The spies who came into the cold: the collapse of the Soviet empire may have ended the Cold War, but the result has been a cold peace.(PUBLIC SECURITY)(Cover story)O'Neill, Terry
(called Operation Asphalt) were quite negative. The people felt they made a promise to care for the graves. Today we like to see the relocation of the graves in connection with the Cold War. One did not want suspected Soviet spies looking around, under the guise of visiting war graves. ...
The article presents an interview with Boris Shragin, a teacher at the Surikov Art Institute in Moscow and was an active participant in the human-rights movement in the Soviet Union during the 1960s. On asking about the popularity of Mikhail Gorbachev, general secretary of the Communist Party...
By 1982, the stagnation of the Soviet economy was evidenced by the fact that the Soviet Union had been importing grain from the U.S. throughout the 1970s. However, the conditions that led to economic stagnation, primarily the huge rate of defense spending that consumed the budget, were so ...
In 1962, the Cold War was in full swing and the USSR felt threatened by the U.S., which had far more nuclear weapons. The Americans had 6,000 warheads capable of reaching the USSR, which itself only had 300. The Kremlin felt especially vulnerable because U.S. nuclear missiles were in...
After the war, the Soviet Union continued to occupy and dominate Eastern Europe as a “buffer zone” to protect Russia from another invasion from the west. Russia had been invaded three times in the 150 years before the Cold War, during the Napoleonic Wars, World War I, and World War II...
Angie and several dozen colleagues helped identify those who passed American and Allied secrets to the Soviet Union during and after World War II. Their work unmasked such infamous spies as the British intelligence officer Kim Philby, the British diplomat Donald Maclean, the German-born scientist Kl...
Memoirs tell of KGB agents anxiously counting the lights burning in the Pentagon at night and checking NATO blood reserves to gauge the Western allies' war-readiness. Lost Spies The United States lost dozens of aircraft and 252 crew members on spy missions over Russia's frontiers; 138 airmen ...
Between 6.5%–11.5% of Afghanistan's population is estimated to have perished in the conflict. The war caused grave destruction in Afghanistan, and it has also been cited by scholars as a contributing factor to the dissolution of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War, in hindsight ...
The gut-wrenching system of forced labor camps was first established following the Russian Civil War. By the 1950s, the Gulags would stretch across the entirety of the Soviet Union's territory. It was arguably one of the darkest periods of 20th-century history. While the Gulag system slowly ...