Samusenko was a woman who defied conventional gender norms and societal expectations to fight for her country during one of ...

In “November 1942,” Peter Englund pieces together a month in the Second World War with the diaries and memoirs of the people who survived it. By Caroline Alexander The Soviet military often used ...

In the late Cold War, the Soviet Union explored a bold new idea: a lighter, more deployable version of its powerful Motor Rifle Divisions. Tested in 1987 in the Kiev Military District, the Light Motor ...

BERLIN (AP) — David Dushman, the last surviving Soviet soldier involved in the liberation of the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz, has died. He was 98. The Jewish Community of Munich and Upper Bavaria ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Maria Limanskaya directing traffic at the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin in 1945 - Evgeny Khaldey Maria Limanskaya, who has died aged ...

Mikhail Gorbachev had been the leader of the Soviet Union for just 13 days when he was suddenly faced with an international crisis. On March 24, 1985, a Soviet sentry shot and killed U.S. Army Maj.

GRODNO, 30 April (BelTA) – A memorial at the mass grave of Soviet soldiers and partisans in Gilibert Park was officially opened on 30 April following its reconstruction, the Grodno City Executive ...

As World War II drew to a close, millions of Russians and other Soviet citizens found themselves outside the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. Some were prisoners of war, others civilian forced ...