Gorbachev died after a “serious and long illness,” according to ABC News
Soviet Union
The socialist..."Paradise"
"Friends started calling me with compliments, but at first I couldn’t even recall what they were talking about"
Orwellian Communist-like methods in a Western country?
US nuclear war plans called for the destruction of the Soviet Union & China as “viable societies”
The statue to Marshal Ivan Konev is reviled by some in Prague as a symbol of the decades of Communist rule that followed the war
The bomb had a parachute to slow its drop, giving time to the planes to fly about 30 miles from ground zero
The ship, built for the USSR but never completed, was towed to China where it eventually became the carrier Liaoning
In 1989, the Berlin Wall came down after nearly 30 years of separating East Berlin from the West
"There are dangerous trends - they are all in plain sight. I would single out two. They are the disregard for international law and the militarization of world politics"