In the 1990 film "The Hunt for Red October," a Soviet Navy captain who is disenchanted with the Soviet system defects to the United States with a new, secret submarine propulsion system.

President Biden’s polarizing speech on Thursday night sent social media ablaze with a glowing "blood red" background that stunned viewers. Biden aimed to frame the state of U.S. politics as a ...

From what has leaked out of Mao’s speech, the 63-year-old Chinese ruler, in a long, theoretical harangue to 800 ideological commandos, denied two fundamental propositions of Soviet ideology: 1 ...

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán sounded off on the European Union in a Monday speech, comparing the country's membership to over four decades of Soviet occupation.

Pavel Litvinov is a former Soviet dissident and human rights activist who played a key role in protesting state repression in the U.S.S.R. In 1968, he was among the eight protesters who staged a ...

Putin's speeches invoke Russia's fight against fascism in WWII to justify the war in Ukraine — and use propaganda strategies from Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union, historian says ...

The red flag that flew over the Kremlin, symbol of the USSR, was lowered. The Soviet Union – was over and Yeltsin was in control. “We are living in a new world,” Gorbachev said.

Mikhail Gorbachev – the last leader of the former Soviet Union from 1985 until 1991 – has died at the age of 91.