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 ...

The Soviet-Afghan War raged for nine years and is considered a major part of the overarching Cold War between the US and its allies, and the Soviet Union. A major faction was the Afghan Mujahideen - ...

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 ...

The state funeral of Queen Victoria of Great Britain was held on 1901. A little over a decade later, the plush Grand Central ...

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 ...

Evgenia Shishkova and Vadim Naumov won a world championship title together in pairs skating in 1994 and narrowly missed out on Olympic medals, before moving to the U.S. and coaching generations of ...