An initiative group of Russians in Washington plans to hold a march of the Immortal Regiment with Soviet symbols, dedicated to the 80th anniversary of the end of the so-called Great Patriotic War [as ...

In the final months of World War II, the 14th Waffen SS Galicia Division fought desperate battles across Slovenia and Austria, clashing with Tito’s partisans and resisting Soviet forces near Graz.

MOSCOW, March 21 (Reuters) - A military court in St Petersburg jailed Soviet-era dissident and anti-war activist Alexander Skobov for 16 years on Friday after convicting him of "justifying terrorism," ...

After separation from his unit, Finnish soldier Aimo Koivunen made a one-man methamphetamine-fueled odyssey through the Arctic Circle to return home.

Using only a basic rifle, Simo Häyhä picked off Soviet aggressors one by one. His story inspired the stupendously violent ...

MINSK, 20 June (BelTA) – On 20 June, a wreath-laying ceremony was held at the Soviet war memorial in Mannswörth, Schwechat, Lower Austria, the Belarusian Embassy in Austria told BelTA. The event ...

History is seldom tidy. Eras overlap and unfinished business from one period lingers into the next. World War II was a war like no other in the magnitude of its effects on the lives of people and the ...