Tag: Soviet Union

Nikita Khrushchev begins his rise to power

14 March 1953.

Did you know Africa once had nuclear weapons?

While the continent is legally committed to being a nuclear-free zone, its secur...

Roy Medvedev, Soviet dissident historian who exposed St...

He was the first historian to calculate the number of Stalin’s victims: ‘Not one...

Karl Marx publishes Communist Manifesto

21 February 1848.

Woman denied entry by Baltic nation over Soviet cash

Lithuanian customs has said the outdated currency is a “tool of propaganda”

This European country is preparing to give up its futur...

With formal withdrawal from the CIS underway, Moldova faces mounting economic an...

Auschwitz is liberated

27 January 1945

We should still listen to Russian music – and there’s n...

One of the nation’s finest composers had no part in the present, or even the pas...

Rear-Admiral John Roberts, naval aviator who served in ...

He helped to fight off an invasion of British Honduras in an operation he descri...

Welcome to the real Soviet Union – primitive, brutal an...

Mark B Smith’s magnificent new history, Exit Stalin, lays bare the reality of da...

Russians celebrate 83rd anniversary of end of Leningrad...

19 January 1943. The Nazi blockade of the city lasted 872 days and claimed the l...

Mikhail Gorbachev resigns as president of the USSR

Mikhail Gorbachev announces that he is resigning as president of the Soviet Unio...

Soviet Union invades Afghanistan

24 December 1979