When news of the incident reached the Soviet Union, party leader Leonid Brezhnev wrote to Carter condemning the ‘tremendous danger’ caused by the error.
21st June 1919: The German High Seas naval fleet is scuttled at Scapa Flow
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When news of the incident reached the Soviet Union, party leader Leonid Brezhnev wrote to Carter condemning the ‘tremendous danger’ caused by the error.
Nuclear war was avoided when Russian officer Stanislav Petrov rejected early warning system reports of incoming ballistic missiles as a false alarm.
The Moscow–Washington hotline entered operation, providing a direct link between the Kremlin and the Pentagon.
The explosion had the power of 22 kilotons of TNT, and was 50% more destructive than its designers had expected.
The two rockets of the Apollo–Soyuz Test Project launched from the USA and the USSR in the first international collaborative space mission.
Instigated on 24 June the previous year, the Soviet blockade prevented all rail, road, and water transport between Berlin and the West of the Germany.
The Battle of Berlin ended after German General Helmuth Weidling surrendered to Soviet General Vasily Chuikov.
Vladimir Lenin introduced the New Economic Policy at the 10th Communist Party Congress.
The German Empire established its first air force, the Fliegertruppe, in 1910 which saw extensive action in the First World War.
In 1922 the USSR consisted of just four Soviet republics – the Russian SFSR, Ukrainian SSR, Byelorussian SSR and Transcaucasian SFSR.
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