Even though the eastern and western parts of Germany were reunified into the single sovereign nation of Germany in 1990, the ...

When word of crowds gathering at the Berlin Wall reached Europe correspondent Ian Henderson on a cold November day in 1989, ...

Feeling fed up and ignored by mainstream parties, many in what was East Germany have flocked to the far right - with the AfD ...

Eighty years ago this month, the United States and Great Britain effectively conceded Eastern Europe and parts of Central ...

When the Soviet Union withdrew from Afghanistan in 1989, the situation was very different from the situation Russian leader ...

However, relations between the US and Soviet Union deteriorated quickly. The Berlin Wall After World War Two, Germany was split into four zones. The Soviet Union, UK, America and France would each ...

In Dresden, East Germany he witnessed the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. With the collapse of the Soviet Union two years later, Putin and 800,000 KGB officers were left shipwrecked.

Shortly after the Berlin ... the Soviet economy to the brink of collapse. The Vatican's Secretary of State, Agostino Cardinal Casaroli, said, "Ronald Reagan obligated the Soviet Union to increase ...

The borders remained shut until the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989 ... of revolutions in the countries of the Soviet bloc. The Soviet Union eventually collapsed in 1991.