One of them was for a “Eastern Democratic Union” that would incorporate all of Eastern Europe from the Baltic to the Aegean Seas and from the border of Germany to the frontier of Soviet Russia. It was meant, firstly, as a proposed political entity large and strong enough to resist any..…

Nazi Germany was a national-security state. So was the Soviet Union. Cuba. ..…

Up to the Berlin Wall’s fall, the project to unite Europe—church and state—into what Otto von Habsburg described as a union reflecting the “heritage of the Holy Roman Empire” had stalled at the Iron Curtain separating Europe’s western democracies from the Communist states of the Soviet..…

She had just moved with husband, Red Army soldier, to Brest, city on Soviet- German demarcation line. Along with many other women and teens, she was sent to Germany where she spent in labor camp and then was 'fortunate to be sent to German family farm.. ..…

In Germany, Nazi leaders were prosecuted, but not in Japan. When Washington launched its Cold War against the Soviet Union, it needed Japan as a key ally in Asia. . ..…