History Today: Battle of Stalingrad in World War II ends with Nazis surrendering
The state funeral of Queen Victoria of Great Britain was held on 1901. A little over a decade later, the plush Grand Central ...
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The US secretly sent communist-friendly Coca-Cola to a Soviet general in a bid to maintain good ties across the Iron Curtain
As World War II ended and the Iron Curtain fell over Eastern Europe, relations deteriorated between the Soviet Union and its Western allies. The Soviet repudiation of the West and of capitalism ...
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The Sound of Utopia — how Stalin waged war on musicians
Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. If there is one image that captures the culture of fear among musicians in Soviet times, it is Dmitri ...