The final weeks of April 1945 saw Soviet troops advance on Berlin, bringing World War II in Europe to an end. Amid the Soviet onslaught and the confused Nazi retreat, Russian troops found ways to torment their foes. Visit BusinessInsider.com for more stories. The violence of the final weeks of […]
Robert Lighthizer is the US Trade Representative spearheading President Donald Trump’s trade war with China. According to a new Bloomberg profile, Lighthizer has been a hard-charging trade negotiator since the 1980s. In one instance, Lighthizer smoked an entire box of Cuban cigars in a windowless room to throw off Soviet […]
Photographer David de Rueda has captured various abandoned Soviet spaces. His favourite place he’s captured is a hangar in the steppe of Kazakhstan that holds two space shuttles from the USSR’s once-active Buran program. The space shuttles have not been touched in nearly 30 years. Photographer David de Rueda has […]
Christine Keeler, who died on Monday, was at the centre of the 1960s Profumo Affair. She had a relationship with British Minister for War John Profumo. At the same time, she was seeing a Soviet diplomat, sparking security concerns. Profumo lied about the affair in Parliament and later had to […]
Vladimir Putin was recruited as a KGB agent after graduating from university. The current president of Russia served as an agent in East Germany for five years. Putin’s experience as a KGB operative may have helped to mould his worldview. Vladimir Putin‘s KGB career may have ended decades ago, but […]
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Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania were Soviet republics until the dissolution of the USSR back in 1991.
