This month marks 80 years since Japan surrendered in World War II, ending the Pacific War. In this episode of Japan Today Spotlight, we look at how the country is commemorating the anniversary — and ...

Over 70 percent of foreigners visiting the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum feel that the 1945 U.S. atomic bombings of the western Japan city and Nagasaki cannot be justified, a recent Kyodo News ...

Two out of three Romanians believe that Ceaușescu was a good leader for Romania, according to a survey by INSCOP Research and the Institute for the Investigation of Communist Crimes. Pro-EU president ...

Another area of excellence for the Soviets was spying. There were those saps in the West who bought into the Soviet propaganda and willingly served as spies for Russia. Several high profile ...

Charlie English delves into the CIA's attempts to combat communism via literature including '1984' in a book that reminds, in an age of book bans, how powerful stories — and reading — can be.

This narrative began in Soviet propaganda even as the war was being fought, and it was echoed by leftists across the U.K. and the U.S. who denigrated their own countries’ war efforts with their ...

The life and work of Frank Wisner, one of the CIA’s founding officers, offers us a portrait of American intelligence’s excesses.

A Soviet-era Central Asian pop music anthology shines a light on the region's ethnic diversity and music that transcends genres from Korean brass bands to Uyghur garage rock to Crimean jazz.