Hitler invaded the Soviet Union because conquest in the East was central to Nazi ideology and ambition.

In the spring of 1945, the U.S. Navy quietly handed over 149 warships to the Soviet Union at a remote Alaskan outpost, ...

Fifty years ago, the Broad Street Bullies took the Soviet Union's Red Army team to task at the Spectrum in South Philly in the midst of the Cold War. A new documentary will tell the story of the ...

The Soviet soldiers never saw him. Their artillery failed to kill him. Entire units refused to advance because of his skills. Simo Häyhä killed more enemy combatants than any sniper in recorded ...

The Yak-9’s wooden airframe design represents a true engineering marvel—considering that this plane was being deployed against some of Hitler’s most advanced military technology on the Eastern Front.

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 ...

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Here’s What You Need to Remember: The most likely outcome of war would have been short Chinese success, followed by a sharp, destructive Soviet rebuke. Americans tend to remember the Cuban... Here’s ...

Despite being the world’s largest air force, the Soviet Air Force (Voenno-Vozdushnye Sily or VVS) was caught on the back foot by the German invasion on 22 June 1941. On the first day alone, an ...

Russia’s Putin signed a law making April 19 the Day of Remembrance for victims of the genocide of the Soviet people, tying ...