# USSR
Historical Debacles: 12 Humiliating Military Defeats from Ancient Times to the Modern Era
de·ba·cle /dāˈbäk(ə)l,dəˈbäk(ə)l/ noun a sudden and ignominious failure; a fiasco. In most battles and wars, there are winners and losers.…
27 Photos of the Events Surrounding the Anwar Sadat Assassination
Muhammad Anwar el-Sadat was the third President of Egypt, serving from October 15, 1970, until his assassination by fundamentalist army…
25 Rare Pictures of Fidel Castro
Fidel Castro was a Cuban revolutionary and politician who was Prime Minister of Cuba from 1959-1976 and President from 1976…
25 Photographs of the History of the FBI, Part 2: World War I, Espionage, and the Red Scare
The Bureau of Investigation started with mostly white-collar and civil rights cases such as land fraud, banking fraud, copyright violations,…
21 Moving Images of the Warsaw Uprising During World War II
In 1939, the Nazi German forces began their occupation of Poland. By 1944, the Russians were advancing from the East…
18 Captivating Images of the History of the Berlin Wall
On June 15, 1961, the First Secretary of the Socialist Union Party and the German Democratic Republic State Council, chairman…
Today in History: “Mr. Gorbachev, Tear Down this Wall.” (1987)
By the mid-1980s, it was very clear that the Soviet Union was on the verge of collapse. The government structure…
Today in History: The ‘Domino Theory’ Comes Under Fire by the CIA (1964)
Vietnam was a devastating war for America. Over the course of 20 years, the United States fought to keep the…
Today in History: Joseph McCarthy Clashes with the United States Army (1954)
After World War II, the fear of Communism was almost tangible in the United States. The Red Scare was worsened…
The Strange Life of Joseph Stalin’s Body Double
History is stranger than fiction. As the Second World War raged on, Joseph Stalin, the Premier of the Union of…