This prelude to our Eastern Front WWII series explores how Stalin reshaped the Soviet Union into a global military force.

Cape Town, for example, played a crucial role in the Lend-Lease freight, being a principal port of call for Anglo-American ships delivering war goods to the Soviet Union via the Persian Gulf.

Play War Thunder for free. Enlisted is a multiplayer ... Einstein assassinated Hitler before the outbreak, causing the Soviet Union to become the de facto baddies. Both are different from most ...

you’ll love War Thunder. Hoard vehicles, change the course of history, and hunt for the inaccuracies to nitpick—what’s not to like? If you’re eager to master the game, the official War ...

Victoria Amelina’s unfinished notebook was salvaged after she was killed by a missile. From a bunker, meanwhile, John Lyons ...

one with echoes of the Cold War. Investigators suspect that K.G.B. operatives, working undercover in Brazil during the last years of the Soviet Union, may have filed birth certificates in the ...

No, this is not a reference to the Ukraine War—though it very well could have ... produced and exported tanks in history. The Soviet Union’s vast industrial capacity constructed roughly ...

THE SOVIET Union was a brutal regime fronted by dangerous ... It's true that USSR forces played a role in defeating the Nazis in World War Two - but Putin has corrupted the history and exploited ...

Kennedy met with the CIA following a 1955 tour of the Soviet Union, relaying his observations to the spy agency as a voluntary informant, the documents show. The newly available material comprises 54 ...

Analysis: 100 years after his death, Lenin seems to be an afterthought in modern Russia A century after the death of Vladimir Lenin, the founder of the Soviet Union is largely an afterthought in ...