history, Assad is now digging into his pile of scud misssiles and firing a few of them at rebels.
There Was No Escape from the Sketchiest, Most Cramped Soviet Spaceflight
The Soviet Voskhod spacecraft was a hollowed out Vostok with almost no safety provisions. And it worked.
Soviet Scientists Made This Two-Headed Dog
You’re looking at the horror film-esque result of an early transplant procedure by Soviet scientist Vladimir Demikhov. It’s more like a one-and-a-half dog. Demikhov grafted the head and forelegs of a smaller dog, Shavka onto a bigger dog, Brodyaga.
Adrenaline Junkies Look to the Moon for Great New Fix
Do you want adventure in your vacations? Are you willing to go the extra mile to visit a place you’ll never forget? Then "Excalibur Almaz":http://www.excaliburalmaz.com/ has the perfect trip for you: a 500,000 mile, sightseeing round-trip tour of the...