In the middle of the Cold War, the United States unleashed a jet that defied physics – the SR-71 Blackbird, a reconnaissance ...

Was Stalin truly caught off guard by Hitler’s invasion? This episode explores the case for “yes, he expected it.” From vast ...

Unfortunately, the only people who had some guarantees in the USSR were Communists Party members and their collaborators. For ...

Friends of Hari Kumar feared he might be “brainwashed into becoming a communist” when he left his Indian village as a ...

Collier County has its own frigid history, especially with the role it played during the Cold War with its proximity to Cuba.

On 16 Oct 1962, Kennedy’s NSA walked into the White House with ‘proof’ of Soviet missile deployment in Cuba. What followed ...

True crime entails much more than what’s shown on the TV screen. Understandably, a lot about it gets left behind the scenes, ...

The facts show that, in this six-decade-plus crime against humanity, Indonesia has been the tool of other interests, that the ...

Since then, its threat has shaped and justified global conflict. Both Iraq and Iran have been accused of seeking the bomb, ...

Orwell was an ardent critic of the Soviet system, but he is more closely linked to Russia than you might think. “I clearly remember how the door to the editorial office was locked, a pencil was ...

There is no precise data in Russia on the consumption of homemade spirits (known in Russian as samogon, literally “self-distillate”): it is not sold in stores, and very rarely in bars. “We were once ...