Cold War

Image copyrightGetty Images/Liberal PartyImage caption James Paterson, left, and Andrew Hastie, right, have both been outspoken in their criticism of the Chinese state. Two Australian politicians refused entry to China have said they will not retract their…

Key point: It would have reshaped Asia forever. Americans tend to remember the Cuban Missile Crisis as the most dangerous moment in Cold War brinksmanship. Despite some tense moments, Washington and Moscow resolved that crisis with only the death of U.S. Air…

The assassination of six Jesuit priests in El Salvador 30 years ago this month was the last great crime of the Cold War. It happened on November 16, 1989, a week after German protesters began demolishing the Berlin Wall. As communism was dissolving, an elit…

I took trains all the way from Istanbul to London, and eastern and western Europe felt like different worlds

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Image copyrightLUBOMIR KOTEK/Getty ImagesImage caption Days of non-violent protests culminated in the fall of communism in Czechoslovakia The Berlin Wall had only just fallen when 15,000 students gathered in Prague on 17 November 1989. It was a moment th…

Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda listens to Director of the State Security Department Darius Jauniskis in Vilnius, Lithuania November 15, 2019. REUTERS/Andrius Sytas. Russia freed two Lithuanians and a Norwegian on Friday in return for two Russian spies …

Zoomers on TikTok, plant hobbyist meme accounts, and Fox News guests have little in common. But they all declare the same rallying cry: Jeffrey Epstein didn't kill himself.  Whether a macro image or a short video, the meme more or less follows the same forma…

On November 9, 1989, German officials decided to allow residents of Communist East Germany to cross over and visit the Western, democratic half of the divided country. Though the complex process of physically and ideologically reunifying the country took abou…

In episode two of HBOs 10-Emmy award-winning series Chernobyl, lead character Ulana Khomyuk (played by Emily Watson) delivers a scathing line to a male Soviet Communist Party leader: I am a nuclear physicist. Before you were deputy secretary, you worked in a …