Susan Kalev, 80, lives in a two-bedroom apartment in Washington Heights. On a sunny spring day, you’ll find her three cats ...

The Hungarian leader, who had been in control since 1949, was Mátyás Rákosi, a hard-line communist fully under the control of Moscow. Rákosi’s secret police (the AVH) created a climate of ...

Soviet troops eventually reentered Budapest and crushed the uprising. But despite their eventual defeat, the Hungarian rebels of 1956 inflicted what would come to be known as "the first tear" in ...

The right-wing populist prime minister has stepped up his attacks on critics, largely journalists and civil society organizations, since US President Donald Trump entered office. https://p.dw.com ...