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

Soviet troops eventually reentered Budapest and crushed the uprising. But despite their eventual defeat, the Hungarian rebels of 1956 inflicted what would come to be known as "the first tear" in ...

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.

Analysis: 100 years after his death, Lenin seems to be an afterthought in modern Russia A century after the death of Vladimir Lenin, the founder of the Soviet Union is largely an afterthought in ...

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.