There was a thought that, as the guns fell silent at the close of World War 2, the world might experience a lasting peace. This illusion was shattered fairly quickly, as the Iron Curtain extended into ...
While 1991 is often given as the end of the Cold War, the truth is that the Cold War never ended; it just paused before resuming again. With the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, the reunification of ...