Stalin's likeness is located near the Battle of Stalingrad Museum and is flanked by similar busts of World War II-era Soviet leaders Georgy Zhukov and Alexander Vasilevsky. Statues of the communist ...

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In 1938, Stalin’s sweeping purge decimates the Red Army’s leadership, executing or imprisoning thousands. The motives remain ...

A new bust of Soviet leader Josef Stalin has been unveiled in Volgograd ahead of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s visit to the city on February 2, the 80th anniversary of the Soviet Army's victory ...

In 1945, before the guns of World War II had even gone silent, Winston Churchill ordered a shocking study: could the Allies ...

The Soviet Union suffered the greatest losses of any country as it fought the Nazis in World War II. The last Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev opened up state archives and historians came up with a new ...

I have noticed that, for a long, long period of time, politicians and the news media in general focus their attention on perhaps a couple of "villains," but rarely comment on the very worst villain in ...

The Kremlin has admitted for the first time to recruiting inmates to fight in the war against Ukraine, saying the recruits "are atoning for their guilt with blood," a phrase first used by Soviet ...

The Soviet regime killed a generation of literary artists in the 1930s. Their legacy is being reclaimed as Ukraine fights to preserve its cultural heritage. By Constant Méheut Reporting from Kyiv and ...