Hungary had been under the control of the USSR since 1945. With the death of Joseph Stalin, the dictator of…
In the year 1968, Czechoslovakia attempted to free itself from the influence and control of the Soviet Union (USSR) after…
The end of World War II finishes a prolonged and very draining military exercise but another long period of hostilities…
The Gulag was a forced-labor camp system that operated in the former Soviet Union. The system began in the era…
The end of World War II in 1945 brought along with it a new set of geopolitical rivalries and tensions.…
The Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in Dec 1979 was one of the significant events that punctuated the closing years of…
The Cuban Missile Crisis was a confrontation between the two major superpowers - the United States and the Soviet Union.…