In 2011, a man calling himself Bohdan Stashynsky, reportedly 80 years old, sought out a journalist in Kiev, Ukraine. He said he wanted to “set the record straight” about a story which,

Although both peoples were once part of the Soviet Union, trouble between Ukrainians and Russians is nothing new. In the late 1940s and 1950s, during the Cold War, the American CIA secretly

Hiding in plain sight. You might say that this saying has two meanings. The first means to deliberately concealing something and yet it remains visible. For example, imagine somebody in disguise: you

During the Cold War, Checkpoint Charlie was a crossing point located midway across Berlin, just inside the city’s Western half, and administered by the United States Army. If you were going Eastward,

My first impressions of West Berlin were of a city which looked very much like any other major city in Western Europe: modern, cosmopolitan, chic, with no hint (at least none downtown)

In November 1989, the Berlin Wall fell — or, more accurately, it stopped functioning. Nobody knew this would happen, not even the people who authorized the change. Only a few months afterwards,

In 1956, in Communist-ruled Hungary, Soviet tanks crushed an anti-Communist rebellion. Despite that Marxist-Leninist achievement, Hungary’s new Soviet-installed leader, János Kádár, felt he would need more than Soviet tanks to secure his

The Berlin Wall fell on November 9, 1989. Today that event of more than thirty years ago is not only history, for more and more people it feels like ancient history. But