The Soviet T-34 tank was vital in securing the Red Army's victory in WW2 The Russian government has warned Poland that it will face sanctions if it removes monuments glorifying the Soviet victory ...

For decades Russians have seen no reason to doubt Soviet military historians, who portrayed the Battle of Prokhorovka on 12 July 1943 as a turning-point, where the Red Army seized the initiative ...

The very first car produced in Soviet-era Poland after World War II has gone on display near Warsaw after it was tracked down ...

The Blitz ended when the Germans turned their focus toward the Soviet Union. World War II ended in Europe with Nazi Germany’s ...

Throughout World War II, Mongolia was a vital source of aid to the Soviet military and, in 1945, China was pressured into giving up its claims on Mongolia by a victorious Soviet Union. A ...

Conceptually, it never changes, whether you’re re-fighting WW2 or blowing planes out of the ... Hitler before the outbreak, causing the Soviet Union to become the de facto baddies.

In a campaign whose numbers may be easy to ignore, the brief war in 1929 set much of the stage for pre-World War II Soviet military developments, the Second Sino-Japanese War, and World War II in Asia ...

Marine John Kinsel Sr., one of the last surviving Navajo Code Talkers who transmitted messages during World War II, has died. He was remembered Wednesday in a procession of more than 120 vehicles ...

They also wanted their new rivals, the Soviet Union, to see their powerful ... the surprising things key people thought at the time. WW2: Countdown to Hiroshima: The bomb that changed the world.

It began when Nazi Germany unleashed ferocious attacks across Europe - but it spread to the Soviet Union ... war in history comes to an end. WW2: How was D-Day, the biggest ever seaborne invasion ...

Through the lens of the myth and remembrance of victory in World War II, arguably the central defining event of the Soviet epoch, the book shows that while state historical narratives reinforced a ...

From Stalingrad to the dropping of the atomic bomb, see key moments that shaped the outcome of WWII. Why it’s important to hear stories from WWII’s last living survivors Why it’s important ...