In the midst of the Second World War, the Soviet Union was producing hundreds of brand new IS-2 heavy tanks. However, this ...

The IS-2 was developed during the last few years of World War II. It went by the name Object 240, as per the Soviet system of naming military prototypes (such as Object 279, the unique Soviet tank ...

Putin cherry-picks from Russian history, combining homage to Soviet sacrifice in the “Great Patriotic War,” as World War II is known in Russia, with the reactionary ideas of exiled tsarist White ...

On June 25, 1950, more than 135,000 North Korean troops invaded South Korea, starting the Korean War that cost millions of ...

Without a doubt, the Soviet Union bore the brunt of World War II, wearing down Germany's war machine in a savage war of attrition. There can, however, be no talk of a "decisive" contribution. Why ...

A memorial hall in East China has updated information on the first group of 18 Soviet Union airmen who sacrificed their lives to assist China in resisting Japanese aggression during World War II.

Soviet infantry in combat during the Battle of Kursk in 1943 in Russia. It was World War II battle between German and Soviet forces on the Eastern Front fought from July 5 till August 23, 1943.

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.