Germany’s invasion of Poland in 1939 and of the Soviet Union in 1941 set off mass migrations of Polish Jews eastward. Precise figures are hard to come by, but hundreds of thousands of Polish ...

a pioneering Soviet engineer who kick-started Soviet Union's early space adventure. The Russian leader was speaking to university students about the country's space policy when he mentioned the ...

During the Cold War, many radical new designs in submarines were crafted by both the United States and their rivals in the Soviet Union. In some respects, however, the Soviet Red Navy had the more ...

Following the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, the CIA acquired a 250-page KGB report recounting the events that transpired after a platoon fired at a flying saucer over Ukraine. The report ...

Keywords Eastern Europe, Soviet Union, communism, Warsaw Pact, liberalization, nationalism, Cold War, reform, peaceful coexistence, Iron Curtain Vatican reveals official cause of death of Pope ...

Lest the headline scandalizes you, this is not an apology for the Soviet Union or its centrally (and badly) planned economy and gulags. So please indulge me. The world, rather two of the most ...

Korolev, who died in 1966, was the lead rocket engineer and designer for the Soviet Union's satellites and rockets. He was also responsible for the first human spaceflight when the Soviet Union ...

Two decades ago, Russian American anthropologist Alexei Yurchak coined the term “hypernormalisation” to describe the absurd and surreal reality of the Soviet Union during its final two decades.

It does not necessarily reflect the view of The Herald. Following Pope Francis’ death this morning (April 21), the Union flag will be flown half mast at royal residences where the King is not in ...

In the Soviet Union, this control was not limited to symbolic gestures – it reshaped the entire academic system. Under Josef Stalin, academic survival depended less on scholarly merit than on ...

BOSTON - The International Skating Union (ISU) apologised on March 27 for displaying the flag of Taiwan rather than the Chinese Taipei emblem at the World Figure Skating Championships in Boston.

A man has been ordered to stop flying a Union Jack flag and a military standard outside his home because they are in a communal garden. Declan Layton, 21, hoisted the flags six years ago to show ...