Conrad Schumann defects to West Berlin, 1961
Conrad Schumann was immortalized in this photograph as he leapt across the barri…
Fidel Castro and Nikita Khrushchev drinking wine from a drinking horn in the Soviet Republic of Georgia,1963
The relationship between Fidel Castro and Nikita Khrushchev began when C…
Fidel Castro smoking a cigar and wearing two Rolex watches during a meeting with Khrushchev, 1963
Here Fidel Castro is seen smoking a Cuban cigar and wearing two Rolex watches in…
Kiss of Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev and East German President Honecker, 1986
Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev embraces Erich Honecker, hardline communist and ge…
Kennedy delivering his “Ich bin ein Berliner” speech, 1963
The speech is considered one of Kennedy's best, both a notable moment of the Cold …
Mathias Rust, the teenager who flew illegally to Red Square, 1987
It all began in May of 1987. Mathias Rust was fed up with the Cold War tension bet…
The Prague Spring: Soviet soldier chasing young man who had thrown stones at a tank, 1968
Prague Spring was brief period of liberalization in Czechoslovakia under Alexand…
Romanian Revolution in pictures, 1989
Nicolae Ceausescu ruled Romania for 21 years, earning a reputation as a brutal dic…
A disembodied statue of Joseph Stalin’s head on the streets of Budapest during the Hungarian Revolution, 1956
Built as the birthday present to Stalin on his seventieth birthday (December 21st,…
The standoff at Checkpoint Charlie: Soviet tanks facing American tanks, 1961
In October 1961, border disputes led to a standoff and for 16 hours the world wa…
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