THE LATE summer sun is beating down on a merry crowd assembled in Neustadt an der Orla, a small town in the east German state of Thuringia. As children slurp ice cream and Thuringian Bratwürste warm ...

“Let’s be honest. No one really wants German reunification. No one!” —Nikita Khrushchev to a West German Socialist delegation. While Western diplomats and editorialists continued to discuss terms by ...

At the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary, Alberta, Katarina Witt, the figure skater once dubbed “the most beautiful face of socialism,” took to the ice to perform a routine set to Bizet’s opera Carmen.

Once a symbol of economic disparity in a reunified Germany, East Germany is now rewriting its legacy. A compelling visualisation from The World in Maps, grounded in Eurostat’s regional GDP data, ...

In all the lands where the hammer and sickle seek to blot out the cross, a pitiless struggle goes on to render unto the Red Caesars the things that are God’s. Last week the spiritual combat zone was ...