In 1945, as World War II came to a close, tensions simmered beneath the Allied victory raising the question: could the U.S.

Soviet aircraft designer Oleg Antonov completed this ambitious design in just a few months, with construction taking place in deep secrecy amid the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union. Research and ...

The Finnish Army was forced to recruit men from the humblest origins to stand up against the Soviet Union in times of need. However, Simo Häyha was no ordinary farmer. Growing up in the woods, Häyha ...

Soviet World War II victory flags are appearing Ukrainian areas Russia has seized, CNN reported. Russia is preparing for its May 9 "Victory Day" — the anniversary of Nazis' World War II surrender. UK ...

For six long years, Mikhail S. Gorbachev assiduously turned his attention to one Herculean chore — dismantling the machinery of repression that his predecessors had so proudly and methodically erected ...

The Cold War was an ideological conflict between the capitalist United States and the communist Soviet Union, and their respective allies. Despite being called a war, it was not a direct military ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin accused the West on Thursday of risking a global conflict and said no one would be allowed to threaten the world’s biggest nuclear power as Russia marked the Soviet ...