During the Cold War, the Soviet military undertook a secret mapping program that’s only recently come to light in the West. Military cartographers created hundreds of thousands of maps and ...

Drawing on graph paper with blue grid background and a black outline of the Soviet Union at lower right with rectilinear border added in graphite. Above, four additional representations of the Soviet ...

The Battle of Kursk was a catastrophic defeat for Germany; the Wehrmacht suffered around 200,000 casualties and lost nearly ...

The World Maps DLC for Workers & Resources Soviet Republic brings eight new maps based on real-world locations, including Austria, Czech Republic, East Germany, Eastern United States (New York ...

In his book The Red Atlas: How the Soviet Union Secretly Mapped the World, John Davies pores over the maps, including those that were created of London.Here, we look at five extracts from a ...

Russian officers with Soviet and Russian flags during the Victory Day Parade at Red Square on May 9, 2022 in Moscow, Russia. Guests on the Russia state TV discussed the Soviet Union's achievements ...

Mikhail S. Gorbachev, whose rise to power in the Soviet Union set in motion a series of revolutionary changes that transformed the map of Europe and ended the Cold War that had threatened the ...

The Soviet sacrifice of World War II The Soviet Union lost a staggering 27 million people in what it calls the Great Patriotic War from 1941-45. That sacrifice left a deep scar in the national psyche.