It has been over sixty years since India reclaimed Goa from Portuguese rule, yet the story of what truly happened behind the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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Article in the newspaper of Uruguayan anarcho-syndicalists from 1937 criticising a pro-Moscow line in the newspaper of the Spanish anarcho-syndicalist CNT union. It is with growing sadness and sense ...

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.

The USSR invaded eastern Poland in September 1939, helping, through its alliance with Hitler’s Germany, to eradicate the Polish state from the map of Europe. Arkadiusz Mularczyk was asked by ...

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 ...

Yu. Levyant/Sputnik Did Soviet barmen work for the KGB? Read on to find out the answers to all those burning questions about boozing over the Iron Curtain. 1. The first bars in the USSR appeared after ...