Sofia House, as it is named, is the home of Balkan Holidays Ltd. This is the last surviving remnant of the capital’s “Iron Curtain Row”. Before the Berlin Wall fell in 1989 and the communist ...

Sofia House, as it is named, is the home of Balkan Holidays Ltd. This is the last surviving remnant of the capital’s “Iron Curtain Row”. Before the Berlin Wall fell in 1989 and the communist dominoes ...

That is the Iron Curtain in action,” he said. He added that Slovakia rejects this new division and announced a plan to travel to Moscow for Victory Day commemorations on May 9 to present what he ...

the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), that took a leading role in smuggling banned books into the communist regimes behind the Iron Curtain in the 1980s. Of course, the US mission wasn’t devoid ...

Editor’s note: This story was originally published Aug. 26, 2020. It was updated May 9, 2025, with details of the failed mission Kosmos-482. The Pioneer and Voyager probes the United States sent ...