Before the fall of the Iron Curtain and subsequent collapse of the Soviet Union during the 1989-1992 period, the nations of the Soviet Empire produced a fascinating range of cars, trucks, and ...

Behind the Iron Curtain, millions were imprisoned in Soviet gulags—forced labor camps that fueled Stalin’s rise and kept the USSR running. Torture, starvation, and death defined daily life. This is ...

Before the fall of the Iron Curtain and subsequent collapse of the Soviet Union during the 1989-1992 period, the nations of the Soviet Empire produced a fascinating range of cars, trucks, and ...

IF we are much too near the recent tumultuous and tragic events in Poland and Hungary to write their history or to venture any predictions for the future in Eastern Europe, we can at least make a ...

Putin blames Gorbachev personally for throwing away the Soviet Empire. But in many respects, Gorbachev had few options when he took office in 1985. In the late 1970’s the Soviet Union was at the ...

Sovietborgs, a top-down 16-bit run’n gun shooter set in an alternate timeline where the Soviet Empire rules supreme, created ...

Mikhail Gorbachev changed the course of modern history by triggering the demise of the USSR and allowing Eastern Europe to free itself from Soviet rule, earning him accolades in the West but the ...

In order to facilitate Soviet control over her economic empire in Germany and ensure complete independence from the German economy, a number of auxiliary organizations have been set up. There is the ...

World Gorbachev: the man who let the Soviet empire go. By. AFP. Published. August 30, 2022 ...

On Dec. 25, the formal end of the Soviet empire was sealed when he resigned as president of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. Mr. Yeltsin provided him with a dacha, ...