From spycraft to love and secrets in the last years of East Berlin, this is Oskar Jensen's pick of the fiction inspired by ...

An unusual agreement made during the Cold War led to Pepsi receiving many submarines as a penance for selling its popular, ...

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A City Divided by Concrete The Berlin Wall, standing from 1961 until 1989, was not just a barrier of concrete – it was a symbol of the Cold War, a physical manifestation of the ideological ...

CNN Editorial Research Here’s a look at the life of Mikhail Gorbachev, former president of the USSR. Personal Birth date: March 2, 1931 Death date: August 30, 2022 Birth place: Privolnoye, Russia, ...

From humble beginnings in a greenhouse on top of a block of flats, Chinese company Huawei grew to become one of the world’s ...

Berlin was once the meeting point of east and west during the Cold War, as the Berlin Wall marked the location at which the ...

The Kremlin propaganda point that seems most attractive to extremists on the left and the right views Russia as a victim of ...

An audacious Allied plan in 1944 had the potential to swiftly end the war in Europe. German forces got advance warning from ...

Prayers and candles brought the Berlin wall down. They proved stronger than the powers of a decaying Communist dictatorship in East Germany. The churches in Germany are commemorating the 20th ...

After the Berlin Wall fell in 1989, rave culture flourished as a reaction against the system, and the rise of sex clubs in Berlin in the ’90s popularised fetishwear and bikerwear. Berlin style is ...

The longest preserved piece of the Berlin Wall, standing between Ostbahnhof and Oberbaumbrücke, is known worldwide as the East Side Gallery. After the Wall fell, 118 artists from 21 countries ...