EditorialBorne Sulinowo, which was a German territory before World War II; seized by the Red Army in 1945; and occupied by the Soviets until 1992, in Poland on March 29, 2023. (Maciek Nabrdalik/The New York Times)
EditorialBorne Sulinowo, which was a German territory before World War II; seized by the Red Army in 1945; and occupied by the Soviets until 1992, in Poland on March 29, 2023. (Maciek Nabrdalik/The New York Times)
EditorialClothing and belongings of Russian soldiers among burned out vehicles outside Lyman in eastern Ukraine, Oct. 2, 2022. (Nicole Tung/The New York Times)
EditorialVolunteers with the Ukrainian organization Vostok-SOS carried Oleg Nagel from his home, in Kherson, Ukraine on Thursday, Feb. 2, 2023. (Ivor Prickett/The New York Times)
EditorialIN COPYRIGHT UNTIL JAN.2017 Kto protiv sovetov. [Those against the Soviets] [Written on the black flag]: Down with the Soviets. Depicts a general, a capitalist, a priest and a kulak. The general is holding a black flag stating 'Down with the Soviet...
EditorialGen. Mohammed Amin Dara-e-Sufi, right, a provincial council member, with members of his militia in Nahr-e-Shahi, Balkh province, Afghanistan, July 10, 2021. (Jim Huylebroek/The New York Times)
EditorialPedestrians cross a bridge near the House of Soviets, background, in the center of Kaliningrad, Russia, Jan. 27, 2021. (Emile Ducke/The New York Times)
EditorialAnas Haqqani, the youngest son of the insurgent chief Jalaluddin Haqqani, who is part of the Taliban delegation at the negotiating table in Doha, Qatar, Sept. 23, 2020. (Mujib Mashal/The New York Times)
EditorialSupporters of the late Ahmad Shah Massoud wave the Northern Alliance flag on a street in Kabul, Afghanistan, Sept. 8, 2020. (Jim Huylebroek/The New York Times)
EditorialThe boxy tower apartments of Macroyan Kohna, a neighborhood built by the Soviets some 50 years ago in central Kabul, Afghanistan, Nov. 7, 2019. (Kiana Hayeri/The New York Times)
EditorialMeeting of the Allied High Commission for Germany. Around the table Andre-Francois Poncet, France; John McCloy, USA; Sir Ivone Kirkpatrick, Great Britain. After 1948, the Soviets refused to take part in the meetings. Bonn, Petersberg, 1951.
EditorialIN COPYRIGHT UNTIL JAN.2017 Kto protiv sovetov. [Those against the Soviets] [Written on the black flag]: Down with the Soviets. Depicts a general, a capitalist, a priest and a kulak. The general is holding a black flag stating 'Down with the Soviet...
EditorialLatvia. Riga. House of the Blackheads (Melngalvju nams). Erected in 14th century for the Brotherhood of Blackheads, a guild for unmarried German merchants in Riga. Major works were done in the years 1580 and 1886. The structure was bombed to a ruin by ...
EditorialThe Hungarian Revolution began with a first mass-rally in Budapest on October 23, 1956. It was crushed by Soviet tanks and artillery after days of street-fighting. A Hungarian soldier, the red star on his cap replaced by the Hungarian national emblem...
EditorialWhen Imre Nagy announced that Hungary would leave the Warsaw Pact,the Soviets decided that the Revolution had gone too far and sent the Red Army to crush it. 42 years later,on February 18,1998,the Hungarian Parliament voted to apply for membership in NATO.
EditorialMeeting of the Allied High Commission for Germany. Around the table Andre-Francois Poncet, France; John McCloy, USA; Sir Ivone Kirkpatrick, Great Britain. After 1948, the Soviets refused to take part in the meetings. Bonn, Petersberg, 1951.