For decades Russians have seen no reason to doubt Soviet military historians, who portrayed the Battle of Prokhorovka on 12 July 1943 as a turning-point, where the Red Army seized the initiative ...

The PPSh-41 was designed during the late 1930s and went into Soviet service in 1941, at the outset of World War II. Its ...

Rare archival photos capture Mongolia in the period from 1924 to 1992 when the East Asian country was a communist satellite ...

Belgrade marked 80 years since its WWII liberation on Sunday, but an iconic mural commemorating the event was painted over -- ...

Alexievich’s book recounts the experiences of hundreds of Soviet women who volunteered in World War II after a staggering number of male combatants were killed. The Japanese translation of the ...

Conceptually, it never changes, whether you’re re-fighting WW2 or blowing planes out of the ... Hitler before the outbreak, causing the Soviet Union to become the de facto baddies.

The aircraft were sent to the Soviet Union by Britain after Nazi Germany invaded the country in 1941. They were part of a package of allied military support for the USSR, paid for by the United ...

It began when Nazi Germany unleashed ferocious attacks across Europe - but it spread to the Soviet Union ... war in history comes to an end. WW2: How was D-Day, the biggest ever seaborne invasion ...

The Soviet Union detonated its first atomic bomb, known in the West as Joe-1, on Aug. 29, 1949, at Semipalatinsk Test Site, in Kazakhstan. The Soviets called their first atomic test "First Lightning." ...

It is embarrassing that a former president would say, even use that kind of language, that he just learned about World War II and his false impressions of how the records of the Soviet Union ...

This study examines Soviet Ukraine's transition from war to 'peace' in the long aftermath of World War II. Filip Slaveski explores the challenges faced by local Soviet authorities in reconstructing ...

Post-WWII, tension between the USA and the Soviet Union led to a worldwide Cold War. Reasons for this included: ideological differences, problems in Germany, the arms race and the Korean War.