Two years ago, three East Berlin students donned homemade Russian uniforms, doctored a car to look like a Soviet military sedan and calmly drove through a checkpoint in the Communist Wall ...

The checkpoint was designated as ... the "Disneyfication" of the site, where fake Soviet Red Army fur hats, gas masks and pieces of the Berlin Wall can be found for sale. The move echoes a ...

Only a few months after the final division of Berlin, this was the setting of a spectacular standoff between American and ...

The Soviet leadership responded to the Western allies' currency reforms by installing their own new currency in East Berlin just 24 hours before the West mark was to go into circulation.

The final weeks of April 1945 saw Soviet troops advance on Berlin, bringing World War II in Europe to an end. Amid the Soviet onslaught and the confused Nazi retreat, Russian troops found ways to ...

Checkpoint Charlie was the most popular border crossing between East Berlin and West Berlin during the Cold War. It has also had a starring role in major films, including the James Bond franchise.

Alarmed by the building of the Berlin Wall, President Kennedy sent ... the Hungarian rebels were being violently repressed by the Soviet army and in the Truman Doctrine, the US had said they ...

enjoying the summer sun against the dramatic background of bombed-out Berlin. The exhibit features works by the likes of prominent Soviet artists such as Ilya Arons and Valery Ginzburg ...

Soviet troops began to replace ... The only legal way across the border was through checkpoints. The video below shows a 1961 report by Peter Woods from Berlin on witnessing the boundary between ...