He began "reeducating" people to relieve them of the Christmas "opiate." And thus the Soviet Union became secular. The Orthodox cross was replaced with the "hammer and sickle" and the state became ...

However, Christmas turned out to be more powerful than the Kremlin. In the 1920s, the Soviet Union had a dilemma: the Communist Party officially adhered to a doctrine of state atheism. Indeed ...

But just over six years later, the Soviet Union was no more, ending the defining conflict of the postwar era. Christmas Day 1991, the hammer and sickle, the red banner of the disintegrating Soviet ...

On a snowy Christmas morning in 1932 ... a team of African American agronomists on a two-year project in the Soviet Union’s burgeoning agricultural industry in Uzbekistan.

The Soviet Union, or USSR, was a state that was formed ... Gorbachev then resigned as the USSR leader and commander-in-chief on Christmas Day, 1991.

he spent his last months in office watching republic after republic declare independence until he resigned on Christmas Day. The Soviet Union wrote itself into oblivion a day later. A quarter ...