Operation Barbarossa, the German invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941, was one of the largest military campaigns in history, ...

The strains of Chopin`s ”Funeral March” drifted across Red Square yet again Wednesday as the Soviet Union buried another of its leaders, this time President Konstantin Chernenko. It was… ...

Former Soviet prisoners of war were trained by the Nazis as guards andused regularly in the Germans' machinery of mass murder, a historiantestified Wednesday at the trial of John Demjanjuk.The ...

Officially, the red color of the flag was to represent the heroic struggle of the Soviet people, led by the Communist Party, for the construction of socialism and communism.

Soviet Horror. Further fights erupted as units returned from Peking and started telling their unanointed comrades in the local Red Guard schools how things should be run.

In the 1990 film "The Hunt for Red October," a Soviet Navy captain who is disenchanted with the Soviet system defects to the United States with a new, secret submarine propulsion system.

City workers in Kyiv on Saturday dismantled an equestrian statue of a Red Army commander, the latest Soviet monument to be removed in the Ukrainian capital since Russia launched its full-scale ...

Red Army soldiers hoist the Soviet flag over the Reichstag in Berlin, May 2, 1945. The defense of the Soviet Union against fascism came at an enormous price for the Soviet people.

A pensioner who came to the monument wearing a Soviet cap was detained for a small red star on her headdress—one of many Soviet symbols that have been banned by the reactionary ...

The Soviet Union’s old guard watched as instability and economic despair grew across the country, blaming Gorbachev, as general secretary of the Communist Party, and his policies for its ...