As reports of a German invasion poured in, Stalin refused to believe them. This episode uncovers the mindset behind one of history’s greatest misjudgments. German deception, fearful advisers, and ...

Russians have the chance to pick the greatest Russian in history during a 13-part TV series that began airing there this month. Internet voting has already generated controversy by temporarily putting ...

In 1941, Hitler’s Panthers and Guderian’s panzers pulled off a daring pincer movement that trapped over 600,000 Soviet troops ...

MOSCOW (Washington Post) – In August 1942, 16-year-old Aldona Voldynskaya was taken from a Soviet orphanage by Nazi troops and put to work unloading trucks in Germany. This summer, 60 years later, the ...

The post Jack Black is a Singing Stalin in Trailer for Mel Brooks’ History of the World, Part II appeared first on Consequence. Arriving 40 years after Brooks’ seminal film History of the World, Part ...

Last week, Russia’s lower house of parliament passed a resolution insisting that Josef Stalin’s man-made 1932-33 famine — called the Holodomor in Ukrainian — wasn’t genocide. Not even the Russians ...

FILE - Soviet leader Josef Stalin raises his right hand in salute while reviewing a May Day Parade in Red Square in Moscow, on May 1, 1946. Abortions were banned under Stalin but became commonplace ...

TBILISI -- A depiction of Soviet dictator Josef Stalin inside Tbilisi's main cathedral has reignited debate in Georgia over apparent attempts to recast one of history's most ruthless oppressors of ...

The Potsdam Conference shaped the diplomacy of the end of World War II. And on this day in history, July 17, 1945, following Nazi Germany's surrender in the war, President Harry S. Truman, British ...

Russians have the chance to pick the greatest Russian ever as part of a 13-part TV series that began airing there this month. Online voting... Was Stalin The Greatest Russian In History? Russians have ...