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The Dylatov Pass Incident: Has One of the Biggest Soviet Mysteries Been Solved?
Most of us would go out of our way not to set foot anywhere near a place the local natives…
The 1924 Soviet Chess Match Where The Chess Pieces Were Real Soldiers and Horses
Let’s time travel back to Leningrad (aka St. Petersburg) in 1924. That’s when an unconventional chess match was played by Peter Romanovsky…