. - Going back to Soviet times and continuing today, a major complaint of Russian democrats has been the shadowy, malevolent role played by intelligence agencies, particularly the KGB and its successor organization. ... Any Russian with a medium-range memory is unlikely to miss this echo of the..…

The Point Four Program, drawn from Harry Truman's inaugural address in 1949, linked World Bank to the struggle with Soviet Union for influence in the world, with many political conditions attached, -owned enterprises. ..…

The United States meddles egregiously in the affairs of Russia and other former Soviet Republics.  ... After Communism fell and the Soviet Union split apart, there has been precious little holding them back. . ..…

Whatever we may think of the reality of Soviet and Chinese systems, their effect in West in the 20thcentury was to contribute to the adjustment and softening of Western capitalism. ..…

Beginning in 1983,  Ronald Reagan―under fierce criticism for his nuclear buildup and disturbed that U.S nuclear weapons could not prevent Soviet nuclear weapons attack―initiated safety program of different kind  missile defense.  ..…

Longtime political operative Roger Stone is speaking out for the first time since his Friday arrest in connection to the special counsel’s Russia probe, calling its chief investigation Robert Mueller a “rogue prosecutor” who is helping to turn the United States into the “new Soviet Union.”..…

Recall that throughout Cold War, the official enemy was Russia and the rest of Soviet Union, along with godless communism and the conspiracy to take over the world, , was based Moscow.. ..…

Cuba was fully abandoned after the destruction of the Soviet Union, and had to be saved by China). . ..…

Cuba was fully abandoned after the destruction of the Soviet Union, and had to be saved by China). . ..…

But these calculations were completely wrong, and Moscow, in addition to saving Syria and frustrating the plans of Washington and her confederates, greatly strengthened its relationship with Iran (not always a simple relationship, especially during the Soviet period), elevating it to the high level..…

On the other hand, the militant and atheism of Soviet revolution replaced Christianity with communism, crossing borders and nations, with its members united around Marx and Engels theories of class warfare. ..…

With Berlin at the epicenter of the Cold War, Germans could identify themselves, or sympathize, with ideological markers – Marxist, anti-Soviet, pro-US – that may have clarified where they stood regarding political matters. ..…

The fact is, all of the above presidential policy initiatives were heatedly debated in Washington during a period when the US and Soviet Union each had roughly 9,000 nuclear warheads pointed at the other. ... In fact, have they ever bothered to contemplate why NATO even exists any longer; or the..…

Gizenga's government was recognized by Soviet Union, China, Mongolia, Poland, East Germany, Yugoslavia, Albania, Bulgaria, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Cuba, Iraq, the United Arab Republic, Ghana, Guinea, Algerian government, and Morocco. ..…

Nkrumah, who had angered the United States by maintaining close ties to the Soviet Union and China. ..…

A group of children at the Auschwitz Nazi concentration camp on Jan. 27, 1945, just after the liberation by the Soviet army. . . ..…

Did the fact that Solzhenitsyn criticized the Gulag in Soviet Union confer his approval of in West. Political analyst Radha Rajan wrote, Solzhenitsyn was as critical of what America and Europe represented in the century as he was of Soviet Union and Stalinist repression... ..…