On September 17 1939, the Soviet Red Army invaded Poland from the East while it was fighting Nazi Germany in the West.

Explore one of the most dangerous and secretive routes during the Cold War: the transit path from West Germany to West Berlin, cutting through the Soviet-controlled East Germany. This 103-mile route ...

A communist government was established in Soviet-occupied areas of east Germany, creating The German Democratic Republic (GDR), often referred to as East Germany.

Pour Out. Already integrated Soviet-bloc plans have driven East Germany ahead of Red China and Czechoslovakia as Russia’s No. 1 trading partner, turning Soviet raw materials into every kind of ...

Germany on Tuesday marked the anniversary of the 1953 uprising in Berlin against the East German communist government. "We commemorate the suffering of the people who wanted nothing more than their ...

Long the Reddest, deadest corpse in the Soviet satellite closet, East Germany showed faint stirrings of unnatural life last week. East German guards were busy knocking a 5-by-9-ft. hole in the Wall ...

Scattered across Germany, but primarily in what was once the Soviet-dominated German Democratic Republic in the east, are more than 4,000 protected monuments commemorating the sacrifices of Soviet ...

Our foreign policy toward Eastern Europe is concerned with two closely linked areas: the Soviet Union, and the European states to the east and southeast of Germany which are connected with the Soviet ...

The iconic "kiss" mural depicting Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev and German Communist leader Erich Honecker at East Side Gallery a day ahead of the 35th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall.

Soviet and East German propaganda organs have singled out two prominent Czech liberals, both Jews, to blame for the current wave of protests in that country against repressive measures imposed by ...