It was an imperialist act because it divided part of European territory between two countries. From 1939 to 1941, the Soviet Union was an ally of Germany on the Eastern Front, supplying it with the ...

With President Trump and many other world leaders preoccupied with the war in Ukraine, some Europeans are growing alarmed ...

Between 1942 and 1945, nearly 8,000 American warplanes traveled through Alaska on their way to the Soviet Union as part of a ...

Martin Bormann was one of the highest-ranking members of Nazi Germany. He disappeared during the final days of the Second ...

Kim Il-Sung became famous for being a dangerous communist in China, being arrested for subversive activities in 1926 (when he was only 14 years old) and again in 1929. In 1931, he joined the Chinese ...

Many Americans know of Josef Stalin’s Terror of the late 1930s, during which more than 1 million people were arrested for ...

War Secretary Pete Hegseth tore into the Pentagon’s entrenched acquisition bureaucracy in a fiery address Friday, comparing the department’s planning culture to Soviet-style central planning that he ...

Gift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Kyiv | Russia has started using jet-powered glide bombs to hit targets far beyond the front line, an upgrade to Moscow’s arsenal ...

Many East Germans are more sympathetic toward Moscow than their western compatriots, reflecting decades of Soviet ties and disillusionment since reunification. By Christopher F. Schuetze Reporting ...

A curious footnote to history bobbed up in the wake of General de Gaulle’s Moscow visit. Before Joseph Stalin, Charles de Gaulle had met one other Soviet marshal—Mikhail Tukhachevsky, the Red Army’s ...

“Well, that went badly,” my friend Tony told me in response to this month’s elections. Based in greater New York, he is a crackerjack biochemist. And as an amateur political scientist, he perfectly ...

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