Reading and Writing

On the occasion of last month's 50th anniversary of construction of the Berlin Wall the press published pieces on the omnipresence of sp...

How Marja-Liisa Linkoaho, a Finnish consular employee, was recruitted by CIA to smuggle agents out of East Berlin: “When I was going to work...

Here's a take on the reasons behind the erection of the Berlin Wall, a Cold War symbol: "during the 1950s, American  cold warriors ...

Some day I'll tell you how I used to cross the Cold War borders of various Eastern Bloc countries, including Soviet Russia, armed with ....