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Cold War

From the end of WW2 to the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Cold War was a period of geopolitical tension between the Soviet Union and the West during which the world teetered on the very brink of nuclear conflict.

A young Marine private, Da Nang, Vietnam 1965
What if America had won the Vietnam War?

Cold War

Remembering Stanislav Petrov, the Soviet officer who saved the earth. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin)
The Man Who Saved The World

Apocalypse How

The real story of the Chernobyl divers

Russia

Berlin Wall
The Bethkes vs Berlin Wall: How three brothers escaped East Berlin

Cold War

Heinz Meixner with his fiancee and her mother Frau Thurau in the car, alongside Checkpoint Charlie.
Escaping East Berlin in a Convertible Sports Car

Ice Road Truckers

The Berlin Wall Potsdamer Platz November 1975, Edward Valachovic
Division, defiance and defection, the history of the Berlin Wall

Battles

Escape from Tehran

Damian Lewis Spy Wars

History of the Berlin Wall

Battles

HISTORY's Forgotten People: Lavrentiy Beria

Russia

Viktor Bout – Merchant of Death

Damian Lewis Spy Wars

Able Archer 83: the NATO war game that almost led to nuclear war

Damian Lewis Spy Wars

Reproduction of the poison-tipped umbrella that killed Georgi Markov
The weirdest cold war assassination of all

Damian Lewis Spy Wars

The fall of Nicolae Ceausescu, Romania's last Communist leader

Hitler

Castro vs Batista: the rebellion which changed the world

Battles

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