An epic train ride across Asia, through the back country of the old Soviet Union. (Originally published 7/16/2000). Editor’s note: We’re pulling out an occasional classic adventure from… ...

A column of Russian armored vehicles with red communist Soviet-era victory flags was struck by drones on a Ukrainian ...

Returned to Hungary in the baggage train of the onsweeping Red army in 1944, along with Gero, Rakosi and other Moscow-trained Communists, to take over liberated Hungary.

By the mid-thirties, however, the exuberance of Moscow’s expat community had begun to wane. In 1934, Sergei Kirov, a leading Bolshevik functionary, was shot dead in Leningrad.

Just a whiff of Krasnaya Moskva (Красная Москва, or “Red Moscow” in English) is enough to transport Russian citizens to the nostalgia of their childhoods.

This month, Moscow is aflutter in red, white and blue flags for the annual celebration of the Russian capital’s birthday, No. 876. Its leaders marked the occasion with a monthlong exhibition ...

Soviet Military Commanders Kori, Voroshilov, Uborevich, Kamenev, & Gamarnik during a parade, Moscow 1936 During the demise of the Soviet Union, the army played some role in the changes more than ...

The train also traverses under the Rockies through the 6.2 mile Moffat Tunnel in Colorado at the line's highest point of 9,270 feet. Sydney To Perth, 2,704 Miles (4,352 Km) ...

At bottom, this attack on Sanders is classic red-baiting. Point to something positive somebody said about a Communist country taken out of context and hysterically accuse them of guilt by association.

Fun Fact: Russia changed his outfit over the past 100 years. (Courtesy of Alexei Yurchak) 2. Ho Chi Minh. By the time the Vietnam War began for the United States, Ho Chi Minh was in his 70s.

On 16th June I stepped on to Russian soil: on the 19th I was in Moscow. The departure from Germany went hastily. In April, upon invitation from Moscow, the KAPD (Communist Workers Party - Germany) had ...