USSR

Ukranian ‘Great famine’ of 1933

Key countries around the world are officially reclassifying one of the 20th century’s greatest tragedies – the Ukranian Great Famine...

22/03/2013

It’s not insignificant that high school students in both parts of Germany know spot-on jokes about Walter Ulbricht: the now-deceased...

29/05/2012

The cost of World War II is uncalculable in human or financial terms. estimates indicate that about 55 million people...

20/05/2012

On 8th of May 1945, Germany officially ceased military operations, ending the European conflict of World War II and prompting...

08/05/2012

On the night of April 16th and 17th, 1961, 1,400 armed men on board a flotilla of small boats and...

20/04/2012

While much of the world faced depression, in the early 1930s the Soviet Union was booming. Stalin’s industrialisation programme was...

15/02/2012

The end of the First World war saw a great reduction in the size, scope and remit of the intelligence...

28/11/2011

12 April 1961 The people of the United States share with the people of the Soviet Union their satisfaction for...

30/05/2011

The poster Don’t Brag About Your Job was displayed in government and military offices dealing with sensitive material in the...

28/05/2011

1718 London lawyer James Puckle patents the machine gun 1829 The US Congress designates the slave trade as piracy 1918 ...

15/05/2011