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

Time heals all wounds, it is said, and that certainly is the case in Russia. Moscow has unveiled a new statue of Joseph ...

On 14 June 1941, the Soviet Union deported more than 10,000 people from Estonia to Siberia, in one of the darkest chapters of the country’s history – among them were over 7,000 women, children and the ...

Under the cover of night, a 131‑foot TB‑3 bomber carried two fighters on its wings to bomb Nazi fuel supplies—the legendary Zveno project. But hidden within the mission’s secrecy lay ...

Nearly a quarter of the one million Kazakhs conscripted into the Red Army during the 'Great Patriotic War,' the Russian term for World War II, went missing. Eighty years later, their descendants ...

The OGPU commissar systematically trained German Communists for the disintegration of Germany. The Soviet Russia diplomats and consular agents aided greatly in this.

Moisei Ruchimovitch, the son of a blacksmith, was today appointed Railway Commissar of the Soviet government. He is the second Jew to become a member of the Soviet cabinet, the other being M ...

A military encounter between Japan and the Soviet Union was triggered by allegations of territorial intrusion, which came to be known as the Nomonhan Incident. Chapter 1 describes the incident as ...

The Soviet Union, the Commissar said, “can under no circumstances be suspected of any sympathy whatsoever for aggressors.” For the “appeasers,” of Britain and France, he had nothing but scorn.

Hungary had had five brief days of freedom in October 1956 before the doublecross. Faced with the impressive force of the rebellion, Soviet Vice Premier Anastas Mikoyan had given a solemn pledge to ...

They were all killed out of hatred for the faith during World War II. The 108 Martyrs include three bishops, 76 priests (51 diocesan, 26 religious), three seminarians, seven religious brothers ...