Here's the standard high school history class summary of the Soviet Union: The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) was ...

Before Huurre's decision to leave Finland in the early 1930s for the Soviet Union, she led a "perfectly normal life", says Hyrske. "In the book, she tries to explain it to herself and to the ...

Evgenia Shishkova and Vadim Naumov won a world championship title together in pairs skating in 1994 and narrowly missed out ...

At the height of the Cold War, those of us on the western side of the wall had plenty of choice over our radio listening, ...

Russians who fought in Chechnya and Afghanistan came home to silence and stigma. There’s a very public push to make things ...

January 27 marks the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, the notorious Nazi concentration camp. It could be the last round anniversary at which survivors can play a major role, and the ...

The Russian leader often credits the Soviet Union with defeating Nazi Germany in his speeches, especially in the context of Russia's offensive in Ukraine. Putin has regularly accused Ukrainian ...

Nazi German forces murdered some 1.1 million people at the site in southern Poland, which was under German occupation during World War II.

Monday’s ceremony marking the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz is more than just the moment to remember some 6 ...