The Soviet-Afghan War raged for nine years and is considered a major part of the overarching Cold War between the US and its ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday praised Soviet soldiers for ending the "total evil" of Auschwitz on the 80th anniversary of the Red Army's liberation of the Nazi death camp. "We will always ...

Moscow 1936 During the demise of the Soviet Union, the army played some role in the changes more than once, for better or worse. During the 1991 attempted coup against President Gorbachev ...

Teaching of history in the Soviet Union and Russia has always focused far more on the vast losses among Soviet soldiers and civilians in what is known as the Great Patriotic War than on Nazi ...

Russia, the successor to the Soviet Union, was not invited due to the war ... Putin said that if the Soviet soldiers who took part in the liberation of the camps could not be invited due to ...

Jan. 27 (UPI) --Holocaust survivors and their supporters marked the 80th recognition of Soviet Union soldiers liberating Auschwitz on Monday. About 50 survivors returned to the site where some 1.1 ...