61 years ago, during the Cold War, the "Red Line" went into operation, a direct communication channel between the United States and the Soviet Union to prevent accidental nuclear conflict. Initially based on teleprinters, the line later evolved into…
According to Nobel laureate Paul Krugman, Gorbachev's noble attempt to reform the Soviet economy conditioned the birth of the Russian Federation and paved the way for Putinism without forgetting the disastrous Yeltsin era
With the disappearance of Gorbachev, a great man in history leaves even if in Russia his Perestroika and his Glasnost had long since entered oblivion
After a long illness, Mikhail Gorbachev, father of Perestroika and Glasnost with which he tried to reform the USSR and protagonist of the fall of the Berlin Wall that changed the world, died at the age of 91. Nobel Peace Prize,…
The August 1991 coup in the Soviet Union against Gorbachev was a resounding failure for its promoters: it swept away what remained of communist power and favored autonomist thrusts, at the same time determining the rise of Yeltsin
The Soviet occupation, which took place 54 years ago, put an end to the largest attempt at liberalization ever occurred up to then in a country belonging to the Eastern bloc: the tanks crushed the Dubcek Spring
Space mission resulted in global mapping of Mars with over 7 photos of the entire surface, revolutionizing Martian imagery and marking another point for Americans in the space race
On the night of August 20-21, 1968, Soviet-led Warsaw Pact troops invaded Czechoslovakia and killed Alexander Dubcek's Prague Spring who had sought to bring about "a communism from…
On April 12, 1961, a 27-year-old Soviet pilot became the first man to travel in space, completing an entire elliptical orbit around the Earth
On January 21, 1921, the PCI was born in Livorno from a dramatic split from the socialists, then refounded in '44 by Togliatti who, despite ambiguity and reticence, was a pillar of Italian democracy but who, after the collapse…
58 years have passed since the day when the US and the USSR, after coming one step away from atomic war, found a compromise that paved the way for a new period of détente
On October 24, 64 years ago, Soviet troops began maneuvers against Hungary, which was thrilled with freedom and reform under the gloomy cloak of Stalinism - Together with the Khrushchev report, the Hungarian facts proved to be decisive…
A recognition that marked an era, the one that sanctioned the end of the Cold War
On June 20, 1963, Washington and Moscow decided to create a direct line of communication between the White House and the Kremlin - The goal was to avoid unleashing a nuclear war by mistake - But, unlike what is…
