On the morning of February 10, 1962, two men walked toward each other from opposite ends of the Glienicke Bridge in Berlin. One was Francis Gary Powers, an American U-2 pilot who had spent nearly two ...

A declassified Cold War-era file from the CIA has gone viral over its coverage of a supposed clash between Soviet soldiers and a UFO, passengers of which reportedly turned the troops to stone before ...

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To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause: The Many Lives of the Soviet Dissident Movement by Benjamin Nathans, Princeton University Press, 816 pages, August 2024 Professor Benjamin Nathans thinks ...

In the waning years of the Soviet Union, most of the citizens in that cold tyranny could see that their system was irredeemably broken. But for the most part, they marched through the same routines, ...

There is little love for Russia in the Baltic nations of Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia after decades of subjugation by the Russian Soviet Union, but cutting the electrical ties that bound them to ...

A monument has been erected in the Siberian city of Nizhnevartovsk to honor victims of the brutal purges from the 1930s to the 1950s, despite efforts by the Russian government to glorify Soviet ...

Senator Jesse Helms stood in the Anchorage airport on August 31, 1983, playing games with two little girls. They were 3 and 5 years old. Their family was waiting for Korean Air Lines Flight 007 to ...

During the late 1960s, a top-secret Soviet program to sneak nuclear weapons around U.S. early warning radars was mistaken for a rash of UFO sightings by Moscow’s citizens. The weapon, known as FOBS, ...