The CIA Paid A Magician To Write A Deception Manual During The Cold War
The United States government feared an attack from the USSR during the Cold War. This led it to a host of experimental programs aimed at…
Pepsi Once Had the 6th Largest Navy In the World
Pepsi is one of the most iconic American brands in the world, and you’re bound to start an argument over whether it or Coca-Cola is…
Impressive Facts About The ‘Losers’ Of The Space Race
The Space Race was a battle between the U.S. and Soviet Union that was fought with brains, science, and technology in the cold expanse of…
What Happened When The Soviets Left Afghanistan?
On December 24th, 1979, the Soviet Red Army charged into Afghanistan, marking the beginning of the Soviet–Afghan War. This war would draw many parallels with…
Project Stargate: The CIA’s Human Experiments with Mind Control
Project Stargate sounds like something out of this world — and it kind of is. No, it doesn’t refer to wormholes or the exploration of…
New Exhibition Explores the Rags to Riches Story of WW2 Refugee Joseph Kagan
A new exhibition explores the colorful life of the textile designer Joseph Kagan, who escaped a WW2 ghetto and fled to England with his family.…
Reindeer Battalion of WWII Braver than Soviets, Tougher than Tanks
The Petsamo-Kirkenes Offensive in 1944, which led to the expulsion of German forces from the northerly regions of Norway, would have been severely hampered had…
Was Reagan Influenced By Reading Tom Clancy’s “Red Storm Rising” Before A Cold War Summit With Gorbachev?
During the Cold War, President Ronald Reagan read an unusual book to gain insight on the Soviets. It is true that before any international meetings,…
When Finns & Snow Killed the Soviets – 8 Things You Need To Know About The Winter War
As the Second World War was breaking out in Western Europe, the Soviet Union embarked on another war – one which it though would easily…
The Glory Days of East Berlin’s Stasi football club: Berliner FC Dynamo
Back in the days of the USSR and the German Democratic Republic, East German football teams were often named after the factories they represented. FC…
Last Soviet Red Army Soldier From St Petersburg to Storm the Nazi Reichstag has Died
The last member of the Soviet Red Army division that lived in St. Petersburg and stormed the German Reichstag in Berlin at the end of…
This Is What BBC Radio Would Broadcast In Case Of A Nuclear War
So began the BBC public service announcement that would have been broadcast, had Britain been attacked with nuclear weapons, back in the days of the…