All the Latest Game Footage and Images from Ostalgie: Fall of the Curtain The Cold War is coming to an end, and "cradles of the revolution" join the fight for their existence in the system of new ...

The fall of the Iron Curtain which lifted communist rule across a swathe of Europe was as swift as it was unexpected. Click on the links below to watch and read about the main events in a dramatic and ...

These two cities are twinned and share a common past. This year, they are also the first joint capital of culture of Europe ...

The key myth, Erica suggests, is the story of the origin of Rome: Romulus and Remus were abandoned in a forest and suckled by a she-wolf. “At the centre of civil culture is this kind of shadow ...

After WWII, Truman watched most of Eastern Europe fall to the Communist "Iron Curtain." "I do not think we should play compromise any longer," Truman wrote.

War had returned and the detente that had existed since the fall of the Iron Curtain was over. In Berlin, it kickstarted the period known in German as the “Zeitenwende” – or “turning point.” ...

Valuch, whose 2022 book Everyday Life Under Communism and After analyzes the transformation of people’s lifestyles and ...

In this short film for secondary schools historian Dominic Sandbrook explains how the phrase the ‘Iron Curtain’ came into being when, as a guest of President Truman in 1946, Winston Churchill ...