On Dec. 17, 2024, a post on X showed a photo, purportedly from 1985, that listed Western musical acts allegedly banned in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR). The circulated list ...
Gouzenko had spent part of the Second World War at the Soviet Embassy in Canada, as a cipher clerk, encoding communications to Moscow. In 1945, Gouzenko received orders to return to the Soviet ...
A stockpile of Soviet documents recently translated for the Wilson Center and dating from the '80s reveal new details ... At a major KGB conference in Moscow in 1981, the agency's chairman ...