Some believe the site was used for high-level intelligence briefings and diplomatic talks with Soviet officials.

Nuclear armament of the U.S. and the USSR in the 1940s; establishment of NATO and the Warsaw Pact; the Space Race; the Cuban Missile Crisis; glasnost and perestroika in the USSR; the fall of the ...

During the Cold War, the threat of nuclear Armageddon was ... Romania, Czechoslovakia and Bulgaria. Opponents to the Soviets were arrested and many elections were rigged. America was concerned ...

Throughout the Cold War, European militaries were very well ... Union and seven Eastern Bloc socialist countries: Albania, ...

One by one, Communist governments loyal to Moscow seized power in Poland, Hungary, Romania, and Bulgaria. Soviet Communism soon dominated Eastern Europe. The Cold War had begun.

The hijacking crisis of September 1970 occurred against the backdrop of a decades-long Cold War between the planet's two strongest nations. Although the United States and Soviet Union had begun ...