In 1668, Portugal was recognized as an independent nation by Spain. In 1861, the first Medal of Honor was awarded. It went to ...

but of the "genocide of the Soviet people". He argued that the Nazis' aim had been "to seize our country's rich natural resources and territories, as well as to exterminate the majority of its ...

MOSCOW: Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday (Jan 27) praised Soviet soldiers for ending the "total evil" of Auschwitz on the 80th anniversary ...

A controversial memoir of a Finnish woman who migrated to Stalin’s Soviet Russia in the 1930s and escaped in 1941. Ninety ...

During the purges of the 1930s, many Soviet leaders issued lists of people they wanted arrested and shot, but Beria may have been the only one who personally got involved in torturing his victims.

As Soviet forces pushed back Nazi troops in Europe in 1944 and 1945, they liberated a number of death camps including ...

Lying a relic of Soviet grandeur, people from nearby towns have their wedding photos taken at the iconic ruins. While Tskaltubo's train station still lies rusting, its windowpanes are shattered on ...

George’s ribbon that holds imperial, Soviet, and Russian military medals. “We could go in here,” Sasha shrugs. “But it’s full of people who survived the Nineties.” Sasha survived the ...

Ever an optimist and a peacemaker, Lozansky advocates “resetting the clock with Russia.” ...