Yes, there were Soviet troops in North Vietnam, and in significantly larger numbers than their Korean War predecessors.

Seeing this as an existential threat, the Soviet Union united the countries under its own sphere of influence in Eastern Europe into a defensive alliance known as the Warsaw Pact. These two ...

It comes after the prime minister visited Ukraine for the first time since his party's election victory in July.

Now men will go content with what we spoiled. Or, discontent, boil bloody, and be spilled. - Wilfred Owen, “Strange Meeting” ...

Slovakia’s pro-Russian prime minister has raised the prospect of his country leaving the European Union and Nato, arguing ...

Castro’s endorsement of the Warsaw Pact's suppression of the Prague Spring in 1968 led to an incremental improvement in Cuba’s relations with the Soviet Union and the Eastern Bloc.

NATO and the Warsaw Pact were established. Both competed in an arms race. Flashpoints – Hungary, Berlin, Cuba In the 1950s and early 1960s, relations between the USA and the Soviet Union ...

Summary: Formed in 1949 to counter Soviet expansion, NATO aimed to prevent Western Europe’s military overrun, focusing on maintaining air superiority, open sea communication lines to North ...