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Central and eastern Europeans tell their stories of how their countries were transformed into communist states after 1945.

The whole communist world celebrates Stalin’s 70th birthday in December 1949 including the ‘brother nations’ of eastern Europe. 

While the Red Army was advancing towards Berlin in 1944, Stalin was already planning to incorporate Eastern Europe into his sphere of influence.

As the catastrophe of the Ragnarök draws near, Hödr falls out of favour in Asgar and Odin sends his ravens to find the fugitive Loki

 An old priestess asks Frigg about the creatures' oath not to harm her son Baldr. 

 In Asgard, Baldr, the son of Odin and God of beauty and justice, is haunted by nightmares predicting his death.

Odin tries to delay the impending doom of Asgard and, with the Valkyries, raises a gruesome army of the dead in Valhalla. Meanwhile, the poet god Kvasir roams the nine worlds to teach his knowledge.

Dune is a world in a novel and the most widely read science fiction novel of all time.

The medieval period is often though to be the least hygienic in European history. But was that really true?

Positive utopias and tales of a better world seem to have vanished from science fiction. But why?