The iconic war photograph of the raising of the flag over the Reichstag was taken on this day in 1945. Charles and Heather ...

In the 1970s, the Soviet Union missed a strategic initiative because it expected to join the so-called Western community on equal terms, Russian historian, director of the Institute for Systemic and ...

Most of the American flags on the surface of the moon are still standing to this day. Unfortunately, they're not visible, ...

The authorities are reportedly planning new restrictions on symbols at memorial sites in a move critics say distorts history ...

The event marked the fall of the U.S.-backed Republic of Vietnam and paved the way for the nation’s unification under ...

Hitler's betrayal of his ally cost the lives of 29 million Russians... but the Eastern Front broke Germany's armies and ...

Years ago, Vladimir Kanevsky’s floral sculptures started turning up in Manhattan’s most elegant living rooms. Now his work is ...

The North Vietnamese came south in a wave. It was unbelievable how quickly things happened," recalled Maj. James Kean, an ...

A 2.5-tonne concrete Soviet emblem has been removed from the roof of the Russian Cultural Center in Tallinn, the latest ...

With the remarkable level of bloodshed associated with its career, one can see how S-13 earned the admiration of Joseph Stalin.

Germany’s invasion of Poland in 1939 and of the Soviet Union in 1941 set off mass migrations of Polish Jews eastward. Precise figures are hard to come by, but hundreds of thousands of Polish ...

IMAGE: The flag of the Soviet Union being raised above the Reichstag. Photograph: Kind courtesy Yevgeny Khaldei/Wikimedia Commons Russia has invited Prime Minister Narendra Modi for the annual ...