Between 1942 and 1945, nearly 8,000 American warplanes traveled through Alaska on their way to the Soviet Union as part of a ...

In the 1970s, the Soviet Union built the K-278, an advanced nuclear-powered submarine designed to push the limits of technology. But during a patrol in 1989, disaster struck when a turbine failure led ...

Crimea had been under Russian administration for centuries, yet the Soviet Union abruptly reassigned it to Ukraine in 1954. The stated reasons sounded symbolic and ceremonial, but the deeper motives ...

Thirteen Jewish leaders and artists were killed on the ‘Night of the Murdered Poets,’ one of the campaign’s most infamous ...