According to many in US intelligence, Poland’s Colonel Ryszard Kukliński was one of the best-placed spies in the Eastern Bloc. Between 1972 and 1981, he provided the CIA with thousands of pages of ...

Throughout the 1960s, Eastern European diplomats critically discussed Cuba's export of revolution in Latin America and Havana ...

But prior to 1989 that generally wasn’t the case – and here we look back at some of the Eastern Bloc’s less celebrated contributions to automotive history. The Balkan region’s most recent ...

These records, now open to the public in many former Eastern Bloc countries, reflect a textually mediated reality that has defined and shaped the lives of former victims and informers, creating a ...

[Marek Więcek] grew up in just such a place, so the only way to play Famicom (a.k.a NES) games was to use a clone system like this one circulating in the Eastern Bloc at the time called the ...

CEE countries are EU member states which were part of the former Eastern bloc. The following countries are included: Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Lithuania, Latvia, Poland, Romania, ...

After World War Two a Cold War developed between the capitalist Western countries and the Communist countries of the Eastern Bloc. Soviet leader Joseph Stalin wanted a buffer zone of friendly ...

A spate of Moscow's drones landing on alliance territory has spurred the Bucharest 9 bloc to call for a "collective ...

With Georgia passing yet another controversial law, this time against LGBTQ rights, a growing number of post-socialist EU states, such as Slovakia, Bulgaria and Hungary, appear eager to adopt ...