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.

According to Dr. Koura, "This research underscores the complexity of Cold War alliances and how smaller states like Czechoslovakia utilized intelligence operations to assert influence. Cyprus ...

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 ...

The Cold War was a global event, and yet all too often Cold War studies focus on the United ... Europe and Central/South America and include countries such as Iran, Pakistan, Israel, Egypt, Yugoslavia ...

Ethiopia, Spain, Czechoslovakia and eventually Poland ... many living through those crisis years saw their own “cold war” against the regimes and methods of states like Nazi Germany.