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 ...

During the Cold War, many radical new designs in submarines were crafted by both the United States and their rivals in the Soviet Union. In some respects, however, the Soviet Red Navy had the more ...

The Soviet Union does not conceal its expenditures for defense, because all mankind knows of the peaceable character of the Soviet Government. -"Finansy S.S.S.R." ("Finance of the U.S.S.R.," a ...

Post-apocalyptic movies reflect 80s fears of nuclear war and societal collapse. Hell Comes To Frogtown is a cult gem with a ...

Russia will launch a new program called the Digoria Political Education Workshop to provide "ideological training" to personnel who work with youth, a source in the Kremlin told Russian state media.

The Baltic States of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, which had been independent between the two world wars, were annexed by the Kremlin in June of 1940, during the dramatic days when Paris fell to the ...

Zurab Tsereteli, a prominent Georgian-Russian sculptor known for colossal, often controversial, monuments, died early on ...

Following the Soviet Union’s collapse in 1991, the CIA came into possession of a 250-page KGB dossier detailing an extraordinary incident involving a Soviet military unit and a UFO over Ukraine. The ...

Keywords Eastern Europe, Soviet Union, communism, Warsaw Pact, liberalization, nationalism, Cold War, reform, peaceful coexistence, Iron Curtain Vatican reveals official cause of death of Pope ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday praised Elon Musk, comparing him to Sergei Korolev, the chief engineer behind the Soviet Union's space success in the 1950s and 1960s, state news ...