After the Russian revolution in 1917, the new Soviet government formed a Workers’ and Peasants’ Red Army. The first of 10,000 ...

MOSCOW: Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday (Jan 27) praised Soviet soldiers for ending the "total evil" ...

The state funeral of Queen Victoria of Great Britain was held on 1901. A little over a decade later, the plush Grand Central ...

Groups from across Europe meet for a ‘Day of Honour’ to mark a failed attempt by Axis troops to break the 1945 Soviet siege ...

On this day in 1944 Soviet forces broke the almost 900-day siege of Leningrad. Exactly one year later the Red Army entered the gates of the Auschwitz death camp. The difficult question about ...

The greatest World War II movies ever capture one of the most devastating conflicts in history in historically accurate and ...

Americans tend to remember the Cuban... Here’s What You Need to Remember: The Soviet military combined grandiose vision and global aspiration with a defense-industrial base that had severe ...

The Axis powers initially gained success in WWII through advanced weaponry and engineering, with German innovations ...

Russia has depleted much of its Soviet-era military-industrial stockpile, with remaining equipment in poor condition, the independent media outlet The Insider reported on Jan. 28. The Russian military ...

1964, where around 1.1 million mostly Jews, perished during World War II, from 1940 until 1945. (AP Photo, File) A picture taken just after the liberation by the Soviet army in January, 1945, shows a ...