The Soviets installed governments in a group of countries around themselves for protection and exploitation - a number of Eastern European states were controlled by the Soviets and were ...

Between 541 and 544, there was also the first and most severe documented occurrence of the Justinianic plague in the eastern Roman Empire (also referred to as the Byzantine Empire), in which ...

leading to the fall of three European empires and revolution in what would become the Soviet Union. The past 100 years have seen another world war and the rise and fall of the Soviet Union ...