The campaign, led in coordination with the Shin Bet, targeted armed terror cells—some directly funded by Iran.

"From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the continent." Winston Churchill's talismanic speech about the onset of the cold war has been made ...

‘The CIA Book Club’, by Charlie English, recounts the secret history of the CIA’s literary warfare programme during the Cold War ...

A Polish Film Poster Exhibition currently on show at the Coal Drops Yard in London, unveils how Polish artists reinterpreted US and UK cinema ...

For nearly a quarter century, East and West Germany were completely cut off from another by the infamous Iron Curtain. That all changed in November 1989.

“If you look at a map of Europe now, it more closely resembles 1914 than it does 2024,” he argues. “The political make-up, the pressures, the various different nationalisms all rearing their ...

The European Union must get bigger or risk facing a "new Iron Curtain" along its eastern flank, European Council President Charles Michel said Monday as the bloc marks 20 years since its largest ...

Entertainment and consumer culture Some of these museums lead, surprisingly, with humor—the kind of dark humor that is likely familiar to anyone who spent time behind the Iron Curtain.

William Boyd’s Cold War spy thriller “Spy City” is available to stream on Amazon/Britbox The Picnic: An Escape to Freedom and the Collapse of the Iron Curtain Matthew Longo Bodley Head, 320pp, £22 ...

Beyond the Iron Curtain Article by Megan M.F. Everhart Photos courtesy of Iris and Jörg Busch December 21, 2023 Two professors from East Germany reflect on finding a new home at UD The first time the ...