The abandoned city built by prisoners that became a ghost town after huge explosion
After the death of Stalin in 1953 and subsequent closure of the gulags, many of the former prisoners stayed on in the town to ...
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Howard Amos: Russia Starts Here review - East meets West, via the Pskov region
Real Lives in the Ruin of Empire, the journalist Howard Amos’ first book, is a prescient and fascinating examination of the borderlands of a bellicose nation. Focusing on the Pskov region, which juts ...
Rebel comrades: How Russian imperial nostalgia found its Confederate soul
Russia's Kremlin loyalists and America's MAGA faithful have a lot in common — and they're both enslaved by the past ...
The billionaire pipeline: How a 2000s startup boom fueled Europe’s tech renaissance
Why did it take Europe so long to kick-start its entrepreneurial streak? And what changed to allow the continent’s founder ...
As Ukraine’s fate hangs in the balance, ‘Soviet’ command culture damages war effort
Last February, a Ukrainian company commander going by his callsign Veter was ordered to send his people to reinforce another ...
Unburying the Remains of the Third Reich
As the German right ascends, the nation is still grappling with its fascist past — and how to handle its remains.
Oleg Gordievsky, Britain's most valuable Cold War spy inside the KGB, dies at 86
LONDON (AP) — Oleg Gordievsky, a Soviet KGB officer agent who helped change the course of the Cold War by covertly passing ...
KGB defector Oleg Gordievsky, who helped change course of Cold War, dies aged 86
In the 1980s, his intelligence helped avoid a dangerous escalation of nuclear tensions between the USSR and the West.
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The drums of war are beating louder in eastern Germany: ‘Here, we still remember what Germany owes to Russia’
Wünsdorf, a town nicknamed ‘Little Moscow’ during the Cold War because of its gigantic Soviet base, reflects the strong ...
15 Countries That Were Once Part of the Soviet Union
The Soviet Union stretched across Asia and Europe and ruled more than 15 republics. Unfortunately, the era of centralized ...
The release of a 1961 plan to break up the CIA revives an old conspiracy theory about who killed JFK
A key adviser warned President John F. Kennedy after the disastrous Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba in 1961 that the agency ...
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Never again – but what exactly? The German memory culture and Russia’s war against Ukraine
Even 35 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall and reunification, Germany is a fragmented landscape of memories.