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The three Baltic states came up with the idea years ago for a high-speed railway spanning 870km (540 miles) across Estonia, ...

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However, Trotsky’s theory of “permanent revolution” set him at odds with Stalin, who favored the consolidation of socialism ...

The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 marked the beginning of the end of the Cold War, paving the way for German reunification ...

But a simple question and slip up by East German Communist Party official Günter Schabowski during an otherwise boring press ...

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The rededication of a decades-old artwork now in the Hal Peterson Middle School library brought the artist’s family, retired ...

In 1949, the cold war became a nuclear arms race when the Soviets detonated an atomic bomb. United States military and ...