Today marks International Holocaust Remembrance Day, the 81st anniversary of that liberation. Commemorations are taking place ...

After encircling and destroying Germany’s Sixth Army, the Soviet Union turned endurance, mass production, and ruthless ...

This week, the conflict reached its 1,418th day, the same number of days the Soviet Union's Red Army fought against Nazi ...

The Soviet soldier never saw him. Neither did the one after that, or the next, or the hundreds who followed. Simo Häyhä killed more enemy combatants than any sniper in recorded military history, and ...

In “November 1942,” Peter Englund pieces together a month in the Second World War with the diaries and memoirs of the people who survived it. By Caroline Alexander The Soviet military often used ...

KYIVKYIV — City workers in Kyiv on Saturday dismantled an equestrian statue of a Red Army commander, the latest Soviet monument to be removed in the Ukrainian capital since Russia launched its ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Following years of heated debates, authorities in Bulgaria began dismantling a monument to the army of the Soviet Union that ...

One of the many little-known facts about the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics is that some 25% of its territory lies north of the Arctic Circle. The Soviet Arctic (some of which is south of the ...

The documents published can be accessed on the ministry’s website in its new multimedia section MOSCOW, July 3. /TASS/. Russia’s Defense Ministry has published unique documents on Operation Bagration ...