In the summer of 1943, a month long Battle at Kursk took place and it was the largest combined clash of tanks, men and ...

The Yakovlev Yak-9 stood out as the fighter aircraft with the highest production in the Soviet Union during WWII, with an estimated 16,769 units manufactured. Fueled by a 1,650 horsepower engine ...

The Kremlin on Thursday “respectfully” disputed US President Donald Trump’s recent remarks on the Soviet Union playing a supportive role during World War II. On Wednesday, Trump said on his ...

Da, tovarishiy (“Yes, comrades”), there were Soviet troops in North Vietnam, and in significantly larger numbers than their Korean War predecessors: an estimated 844 commissioned officers ...

The memorial in St Petersburg to 'Soviet civilians who fell victim to the Nazi Genocide' On the edge of St Petersburg stands a dramatic memorial more than 40 metres high. At the very top is the ...

Year 1944. Western Ukraine is occupied by the Nazi army, who has commenced a large scale, highly classified construction. An order has arrived from the Soviet center of operations to find out the real ...

Yet this is not a Holocaust memorial as such. Its official title is "the memorial to Soviet civilians who fell victim to the Nazi genocide". I listen to a tour guide as she tells a group of ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin is copying Soviet-era approaches that bankrupted the USSR and that he used to criticize, according to Poland's foreign minister. Speaking on a panel at the World ...