Tag: Soviets

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The deepest hole on Earth.

December 28, 2025

The deepest hole on Earth. Dug by the Soviets in competition with the US, the Kola Superdeep Borehole is “roughly one-third of the way through the outer crust to the mantle.” Sounds deep, I guess, but is that really the […]

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The Soviets invented paid time off.

May 16, 2023

But they also dictated how workers would spend it, and with whom. “Broadly speaking there were two types of Soviet vacations: one where people stayed in a single place, and one where they moved around. The former took place at […]