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IN the heart of Latvia's dense forests lies the ghostly remains of an abandoned Soviet town that once stood as a secret sentinel of the Cold War era.C

A TINY island in the middle of a Russian river was once the harrowing home to Stalin's chilling cannibal gulag.Nazino Island, in Siberia's Ob river, s

SO Vladimir Putin has claimed another landslide election victory that will see him rule Russia for longer than Soviet monster Joseph Stalin.Putin is s

A GULAG town in the icy tundras now sits frozen in time as it became Russia's most depressing place.Vorkuta is a cemetery of soulless tower blocks, wh

THIS Soviet Palace was set to become one of the biggest landmarks in the world - until its engineers were sent into combat.Plans for the megastructure

Vladimir Putin's Lefortovo Prison on the outskirts of Moscow is where the Russian President's forces keep terrorist suspects, so-called spies and high-profile ex-officials

VLADIMIR Putin has resurrected the feared counterintelligence group Smersh, according to British intelligence.Smersh, its name derived from an acronym

CHINA has fired nine top generals as the country carries out a new wave of purges against key government officials.Xi Jinping's Stalin-like crackdown

A SMALL island off the coast of Croatia might appear from a distance to be nothing more than a peaceful place for farmers' flocks to graze.But a close

Everyone knows about Winston Churchill’s involvement as a British war leader - but few know of his plans to invade Russian-controlled territories after the war was over

The KGB's top-secret facility in Kazan, east of Moscow, targeted young men and women from impoverished parts of Russia and trained them in Marxism, spycraft and seduction