After the Russian revolution in 1917, the new Soviet government formed a Workers’ and Peasants’ Red Army.

Churchill in Moscow review. Roger Allam stars as the British Bulldog in an atmospheric World War 2 booze-up with Stalin at ...

In the freezing winter of 1939, the Soviet Union launched an invasion of Finland, expecting an easy victory. Instead, they encountered fierce resistance from outnumbered Finnish troops who used ...

This day became the "Day of the Soviet Army". On April 22 the ... loyal future officers. World War II Looms... In 1937 a drastic purge crippled the Red Army, reducing its morale and efficiency ...

The state funeral of Queen Victoria of Great Britain was held on 1901. A little over a decade later, the plush Grand Central ...

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

But in Russia today there is a discernible shift in focus, away from the Holocaust to how the Soviet people as a whole, including Russian people, suffered in World War Two. More than 27 million Soviet ...

They put up plucky resistance for three weeks but are finally defeated by Germany's powerful army. On 17 September, Stalin sends the Red Army to ... comes to an end. WW2: How was D-Day, the ...

On this day in 1944 Soviet forces broke the almost 900-day siege of Leningrad. Exactly one year later the Red Army entered the gates of the Auschwitz death camp. The difficult question about ...

Hundreds of Finns fought with the German Waffen-SS in Ukraine during World War II. New research shows that many of them were convinced Nazis and may have committed atrocities. The finding has ...

Russia’s Embassy to Poland has started repairing two major cemeteries to Soviet soldiers in the country ... has mass graves in which 10,831 Red Army soldiers are buried. These are the soldiers ...