For decades after it happened, Operation Mars would be taught in Soviet History books as a brilliant and effective diversion ...

In the early days of World War II, 1939 to 1940, the Nazi German war machine advanced across eastern Europe, until its soldiers stood on the outskirts of Moscow, deep into the Soviet Union, poised and ...

Detail sometimes poses problems for the reader when considering literature on the Eastern Front, as in the excellent, but sometimes somewhat indigestible, works of David Glantz. Already the author of ...

RZHEV, 30 June (BelTA) – The Battles of Rzhev played a crucial role in the victory of the Soviet people over Nazism, Russian President Vladimir Putin said at a ceremony to unveil the Monument to the ...

MOSCOW — Russian President Vladimir Putin and his counterpart from Belarus on Tuesday unveiled a monument honoring fallen Red Army soldiers who fought in one of the most bloody battles of World War II ...