A group of Soviet mechanicsslog through a muddy forest on a mission that would eventually help change the course of World War II: reaching dictator Joseph Stalin. Among them is an engineer who wants ...

Days after Hiroshima, Stalin declared war on Japan. In Manchuria, the Red Army unleashed one of the fastest offensives in ...

The Soviet Union suffered the greatest losses of any country as it fought the Nazis in World War II. At the same time, Joseph Stalin’s regime attacked its own citizens, executing, incarcerating and ...

In 1940, Stalin ordered the execution of 22,000 Polish prisoners. The Soviet Union hid the truth for 50 years. Here's the story of the Katyn Massacre.

More than 400 gold bars were on their way to the U.S. as payment for war materials when German ships sunk the HMS Edinburgh.

Newspaper clipping shows Stalin giving his “Election Speech” in Moscow. The caption reads, “Comrade I. V. Stalin delivers a speech at the pre-election meeting of voters of the Stalin electoral ...

Moscow (AsiaNews) - Chinese President Hu Jintao will be among the many world leaders to participate in celebrations for the 65th anniversary of the end of World War II in Europe, VE-Day, in Moscow ...

Finland's President Alexander Stubb, in an interview with Associated Press, said Putin has achieved little in four years beyond dubious "territorial gains" at an enormous human cost. Soviet leader ...

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 ...