RT published this video item, entitled “‘Kaspian Monster’ – The Soviet super-ship that spooked the CIA” – below is their description.
The KM was the largest aircraft in the world when it was developed by the Soviet Union in the 1960s. It was called the Caspian Sea Monster, and was used by the Soviet and Russian navies from 1987 to the late 1990s, before sinking into the Caspian Sea during a testing failure. When the US unexpectedly discovered it again, suddenly the spies became very interested.
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In This Story: Soviet Union
The Soviet Union, officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), was a federal socialist state in Northern Eurasia that existed from 1922 to 1991. Nominally a union of multiple national Soviet republics, it was a one-party state (until 1990) governed by the Communist Party, with Moscow as its capital in its largest republic, the Russian SFSR.
The Soviet Union had its roots in the October Revolution of 1917 when the Bolsheviks, headed by Vladimir Lenin, overthrew the Provisional Government that had earlier replaced the monarchy of the Russian Empire.
On 25 December 1991, Gorbachev resigned and the remaining twelve constituent republics emerged from the dissolution of the Soviet Union as independent post-Soviet states. The Russian Federation (formerly the Russian SFSR) assumed the Soviet Union’s rights and obligations and is recognized as its continued legal personality.