During the Great Patriotic War, Olga Kosorez volunteered for military service, was stationed on the western front as a radio operator, and participated in the final Soviet assault on Berlin in May ...

1 Children hold photos of their great-grandfather, killed in one of Stalin's purges, under the slogan "We know the truth." - At an exhibition this month, a Moscow gallery displayed posters intended to ...

Before dawn on June 22, 1941, some 3 million German troops, 3,600 tanks and 2,700 planes swarmed into the Soviet Union. Over the next couple days, as Soviet troops were overwhelmed by the Nazi advance ...

Project awkwardly meshes dramatic reenactments with first-person testimonials and archival footage. Subtitled “Stalin, the Nazis and the West” and scheduled on three successive Wednesdays, ...

The number of Russians who approve of Soviet generalissimo Joseph Stalin's wartime leadership is growing, as is the desire to commemorate World War II and Russia's triumph over Nazi Germany, ...

Soviet leader Josef Stalin cleverly manipulated the U.S. and Great Britain during WWII, sowing the seeds for Communist expansion throughout Europe and Asia, according to this richly detailed account.

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. Series revisits the intricate dance of ruthless dictators that played ...