Tag: Soviet Union

Russian President Vladimir Putin and Communist Party leader Gennady Zyuganov

Russia’s Communists channel their ancestors, evoke 1917 in warning to Putin over economy

Timothy Nerozzi · April 25, 2026 6:00 am

Leon Trotsky, a Russian revolutionary and rival of Joseph Stalin, assassinated in 1940.

Trotsky’s fatal conceit

Carson Becker · March 27, 2026 4:44 am

Mao Zedong in 1966. (Apic/Getty Images)

How China turned red

Sean Durns · March 13, 2026 6:07 am

Joe Scarborough takes questions from a Harvard audience.

Joe Scarborough warns US could get ‘drunk on militarism’ as Lindsey Graham eyes Cuba

Asher Notheis · March 9, 2026 1:19 pm

The U.S. hockey team pounces on goalie Jim Craig after a 4-3 victory against the Soviet Union in a medal round match at the the 1980 Winter Olympics.

We could use another Miracle on Ice

David Harsanyi · February 20, 2026 2:00 pm

Sisu: Road to Revenge

Beltway Confidential

Sisu: Road to Revenge is even better than the original

Harry Khachatrian · December 9, 2025 11:00 am

Tech billionaires Michael Dell (L) and Susan Dell join U.S. President Donald Trump to make an announcement about "Trump accounts" in the Roosevelt Room at the White House on December 02, 2025 in Washington, DC. The Dells are contributing $6.25 billion of their own money to the program, which aims to have the government provide $1,000 in seed money for investment accounts that will be granted to children born in the next four years. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Dell teaches an anti-socialist lesson

Hugo Gurdon · December 5, 2025 6:10 am

New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani.

Mamdani — the mayor against America

Hugo Gurdon · November 7, 2025 6:10 am

FILE - U.S. President Ronald Reagan, right, and Britain's Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, laugh together during a break from a session at the Ottawa Summit in this file photo dated July 21, 1981, at Government House in Ottawa, Canada. Thatcher and Reagan forged a close alliance in the midst of the Cold War, with the prime minister once telling students that the Republican president's “really good sense of humor” helped their relationship. (AP Photo/File)

Washington Secrets

Thatcher at 100: Gipper and Iron Lady are ‘model’ for US relations

Paul Bedard · October 17, 2025 11:04 am

A Russian soldier fires a 152 mm howitzer 2A65 Msta-B toward a Ukrainian position in an undisclosed location in Ukraine.

Beltway Confidential

Cold War history shows how the Ukraine war may end

John Roberts · September 4, 2025 6:00 am

Beltway Confidential

Russia and China dream up a new World War II history

Sean Durns · September 4, 2025 5:30 am

Democratic NYC mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani speaks during the National Action Network's Saturday action rally at House of Justice in Harlem, Saturday, June 28, 2025, in New York.

Mamdani beware: Government-run grocery stores have historically failed

Mia Cathell · July 30, 2025 10:49 am