Then in 1931, Stalin had the structure dynamited to make room for his Palace of the Soviets project -- an ambitious skyscraper (it would have been the tallest structure in the world) that never ...

However, the Soviets’ siege of Budapest in 1944 left the building heavily damaged, and subsequent nationalization under ...

Blunt, an art historian, worked at Buckingham Palace as Surveyor of the Queen’s Pictures for decades. He was under suspicion for being connected to the Soviets for years before he admitted the ...