But he was onto something: by 1967, nearly half of the 235 million people living in the Soviet Union were under the age of 27, most of them born in the years immediately following World War II.

Many here apparently don't know that on July 30, 1937, Stalin’s secret police launched a campaign that would see more than 1.5 million "anti-Soviet elements" arrested and nearly 700,000 of them ...

Soviet leader Josef Stalin ordered Stalingrad defended at all costs and German advances during the late summer and fall of 1942 were pushed back during the winter, and what was left of the German ...

The most lethal Soviet sniper of WWII, Mikhail Surkov, had 702 enemy kills to his name. During the summer and autumn battles of 1942 in eastern Ukraine and the North Caucasus, this Siberian hunter ...

Russian investigators have recovered the remains of a Soviet World War II fighter pilot, still in the cockpit of his biplane where he went down in a remote Arctic region, 80 years after his ...

The Soviet Union bore the brunt of the fighting against Nazi German forces for three years, from summer 1941 until the Western allies opened a second front on D-Day at Normandy in 1944. But during ...

Four times Hero of the Soviet Union, Marshal Georgy Zhukov was the architect of the Red Army’s key victories over the Nazis during World War II. He was always dispatched to the most dangerous ...

All episodes of Soviet Storm: WW2 in the East TV series. Trending 'Wicked: For Good' Trailer 'Zootopia 2' Teaser Trailer 'Superman' Trailer 'Ironheart' Trailer.

MYTISHCHI, Russia – For a 16-year-old Soviet girl during World War II, the first surprise after enlisting to fight the invading Nazis was the freezing, filthy stables where she was to sleep with ...

The Czech capital has stripped a Soviet World War II commander of Prague honorary citizenship. Prague’s city assembly has on Thursday May 26, 2022 approved mayor Zdenek Hrib’s proposal to ...