Cold War

The Prague Spring: Soviet soldier chasing young man who had thrown stones at a tank, 1968

A disembodied statue of Joseph Stalin’s head on the streets of Budapest during the Hungarian Revolution, 1956

Kennedy delivering his “Ich bin ein Berliner” speech, 1963

Mathias Rust, the teenager who flew illegally to Red Square, 1987

Private Heath Matthews waiting for medical attention after a raid on enemy positions during the Korean War, 1952

Canadian Soldiers Playing Hockey on a Rink They Built in Korea, 1952

The Cuban Missile Crisis in pictures, 1962

East German Soldier Helps a Little Boy Sneak Across the Berlin Wall, 1961

MiG-21 crashed into an East German apartment block, 1975

The Story of Berlin Wall in Historical Pictures, 1961-1989

Four-year-old Michael Finder of East Germany is tossed by his father into a net held by firemen across the border in West Berlin, 1961

The Korean War in Rare Historical Pictures, 1951-1953

Heinz Meixner defects from East Germany by driving through Checkpoint Charlie after removing his windshield, 1963

When the Soviets arrived to crush the Prague Spring, 1968

The Rise of the Berlin Wall Through Rare Photographs, 1961-1989

Execution of a traitor during the war in Afghanistan, 1980

Violent Pictures of North Korean Anti-American Propaganda Art, 1950-1970

These Photographs Show the Everyday Life Along the Berlin Wall, 1985-1986

The Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan: Rare and Revealing Images from 1979–1989

Fidel Castro and Nikita Khrushchev drinking wine from a drinking horn in the Soviet Republic of Georgia,1963

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