In the biting cold of the winter of 1939, the Soviet forces, huddled in their ill-fitting uniforms, trudged through the ...

The Soviet Union suffered the greatest losses of any country as it fought the Nazis in World War II. The last Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev opened up state archives and historians came up with a new ...

Charging angrily that Albania “deliberately keeps aggravating relations with the Soviet Union,” Russia last week ordered its ambassador in Tirana to pack up and come home. In turn, Albania’s ...

Galina Brok-Beltsova, who has died aged 99, was the last survivor of Stalin’s three female air regiments. She enlisted in the Red Army aged 16 in 1941 and flew 36 combat missions as a bomber-navigator ...

In early World War II, on Nov. 30, 1939, a Soviet-Russian army invaded Finland in a surprise massive attack. The Finns were eventually outnumbered nearly 3 to 1. The population of the Soviet Union in ...

World War II is one of the most significant events in human history. It claimed the lives of millions, devastated the economies of multiple countries, and forever changed life as we knew it. Its ...

MOSCOW (AP) — A monument to Josef Stalin has been unveiled at one of Moscow’s busiest subway stations, the latest attempt by Russian authorities to revive the legacy of the brutal Soviet dictator. The ...