The Solovetsky monastery, up to the XIX century… George Zoltan Bien 76, an Arlington resident who survived imprisonment in the Soviet gulag after World War II and was forced to flee his native Hungary ...

SURVIVOR OF THE WARSAW GHETTO UPRISING HONORED ON 80TH ANNIVERSARY ... As Germany invaded from the west, the Soviet Union ...

The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising began in April of 1943 while WWII was still being fought on Soviet soil. Although the German army had suffered a catastrophic defeat at Stalingrad, much of its force on ...

The Soviet Union (USSR) saw Eastern Europe as a 'buffer-zone' of land which would protect it from possible attack from the West. The Soviets wanted to keep control of the Eastern Bloc to ensure ...

In a lively and frank debate at Corvinus University, Budapest, a large public audience debates freedom, democracy and immigration with a panel of politicians and thinkers chaired by Jonathan Dimbleby.

The Soviet Union (USSR) wanted to keep control of Eastern Europe to create a buffer zone between itself and Western Europe. The Warsaw Pact meant that the USSR controlled Hungarian foreign policy.