Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev transferred the peninsula from Russia to Ukraine in 1954, when both were part of the USSR, to ...

The March 1945 crossings, by Patton and Montgomery's forces, gave the Allies beachheads with which to invade Germany.

We’re facing an existential threat from the Russian Federation,” Wladyslaw Teofil Bartoszewski, the deputy minister of ...

Russia's annexation of Crimea was recognized internationally only by countries such as North Korea and Sudan. In Russia, it ...

Filip Kovacevic chronicles a previously unpublicized operation by the Soviet Lithuanian state security service targeting a Jesuit priest in Berlin and his contacts in Lithuania between 1945 and 1954.

The Russian president, who carefully cultivates his image in the media, dressed in camouflage when visiting Kursk.

After World War II, the Allied Powers disagreed over how a conquered Germany should be governed. The Communist-run Soviet Union controlled the East, while the West — supported by the U.S., Great ...

Thousands of individuals—many of whom wore far-right insignia and Nazi uniforms—participated ... who fought alongside the Nazis during World War II, according to Légió Hungária, the ...

If the war were to end soon, it's likely Russia would opt for a large, Soviet-style army ... to devise its blitzkrieg strategy in World War II, while America's failure in Vietnam spurred military ...

The Yakovlev Yak-9 stood out as the fighter aircraft with the highest production in the Soviet Union during WWII, with an estimated 16,769 units manufactured. Fueled by a 1,650 horsepower engine ...

The territory of the Polish state was partitioned between Germany and the Soviet Union. Parts of occupied Poland were ... has signed with an organization or firm and which regulate uniform insurance ...