Why the Soviet influence? Why the US involvement at all? . I still remember my thrill at the revelation that the split in Korea actually dates back to the end of World War II. ... The US-Soviet alliance during World War II is often taken for granted but we should remain ever amazed that..…

Sensing which way the political winds were blowing, Biden, however, told the Senate Committee in 1976 that he had “no illusions about Soviet intentions and capabilities in the world” and expressed agreement with neoconservative Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan (D-NY) that “isolationism was a..…

The rise of China, India, the Asian tiger countries and the liberated nations of “New Europe” after the 1989 fall of the Soviet Union has sharply increased economic competition. ..…

Just as the Soviet Union was collapsing, when there were no enemies (phantom or otherwise), Newt drowned out any further discussion of economic conversion. ..…

in Soviet Union's, Russians themselves had no qualms about depicting their women always ready to work and defend the country ... ... Long before Cold War had ended, Americans and Brits had already been doing us huge favors with their depictions of Soviet field operatives and nuclear..…

In September 1939, Soviet Army entered Poland and then forced Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania into mutual assistance treaties. In June 1940, Red Army occupied all of the territory of Estonia, Lithuania, and Latvia, and installed new, pro- Soviet governments there. ..…

Over the next four years, he fought with the new Soviet leader, Nikita Khrushchev. ... The Soviet plenum passed a resolution that charged Molotov with opposing measures “to reduce international tension and strengthen world peace.” ..…

The embattled Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman admitted that the previously obscure and fundamentalist Wahhabi sect of Islam was deliberately exported at the West’s encouragement during the Cold War to undermine Soviet influence in Muslim countries. ... Meanwhile, the breakup of the..…

The Black Book of Soviet Jewry was censored and would not be published until the fall of Soviet Union.. ... The erasure of Jews in Holocaust was not limited to the in Soviet Union.. ..…

Kissinger's approach to Baghdad was part of strategy to draw Arab countries, away from Soviet orbit. ..…