The USSR had organized special sanatoriums for people left disabled after the war. Conditions there were not as appalling as the rumors claimed. Here’s why... “Hundreds of thousands of disabled people ...

A.Kovtun, B. Korzin/TASS After colonial empires in Africa collapsed, Moscow did all it could to make “African comrades” embrace socialism – but the romance didn’t last long. “During yet another crisis ...

Thirty years ago, one of the most historic DIY projects of all time took place. Berliners took apart the wall that had cut their city in half. Thus began the beginning of the end of the Cold War. It ...

Operation Unthinkable was Winston Churchill’s secret plan at the end of World War II to launch a surprise offensive against ...

The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. As humans began to ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

It has been 25 years since communist hardliners attempted a coup against the Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev. Within three days the coup had collapsed and a few months later, so did the Soviet Union.

IT’S not only the South Osse tians who are back in the USSR this morning. Other Georgians, countries in Russia’s “near abroad” from the Caucasus to the Baltic, “national minorities” such as the ...

In Akademgorodok, residents experienced cultural freedom unlike anywhere else in the USSR. To this day, the town is one of the most important research centres in Russia. The Siberian taiga, where ...

In ‘The Winter Warriors,’ French writer Olivier Norek narrates the 1939-40 confrontation between the two countries ...