Looking back at the best cartoons of the 1950s needs to take into account the era. With the ravages of World War Two somewhat receding and film production and attendance stabilising, animated feature ...

By April 1983, Samantha Smith, now 10, was worried as Cold War tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union raised the threat of nuclear confrontation.

A Soviet-era spacecraft that failed to launch to Venus more than 50 years ago plunged to Earth on Saturday. The European Union Space Surveillance and Tracking confirmed the spacecraft – known as ...

The 58-year-old security guard kept a poster affixed to the inside of his work locker’s door so that every time he opened it, he was greeted with a cartoon of a muscled Vladimir Putin, who was ...

Christopher Boyce and Andrew Daulton Lee journeyed from the Palos Verdes Peninsula suburbs to become Soviet spies, a story emblematic of 1970s California.

A declassified Cold War-era file from the CIA has gone viral over its coverage of a supposed clash between Soviet soldiers and a UFO, whose passengers reportedly turned the troops to stone before b… ...

Atomic Heart is being criticised (via Resetera) for the presence of a racist caricature in one of the old Soviet cartoons that air in the game's Resident Evil-style save rooms. Those rooms, which ...

While most Georgians support closer integration with Western Europe, many people in industrial areas that collapsed along with Communism in the 1990s express nostalgia for the old Soviet prosperity.

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Hall and Fuchs weren’t aware they were both sending secrets to the Soviet Union, which was a valuable setup for their spymasters. Unknowingly, Hall and Fuchs corroborated each other’s tips.

Keith Gessen reviews “How the West Lost the Peace,” by Philipp Ther; “Collapse: The Fall of the Soviet Union,” by Vladislav Zubok; “Not One Inch: America, Russia, and the Making of Post ...

Senaator Rand Paul (R-KY) condemned Saturday's military parade in Washington, comparing it to similar marches in the Soviet Union and North Korea.