State television news has focused coverage on the 81st anniversary of Russia breaking the Siege of Leningrad. Read more at ...

The largest camp in the entire system of Nazi concentration and extermination camps, where more than 1 million people ...

Eighty years ago on January 27, 1945, soldiers from Russia's Red Army entered the gates of Auschwitz-Birkenau in Poland and ...

When the Red Army liberated the Nazi concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz-Birkenau on January 27, 1945, the ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Mondaypraised Soviet soldiers for ending the “total evil” of Auschwitz, 80 years after ...

Yes, there were Soviet troops in North Vietnam, and in significantly larger numbers than their Korean War predecessors. Although the Cold War never turned into a “hot war,” i.e., full-blown World War ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday praised Soviet soldiers for ending the “total evil” of Auschwitz, 80 years after ...

Of the 15 Soviet republics, Russia lost the most soldiers – an estimated 6.7 million. In the Soviet-Afghan war, which lasted 10 years, the Soviet army suffered about 15,000 casualties.