Ahead of the 80th anniversary of Victory, Vladimir Putin and President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko visited the memorial ...

After setbacks, disappointment and humiliation, it was in the unforgiving deserts of North Africa that Britain finally ...

To prevent its findings from being blocked or watered down by the defense department’s bureaucracy, ONA was instructed to forward them directly to the Pentagon’s senior leaders. At the time ONA was ...

A shocking encounter between a Las Vegas resident and city marshals has sparked another federal lawsuit accusing marshals of ...

The Soviet Union's failed Kosmos 482 Venus spacecraft is set to make a somewhat delayed reappearance as it slams into the Earth in the next few weeks. As well as this, the series of probes ...

A Soviet-era spacecraft meant to land on Venus in the 1970s is expected to soon plunge uncontrolled back to Earth. It’s too ...

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 ...

Betrayed by their purported “allies” and left reeling by the lighting war conducted against them, the Soviet Union found itself on the backfoot as Nazi troops and tanks sped into the Soviet ...

In late March 1972, the Soviet Union's Cosmos 482 was launched. But that attempted Venus probe ran amuck during its rocket-assisted toss to the cloud-veiled world. Major elements of that failed ...

Kosmos 482—originally launched on March 31, 1972, as part of the Soviet Union's ambitious Venera program to explore Venus—is expected to make a crash landing on Earth around May 9–10 ...

One of the starkest examples comes from the Soviet Union, when Joseph Stalin’s purges ... At the Nuremberg Trials after the war, German Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel testified that many generals ...

Here's the standard high school history class summary of the Soviet Union: The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) was a communist state from 1922 to 1991 and was a big rival of the US from ...