MOSCOW: Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday (Jan 27) praised Soviet soldiers for ending the "total evil" of Auschwitz on the 80th anniversary ...

After the Russian revolution in 1917, the new Soviet government formed a Workers’ and Peasants’ Red Army.

Russia’s ambassador to China says Xi returned invitation for Putin to visit China to mark Sino-Japanese war anniversary later ...

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 ...

On this day in 1944 Soviet forces broke the almost 900-day siege of Leningrad. Exactly one year later the Red Army entered the gates of the Auschwitz death camp. The difficult question about ...

did play a part in the Soviet Army's fight against Nazi German troops in Stalingrad during World War II. Proof of that support are the items such as photographs and documents on display at an ...

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

The Yakovlev Yak-9 stood out as the fighter aircraft with the highest production in the Soviet Union during WWII, with an estimated 16,769 units manufactured. Fueled by a 1,650 horsepower engine ...

WARSAW, August 1. /TASS/. Russia’s Embassy to Poland has started repairing two major cemeteries to Soviet soldiers in the country, head of the Russian Defense Ministry’s representative office ...

A survivor brings a candle to the Death Wall at the Auschwitz-Birkenau former Nazi German concentration and extermination camp, during a ceremony marking the 80th anniversary of the camp's liberation, ...

[AP/YONHAP] A Kremlin aide has said the North Korean military may take ... year that commemorates the Soviet Union's triumph over Nazi Germany in World War II, a Russian news agency reported ...