While the reputation of Stalin suffered when the horror of his purges were revealed, he is still much admired by some ...

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THE SOVIET Union was a brutal regime fronted by dangerous, power-hungry madmen who ruled with a vice-like grip. Sound ...

The fact that the Soviets were using large numbers of their older tanks did not inherently mean that they were likely to lose ...

A brand new statue of the Soviet dictator Josef Stalin has been unveiled at a Metro station in Moscow. Meanwhile, an adviser ...

After the collapse of the Soviet Union, little has been done to contain Russia’s consolidated dominance in the murky waters ...

The police expected to find that the Russians had forged the documents or bribed municipal officials to create them and slip ...

In the 1970s, the USSR used nuclear devices to try to send water from Siberia's rivers flowing south, instead of its natural ...

Around 3 million ethnic Germans who emigrated from the former Soviet Union live in Germany today. Many have become prosperous ...

May 9, 2025 marks the 80th anniversary of the victory in the Great Patriotic War of 1941–1945, the most important and ...