Alleys in cemeteries and hundreds of officers: what is known about Russia's losses in Ukraine
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Comrade Dad, the chilling BBC sitcom that gave us ‘Londongrad’ – and enraged the Soviets
Watched with almost 40 years’ hindsight, Comrade Dad sometimes feels like serious-minded satire. There were other WW3-themed sitcoms from the time: Only Fools and Horses building a…
Francis Fukuyama: progressives are threatening our most cherished values
“Francis Fukuyama” was once the punchline to a gibe that went: “Have you heard the latest political science joke?” The reference was to the 1992 book that…
Who’s behind the Buzzer? The chilling mystery of Russia’s ‘ghost’ radio station
For these operators, huddled around their sets while disembodied messages emerged from the static, it was a formative experience. “You’re listening and all of a sudden you…
The Ipcress File is a timely throwback to the Cold War cultural golden age
All right, I hear you. The new Ipcress File on ITV is just fine. Though why anyone, ever, wants to remake a film which stars Michael Caine…
The Ipcress File, episode 1, review: a sexy spy thriller with one short-sighted bit of casting
“My friend and I will settle for the best of everything,” says Tom Hollander’s menacing, smarmy, charming spook-wrangler Dalby, in ITV’s The Ipcress File. It’s a statement…
The Ipcress File, first-look review: Caine is a hard act to follow for TV’s new Harry Palmer
Does any film have a classier opening than The Ipcress File? After a superbly executed scene involving a scientist on a train, we cut to Harry Palmer…
Fugitives by Danny Orbach, review: the Nazis who became Cold War spies
There were two ways in which the Allies could make use of a senior Nazi in the years following the end of the Second World War. One…
The Berlin Exchange by Joseph Kanon review: a giant of Cold War spy fiction returns
Among the dozens of spy novelists who have set their books during the first decades of the Cold War, many connoisseurs would place the American author Joseph…
The Berlin Exchange by Joseph Kanon review: a giant of spy fiction returns
Among the dozens of spy novelists who have set their books during the first decades of the Cold War, many connoisseurs would place the American author Joseph…
Russia and China rise from their knees to challenge US dominance
Much of the statement released on Friday by Russia and China formally declares what has long been the case: that Moscow and Beijing have similar views and…
Russia and China put Pax Americana in their sights with a return to frosty geopolitics
Much of the statement released on Friday by Russia and China formally states what has long been the case: that Moscow and Beijing have similar views and…
Friedrichstrasse 19 by Emma Harding review: a decade-straddling love letter to Berlin
Friedrichstrasse is, of course, a real street, still combining the plush with the rough, the romance of Berlin with its tragedy. Bisected after the war by the…
‘We were stupefied’: Philip Johnston on being at Thatcher’s side as the Tories staged a coup
Philip Johnston, The Telegraph’s assistant editor, was in Paris with Margaret Thatcher while a vote on Michael Heseltine’s challenge for the Conservative leadership took place. Just four…
My Cold War mission: to get Francis Bacon to Moscow
The exhibition was finally scheduled for September 22, 1988. As it approached, my mood was touched by the chill of fear. Trouble was brewing. At my suggestion,…
100 seconds to midnight: Why it might be time for the Doomsday Clock to be smashed
The biggest question, of course, is this. At a time when we’ve seen the limitations of polling and modelling exposed again and again, why should we believe…
Are you ready to play Cold War mind games?
When Mao Zedong visited Moscow in 1949, Stalin had a modified lavatory installed in his guest’s lodgings so that the Chairman’s stools could secretly be collected and…
Why are we repudiating the values that allowed the West to triumph?
The Cold War ended roughly a generation ago. Our side won. Soviet communism collapsed – completely disintegrated – when its populations, literally in the case of East…