With the threat of Russia on their doorstep, five nations are bolstering their defences by turning to a tactic the world ...

Shaun Shackleton speaks to local metal gurus Nemesis ahead of their headline show at this weekend’s 20th anniversary - and ...

Sofia House, as it is named, is the home of Balkan Holidays Ltd. This is the last surviving remnant of the capital’s “Iron Curtain Row”.

For the decades following World War II, the Iron Curtain that separated West and East Germany was defined by “electrified fences, razor wire, land mines, trip lines, and machine guns,” writes ...

When the Soviet Union replaced Nazi Germany as the enemy, a close friend of Fleming, Frank Wisner, was appointed head of the CIA propaganda assets inventory to smuggle in truth rather than lies (or ...

It has been nearly 80 years since Winston Churchill delivered his ‘Iron Curtain Speech’ but the message in it still resonates to this day. Less than a year after the guns had fallen silent ...

The economics of Europe's defence spending With the fall of the Berlin Wall and the Iron Curtain, Europe entered a prolonged period of disarmament. This era saw the end of compulsory military service, ...

What are the best HoI4 mods? Paradox Interactive's gigantic strategy games have always been a modder's playground, and none more than eight-year-old WW2 behemoth Hearts of Iron 4. There are over ...

In an interview with the British newspaper The Sunday Times, Polish President Andrzej Duda described the country’s “Eastern Shield” initiative as a new version of the Iron Curtain. This line of ...

When Iron Maiden became the first Western rock band to take a full production show behind the Iron Curtain on the 1984 World Slavery tour, they stepped into a world of hysteria, celebration and ...

By “guns,” I mean all the weaponry America’s merchants of death sell to the Pentagon and across the world. Indeed, weaponry is perhaps this country’s most influential global export ...