Sunday, 3 October 1993 was an ordinary, pleasant October day in Moscow. With the resident BBC Bureau Producer, Kate Whyte, and the visiting BBC Correspondent, Bill Turnbull, I drove to Oktyabrskaya ...

Soviet-led military exercises in Czechoslovakia ... to the Warsaw Pact and the Eastern Bloc economic alliance known as Comecon. Unappeased, by mid-August the Kremlin had decided to intervene ...

Soviet Union to its ally countries. Construction plans for the project began in 1958 when the 10th session of the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance (Comecon), was held in Prague. By 1960 ...

We walked towards the Comecon building (used by the Russian ... Then I recognised a face: Colonel General Albert Mikhailovich Makashov Soviet-era general I had filmed him many times before.