When the leader of the Soviet Union Joseph Stalin died on March 5, 1953, millions in the country wept with grief. Many millions more wept, unsure of why. For almost three decades, the Soviet ...

By 1943, with the war tilting in the favor of Stalin’s Soviet Union following the victories at Stalingrad and Kursk, the Red Air Force sought a warplane that could outperform the latest Nazi ...

The Soviet Union Stole Aircraft Designs from the Americans One concrete example of the parasitic relationship that Stalin had with the Americans was in the way that the Soviets exploited their ...

In his thorough historical exploration of memorials and magnificent edifices in Stalin’s Soviet Union, Kalashnikov argues that the frenzy of monument building and grand architectural projects was ...

It was commissioned into the Soviet Navy’s Baltic Fleet on July 31, 1941—on an accelerated schedule, due to Nazi Germany’s massive invasion of the Soviet Union the previous month.

The atheist Soviet Union regarded Jehovah's Witnesses as anti-Soviet because of their refusal to serve in the army. Under Stalin, hundreds of their leaders were jailed and thousands were deported ...