F ans have hailed an epic WW2 war film as a "masterpiece", with one giving it a 10/10 score. Enemy at the Gates (2001) tells ...

Almost 40 percent of the Soviet population lived in territory occupied by the Germans and, in many of these areas, the Soviet commissars had abused the local populations so badly that the people ...

Nikolai Baibakov, who served as Josef Stalin's oil commissar and later guided the Soviet Union's planned economy for two decades, has died. He was 97. Mr. Baibakov, believed to have been the last ...

On August 23, 1939, the Soviet Union and Germany signed a nonaggression treaty in Moscow, paving the way for the Nazi and Soviet invasions of Poland the following month and the beginning of World ...

Nikolai Baibakov, who died Monday in Moscow at 98, oversaw the Soviet oil industry during World War II. Later, as head of Gosplan, the Soviet economic planning commission from 1965–85, he was in ...

Country of origin: Soviet Union 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.

Early History. The Russian imperial army and navy disintegrated after the outbreak of the Revolution of 1917, so the Council of the People's Commissars created the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army ...

Anastas Mikoyan, deputy chairman of the Council of People’s Commissars of the USSR (Soviet government), had three of his sons fighting in World War II. As was customary among the children of ...

On the eve of World War II, ... a commissar in the 1920-21 Soviet Republic in Gilan Province, and a Comintern agent -- and his followers, members of the Communist Tudeh party, ...

The advice of Anatol Lunatcharsky, Soviet Commissar of Education, to the Jews in Soviet Russia is simply to fu## themselves in the melting pot of the union of Socialist Soviet Republics. In a ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. NIKOLAI Baibakov, the last living commissar to serve under Joseph Stalin — he oversaw Soviet oil production during World War II ...

In modern WWII movies, unpalatable episodes rooted in reality are taken to the extreme and beyond, which generally distorts the viewer’s perception of both the war and the Red Army’s role in it.