The Soviet Army, with its enormous size and power, was the largest and most formidable military force in history. Between ...

ON June 22 1941 Nazi Germany began its invasion of the Soviet Union. This history of its first weeks is based on a decade’s research, into official documents, personal diaries and letters, court ...

In the tense final days of World War II, Allied and Soviet forces stood at the height of their power what if diplomacy had ...

In the 1990 film "The Hunt for Red October," a Soviet Navy captain who is disenchanted with the Soviet system defects to the United States with a new, secret submarine propulsion system.

While the Browning .50-cal. M2 machine gun has been unequaled for nearly a century, John Moses Browning’s genius design has had one significant 12.7 mm competitor: the Soviet DShK.

On Jan. 27, 1945, the Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz was liberated by the Soviet Red Army troops after a staggering 1.1 million people, most of them Jewish, were killed at the camp. Take a look … ...

Russian for “Red Moscow,” Krasnaya Moskva (Красная Москва) is the name of a neatly packaged, rose-and-orange-scented perfume developed in the 1920s that became so popular in ...

COPENHAGEN, Denmark — A concrete obelisk topped by Soviet stars that was the centerpiece of a monument commemorating the Red Army’s victory over Nazi Germany was taken down Thursday in Latvia ...

The Soviet Union, which was created in the wake of bloodshed, […] Skip to content. ... about 5,000 Soviet Red Army troops moved into Xinjiang in China to aid Sheng Shicai, ...

A Soviet-era statue of a Red Army commander taken down in Kyiv Municipal workers dismantle a monument to Soviet military leader Mykola Shchors in Kyiv, Ukraine, Saturday, Dec. 9, 2023.

The Soviet Red Army uniform was a poor man’s version of the Imperial Russian Army dress from the 19th century. In the run-up to World War II, when Russia had the largest army in Europe ...