When World War II came about, the only battleships in the Soviet Union's fleet were the ... their weight forced the ship to list in that direction, with the deck and other cannons sinking below ...

The building was on East 69th Street at the corner of Third Avenue—just three blocks from the Soviet U.N. mission on Park Avenue at 68th Street, which provided cover for dozens of KGB agents.

TBILISI, Georgia (CNN) -- The leaders of a former Eastern Bloc nation and four former Soviet republics showed support for Georgia in its conflict with Russia at a massive rally in Georgia's ...