1989, it initiated a chain of events that would eventually precipitate the fall of the Berlin Wall. In September 1989, more than 13,000 East German tourists escaped through Hungary to Austria. The Hungarians prevented many more East Germans from crossing the border and returned them to Budapest...
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The operation reportedly took place near Novy Put, a hamlet located 4km from the border. The troops are part of an Airborne Forces unit from Tula, the statement said, presumably referring to the 106th Guards Airborne Division. The Ukrainian incursion has come with a great cost to Kiev in ...
Three areas are examined: the value of East European forces in terms of the ruble cost of equivalent Soviettroops; economies of scale in Soviet arms production made possible by exports of Soviet arms to the region; and transfers of East European technology through CMEA programs. Non-Soviet ...
She was arrested at the border on suspicion of spying. Umerova has already spent a year behind bars in Russia. The case will be heard in secret and she is threatened with 20 years’ imprisonment. Since 2022, repression against Crimean Tatars has been stepped up. The Russian authorities ...
In this chapter I will consider whether the discourses that prevailed in the 1950s–1960s were still present in the 1980s when Soviet society went through significant economic change and political liberalisation. To find out what kind of change the Sovie
Wimborne-Idrissi pushes one stupid idea after another. The more I see her in action, the more I realise we are not dealing with the brightest bulb in the box. This is her answer to the first question about whether questioning Israel’s right to exist is antisemitic: ...
triggering the Winter War. Despite outnumbering the Finnish troops by over 50:1, the war proved embarrassingly difficult for the Red Army. Although the end of the Winter War gave the Soviet Union control over several strategically important border areas, particularly those to the immediate north of...
Soviet invasion of Afghanistan; Afghan WarA convoy of Soviet armoured vehicles crossing a bridge at the Soviet-Afghan border, February 15, 1989, during the withdrawal of the Red Army from Afghanistan. The war in Afghanistan became aquagmirefor what by the late 1980s was adisintegrating Soviet Un...
First, it air-dropped elite troops into principal Afghan cities. Soon after, it deployed motorized divisions across the border. Within days, the KGB, which had infiltrated the Afghan presidential palace, poisoned the president and his ministers, helping launch a Moscow-backed coup to install a ...