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Flora Leipman, a British Jew, falsely condemned as a spy, was sent to a labour camp
In May 1944 the Tatar people of Crimea were forced into exile by the Soviet army
The daughter of the Soviet dictator, Svetlana defected to the West in 1967
The Yalta conference that decided the shape of post-war Europe
The Red Army took control of the German capital Berlin, in May 1945
Millions of people were sent to brutal labour camps in the USSR under Joseph Stalin
In 1945 the English physicist was exposed as a nuclear spy for the Soviet Union.
In June 1948 Soviet troops cut supply lines around West Berlin in Germany.
In 1949, Moscow arranged the deportation of tens of thousands of Estonians to Siberia.
After WW2, many Soviet citizens who had ended up outside the USSR, refused to go home.
In 1950, East Germany claimed American planes were dropping beetles over their fields.
In June 1953 East German workers went on strike in protest at Soviet rule
In October 1956 Hungarians took to the streets of Budapest to protest at Soviet rule.
In 1956 a Hungarian Cardinal sought refuge in the US Embassy in Budapest.
In May 1960 Gary Powers was taken captive by the Soviets when his spy plane was shot down
In 1961, one of the world's best ballet dancers, Rudolf Nureyev, defected from the USSR.
On 13 August 1961, East German soldiers and construction workers began the Berlin Wall
Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev finally offered to withdraw nuclear missiles from Cuba
In the 1960s, many Soviet families moved to a flat of their own for the first time.
Lee Harvey Oswald had spent two years living in the USSR after serving there as a Marine
The Cold War came to life in Britain when two spies went public in Moscow in 1956.
In May 1988, the death was announced in Moscow of the English spy Kim Philby.
The story of Russian spy Alexandr Ogorodnik and his CIA handler, Marti Peterson.
The secret life of Sascha Anderson, an avant-garde poet who informed for the Stasi
