Salvage of the century: The lost WWII gold of HMS Edinburgh ~humanities.history Video 41:51, published Feb 29 2024 10 votes
How Finland survived a 1,000,000+ Soviet invasion (1939-1940) ~humanities.history Video 46:49 13 votes
The insane machine that conquered Antarctica for the USSR - the Kharkovchanka ~humanities.history Video 19:20, published Oct 25 2023 9 votes
President John F. Kennedy's "Peace Speech" ~humanities.history Video 27:07, published Jun 6 2013 5 votes
The psychedelic drug that conquered Europe ~humanities.history Video 11:29, published Mar 8 2023 11 votes
Scenes from a fallen empire: Abandoned Russian bases dot Mongolia’s border ~humanities.history Article 1314 words 16 votes
Cold War British RMP video shown to travellers before driving from West Germany to West Berlin through the Soviet East German corridor ~humanities.history Video 16:09, published Oct 29 2019 8 votes
Inside the secret world of Russia's Cold War mapmakers ~humanities.history Article 4568 words, published Jul 18 2015 7 votes
US pilot shot down four Soviet MiGs in thirty minutes – and kept it a secret for fifty years ~humanities.history Article 1508 words 8 votes
With Stalinist architecture, a prominent bust of Lenin and posters extolling the motherland, Pyramiden is the abandoned Soviet mining town in Norway's Arctic ~humanities.history Article 1419 words 10 votes
Chernobyl's death toll (or, how I learned to live with Chernobyl's legacy) ~humanities.history Video 1:47:20 2 votes
The strangest aircraft ever built: The Soviet Union's VVA-14 ~humanities.history Video 11:21 13 votes
Why measuring the impact of Lend-Lease is so difficult ~humanities.history Video 12:18, published Aug 14 2018 4 votes
How did the USSR react to JFK's assassination? ~humanities.history Video 2:57, published Jun 3 2020 5 votes
Animated history: Life in East Germany ~humanities.history Video 14:14, published Oct 23 2020 3 votes
The creation, history, post-WW2 socialist economy and break-up of Yugoslavia explained ~humanities.history Video 29:24, published Aug 23 2020 6 votes
Why does Russia have the best maps of Britain? | Map Men ~humanities.history Video 8:49, published Jan 11 2021 12 votes
The break-up of the Soviet Union, explained ~humanities.history Video 41:47, published May 1 2020 4 votes
The Sino-Soviet split: How did Soviet Russia and China become enemies? ~humanities.history Video 13:12, published Aug 15 2020 3 votes
Being Finnish: A Guide For Soviet Spies – An archived booklet reveals how communist spooks were instructed to blend in with Finnish locals ~humanities.history Link 11 votes
The history of a Cold War mastermind: Gus Weiss, a shrewd intelligence insider, pulled off an audacious tech hack against the Soviets in the last century. Or did he? ~humanities.history Article 8654 words 4 votes
There may never ever be another man as powerful as Stanislav Petrov ~humanities.history Video 41:38, published Jul 7 2019 7 votes
The deadliest disaster in maritime history happened seventy-five years ago this week: Thousands of German citizens and soldiers fleeing the Soviet army died when the “Wilhelm Gustloff” sank ~humanities.history Article 1924 words 4 votes
Soviets in Afhghanistan: The invasion that changed everything ~humanities.history Video 16:02, published Sep 24 2019 5 votes
Finland marks 80th anniversary of brutal conflict with the Soviet Union ~humanities.history Link 3 votes
Mikhail Gorbachev's Pizza Hut ad is his most bizarre legacy, and tells the story of his attempt to find—and to fund—a place in a country that wanted nothing more to do with him ~humanities.history Article 3434 words 10 votes
The shoals of Ukraine - Where American illusions and great-power politics collide ~humanities.history Article 4324 words 5 votes
‘The day the wall came down’: How the Washington Post covered the Berlin Wall’s fall thirty years ago ~humanities.history Article 1812 words 11 votes
Camp Century – Secret Cold War base shifts through Greenland ice ~humanities.history Article 559 words 6 votes
Norway reportedly detects radioactive leakage from Soviet submarine ‘Komsomolets’ in Arctic ~humanities.history Article 422 words 7 votes
In 1989, the Pepsi Company cut a deal with the USSR that left it with a fleet of Russian military ships, making PepsiCo temporarily the sixth-largest Navy in the world ~humanities.history Article 1139 words 10 votes
Kyshtym: The nuclear disaster that was kept secret for thirty years ~humanities.history Article 1208 words 11 votes
During the Cold War, the CIA secretly plucked a Soviet submarine from the ocean floor using a giant claw ~humanities.history Article 1822 words 8 votes
Thirty-five years ago today, one man saved us from world-ending nuclear war ~humanities.history Article 888 words 16 votes