As far-right AfD wins big in east, Germany is still voting along Cold War lines
Even though the eastern and western parts of Germany were reunified into the single sovereign nation of Germany in 1990, the ...
We don’t want a pro-Russia Germany: Why AfD is a danger to the global order
Should an AfD-led Germany withdraw from NATO, the alliance would surely collapse, as would an EU without Germany. Instead, a ...
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German election results show stark east-west divide decades after fall of Berlin Wall
Almost all of the old East Germany has turned AfD blue. The party has always been more popular in German areas that were once under Soviet rule, but this year has tightened its grip. Image ...
Boris Spassky, Soviet chess champion who lost famed Cold War-era match to Bobby Fischer, dies at 88
Boris Spassky, a Soviet-era world chess champion who lost his title to American Bobby Fischer in a legendary 1972 match that ...
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Crucibles of Power: Smolensk Under Stalinist and Nazi Rule
David-Fox provides a detailed examination of the tragic history of the western Soviet territories that swapped hands between the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany twice between 1941 and 1943.