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Cold war

August 2024

  • GERMANY-HISTORY<br>Picture taken on February 10, 1962 shows the Glienicke bridge in Berlin after US pilot Gary Francis Powers was swapped for Soviet spy Rudolf Abel. The Glienicke Bridge, which during the Cold War linked West Berlin with East German territory, made it the ideal location for dozens of spy swaps. AFP PHOTO / DPA GERMANY OUT (Photo credit should read DPA/DPA/AFP via Getty Images)

    Prisoner swaps between Russia and west started in 1962 during cold war

    Two groups of people gathered on a bridge separating West Berlin and East Germany for exchange of Russian spy and American pilot

June 2024

  • The abandoned spy station on Teufelsberg, the manmade hill created from second world war riubble

    Berlin by rail: a cold-war adventure

  • Larisa Faber

    I was born behind the iron curtain but I got lucky. It’s why I’m voting in these European elections

    Larisa Faber

April 2024

  • Hella Pick in 2017.

    Hella Pick obituary

    Formidable foreign correspondent for the Guardian who covered major global events from the 1960s to the 90s, and commanded great respect from world leaders

March 2024

  • East German soldiers working on the Berlin Wall at the border crossing near Friedrichstraße in 1964.

    Former Stasi officer faces trial for 1974 Berlin border shooting

    Martin Naumann is one of first former East German officials to be charged with murder instead of manslaughter

January 2024

  • Evdokia Petrov, wife of Soviet defector Vladimir Petrov, at Sydney airport in 1954

    Australian arts in focus
    Displaced comrades: cold war rivalries, lies and spies among Sydney’s Russian émigrés

    A new book reveals how two clubs on opposite sides of George Street – and the cold war – played a key role in Australia’s era of espionage

December 2023

  • West Berliners queue to apply to make the crossing to East Berlin, 19 December 1963. For the first time since its erection, the Berlin Wall was opened for border crossings for 18 days over the Christmas period.

    From the Guardian archive
    The Berlin Wall is opened for Christmas – archive, 1963

  • Henry Kissinger

    The Kissinger years: flawed legacy of the man behind US cold war policy

November 2023

  • Biden and Xi walking in a garden

    Biden’s China summit was a reminder: the US should talk to its rivals more often

    Christopher S Chivvis
  • Declassified imagery from Cold-War spy satellite programmes has revealed 396 Roman forts spread widely across the Syrian Steppe.

    Cold war satellite images reveal hundreds of unknown Roman forts

August 2023

  • Black and white photo of Milan Kundera.

    War, identity, irony: how Russian aggression put central Europe back on the map

    Jacques Rupnik
    A 1980s essay by Czech writer Milan Kundera on the peoples trapped between east and west is enjoying a new lease of life, says research professor Jacques Rupnik

July 2023

  • ‘The questions that the film’s director Christopher Nolan places at the center of Oppenheimer don’t feel theoretical to me.’

    I was a US nuclear missile operator. I’m grateful for the Oppenheimer film

    Cole Smith
    The questions at the center of Oppenheimer don’t feel theoretical to me. From 2012 to 2017 I worked on nearly 300 nuclear silo alerts

June 2023

  • Helene von Bismarck

    This is Europe
    Why did it take a murderous war on Ukraine for Germany to wake up to the threat from Russia?

    Helene von Bismarck
  • David Bickford

    Intelligence service career informs former MI5 and MI6 man’s novel

May 2023

  • President Nelson Mandela, right, gives former US secretary of state Henry Kissinger a welcome hug, Johannesburg, April 1994.

    Kissinger at 100: Statesman or war criminal? His troubled legacy – in pictures

    First as US national security adviser, then as secretary of state, Henry Kissinger intervened around the world during the 1970s, shaping events in China, Africa and the Middle East, with consequences that reverberate today
  • Boys in front of a destroyed school in Camacupa, Angola.

    Kissinger at 100: The ‘bloody, dreadful, filthy’ Angolan civil war – in pictures

    The Guardian visited Angola in 2001 as the long civil war – aggravated by the interventions of Henry Kissinger – between Unita and the government wound down. The images show how the conflict affected the people and landscape around the city of Kuito in Bie province

    • Kissinger at 100: How his ‘sordid’ diplomacy in Africa fuelled war in Angola and prolonged apartheid

    • From rampaging teens to female assassins: why has East German culture become so cool?

    • ‘Excessive loyalty’: how Republican giant George Shultz fell for Nixon, Reagan … and Elizabeth Holmes

April 2023

  • Jane Seymour as mystic Solitaire, left, and Roger Moore as James Bond in 1973 film Live and Let Die.

    007 meets the occult: why spies and sorcerers are a perfect fit in fiction

    Espionage and magic share codes, secrets and rituals and a new cohort of writers are now casting their literary spells
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