Inside ‘Pimlico’ – MI6’s most daring mission to save KGB double agent… with ‘dry cleaning’, a Mars bar & mad border dash

AS soon as he sipped his glass of Armenian brandy, Oleg Gordievsky knew he was in a fight for his life. If he could only keep ...
HistoryAtWar on MSN

Narva 1944: Where Europe’s SS volunteers froze and fought to the end

From January to March 1944, the Narva River became one of the Eastern Front’s most brutal killing grounds. Outnumbered and ...
StoriesAtWar on MSNOpinion

The final hours at Altdamm: Waffen SS endures artillery hell in a cellar of the dying

Trapped in the shrinking Altdamm bridgehead in March 1945, Eric Wallin's mortar platoon endures non-stop Soviet shelling in a ...
The Sun

Drug mule Brit Bella Culley reveals she’s had baby just weeks after being freed from ex-Soviet hell hole

She fell pregnant after a fling with a British man on the trip to the former Soviet state PREGNANT drugs mule Bella Culley has given birth to the baby boy conceived on her disastrous Far East ...
Irish Sun

Drug mule Brit Bella Culley reveals she’s had baby just weeks after being freed from ex-Soviet hell hole

PREGNANT drugs mule Bella Culley has given birth to the baby boy conceived on her disastrous Far East backpacking trip. Bella, 19, posted TikTok pictures of her cradling a tiny tot with the caption: ...
Military.com

Welcome to Hell: Russia Once Lost 2,000 Men in Grozny, Then Repeated the Same Mistakes in Ukraine

Russian Defense Minister Pavel Grachev promised he could seize Grozny with a single parachute regiment in two hours. On New ...
Kotaku

Hell Let Loose: Soviet and British 8th Army Armor Pack

All the Latest Game Footage and Images from Hell Let Loose: Soviet and British 8th Army Armor Pack Games metadata is powered by IGDB.com We may earn a commission when ...
The Scottish Sun

We travelled from Scotland to ex-Soviet area that ‘doesn’t exist’ & is on ‘do not travel’ list – it felt safer than UK

A COUPLE of Scots holidaymakers have told how they jetted off to a former Soviet region on the government’s ‘do not travel’ list – but said they felt SAFER than in the UK. Nicole Docherty and Jordan ...
Yahoo

Russians to hold Immortal Regiment march with Soviet symbols in Washington

An initiative group of Russians in Washington plans to hold a march of the Immortal Regiment with Soviet symbols, dedicated to the 80th anniversary of the end of the so-called Great Patriotic War [as ...
The Nation

The Often Misunderstood History of the Soviet Dissidents

The often misunderstood history of the Soviet dissident movement. In To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause, historian Benjamin Nathans sheds light on how the protest movement reinvented itself at key ...
The Economist

Worries of a Soviet-style collapse keep Xi Jinping up at night

IN LATE SEPTEMBER workers erected a new structure in Tiananmen Square. It is 18 metres tall, resembling a basket of fruit and flowers. Similar floral-themed displays have sprung up across Beijing in ...
CNN

Turkmenistan’s mysterious, flaming ‘Gates of Hell’

Rarely does an industrial accident develop into a major tourist attraction. But when a Soviet exploratory team drilled for natural gas in Turkmenistan more than 50 years ago, they are said to have set ...