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Gordon Corera’s account of the audacious counter-intelligence operative Vasili Mitrokhin is non-fiction that reads like a spy thriller.
Russia‘s ruthless dictator Vladimir Putin is dead – and a squad of surgically enhanced body doubles is now secretly running ...
FURIOUS Kim Jong-un is feared to have begun executing navy commanders he deems responsible for the botched warship launch.
Some of the Stalin nostalgia may be attributable to the coincidence (okay, not really a coincidence) that Stalin led the ...
Nina L. Khrushcheva is a professor of international affairs at The New School and the co-author of In Putin’s Footsteps: ...
With its predecessors including the Tsarist intelligence agencies, the Bolsheivk’s shield and sword and Stalin’s NKVD, the KGB was no ordinary service to the Soviet Union’s Communist Party.
John Wayne survived Stalin's assassination order on his life by terrifying the KGB hitmen sent to take him out. By George Simpson , Film & Music Editor 17:57, Tue, Jan 21, 2025 | UPDATED: 18:28 ...
It's Vladimir Putin, now the longest-serving Russian leader since Stalin. Once a shadowy figure in the KGB, Putin rose from relative obscurity and is now in his fifth term.
In the 1960s, the KGB conducted psychological experiments that found two months or less of bombarding subjects with “nonstop” fear messages resulted in subjects being “brainwashed” to ...
We may be wrong to assume that Donald Trump’s favorite Russian dictator is Vladimir Putin. In the wake of a paranoid scuffle late last week over concerns about the “loyalty” to Trump of Arizona ...
Convention will go on, but suspicion remains. Stalin transformed the Communist Party into a quivering mob loyal only to him. He denounced critics as “enemies of the people.” He created a ...
Jade McGlynn explores the true picture behind newly built ‘Stalin Centers’ and statues – and Putin’s delicate balancing act on the former Communist dictator.