Roman Surovtsev was prompt in picking up his two daughters from school every afternoon. It’s important to him to be there for his smiley 3- and 5-year-old girls, peppering them with questions about ...

During a bill signing ceremony in June, Donald Trump made the bizarre claim that Vladimir Putin led the Soviet Union during World War II. "He fought with us," Trump stated. "He lost 51 million people.

Igor Dyatlov was a tinkerer, an inventor, and a devotee of the wilderness. Born in 1936, near Sverdlovsk (now Yekaterinburg), he built radios as a kid and loved camping. When the Soviet Union launched ...

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McGill University provides funding as a member of The Conversation CA. McGill University provides funding as a member of The Conversation CA-FR. “You’re next,” said a Russian historian I interviewed ...

Alexander Solzhenitsyn in West Germany following his deportation from the Soviet Union in February 1974 Public domain via Wikimedia Commons By 1973, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn was already “Russia’s ...

IN LATE SEPTEMBER workers erected a new structure in Tiananmen Square. It is 18 metres tall, resembling a basket of fruit and flowers. Similar floral-themed displays have sprung up across Beijing in ...

Last week at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Vice President Kamala Harris officially became the Democratic nominee for US president. The symbolic and celebratory event — which included ...

"And the Soviets were none the wiser. Sound like something from a movie script? It really happened." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it ...

Originally produced eight decades ago, the impact of the IS-2 Heavy Tank still reverberates today. The formidable armored vehicle was vital to the Soviet Union during two of its most important ...

Early in the 1950s, with global tensions rising, the United States set about reinforcing both its arsenal of weapons and its repertoire of military vehicles. This era saw the birth of, among many ...

A Metropolitan Opera singer received death threats after she was mistaken for another Chinese soprano who sang a Soviet Union anthem in the ruins of a Ukrainian theater where hundreds were killed by ...