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A common US-centric narrative holds that the Cuban missile crisis ended when Washington stood firm against the Soviets. But that story ignores a whole continent.
As hundreds of military brass descend on a base in Virginia to be addressed by Pete Hegseth, his newly bestowed title is ‘Secretary of War.’ That means something.
Comparing Finland’s situation in 1944 and Ukraine’s current war with Russia is problematic and possibly misleading.
The Intervision song contest is a relic of the cold war reactivated this year by Vladimir Putin.
Soviet-era monuments have been disappearing from the Baltic states since the start of the war in Ukraine.
One of the largest earthquakes on record struck far eastern Russia this week. The last time the region was hit by a such a huge quake, the Soviets hushed it up.
Formerly part of the Soviet Union, Georgia was seen as moving towards democracy, but that is quickly being eroded.
Increasing defence spending risks strategic blunders and wasteful investment.
Joseph Stalin is making a comeback in Russia.
The bizarre, homemade technology became a way to skirt censors in the Soviet Union – and even played an indirect role in its dissolution.
Russian political figures are worried that young people nowadays are disconnected from their heritage.
The Soviet Union launched Kosmos 482 towards Venus in 1972. But all didn’t go to plan.
Zoos aren’t woke, but they aren’t politically neutral, either.
China is developing closer ties with countries in central Asia.
A new textbook soon to be taught in Russian schools leans on the works of a 16th-century monk. It fits a pattern of ‘political neomedievalism’ by the Kremlin.
Russia’s war on Ukraine continues, despite US attempts to broker a ceasefire. Russia has repurposed history to build its power since the 1500s – that continues, too.
Before the Nazis, German universities were among the best in the world. Step by step, the universities gave up their independence until they were instruments of the state.
European members of Nato are scrambling to find a solution to the problem of the US wanting to be less involved.
America’s current retreat from world power recalls that of the Soviet Union after 1988. Is the U.S. poised to collapse like the Soviet Union did?
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