Ethiopia, Spain, Czechoslovakia and eventually Poland ... many living through those crisis years saw their own “cold war” ...

During the Cold War, the threat of nuclear Armageddon was ... such as Poland, Romania, Czechoslovakia and Bulgaria. Opponents to the Soviets were arrested and many elections were rigged.

Built in the thick of the Cold War, under a nuclear threat ... to the Embassy of Czechoslovakia – in a stunning exploration of 'the most spectacular architectural style of the 20th century'.

For more than a decade, as Cold War tensions threatened to escalate into all-out war, Mr. Gordievsky, a senior KGB officer, ...

But the final straw was the invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968 ... Oleg Gordievsky averted a third world war. That is indeed what he believed, but recent scholarship shows that a pre-emptive ...

Gordievsky passed away on March 4 in England, where he had lived since defecting in 1985. Police confirmed Saturday that his death is not being treated as suspicious ...