Why it’s time to give the Soviet Union its due for World War II The Soviet effort was essential to defeating the Nazis. December 5, 2018 More than 6 years ago ...

The Soviet Union paid the harshest price: though the numbers are not exact, an estimated 26 million Soviet citizens died during World War II, including as many as 11 million soldiers.

By 1944. the U.S. was producing 96,000 military aircraft, more than double the production of the Soviet Union which was producing only 40,000 aircraft. The U.S. produced significantly more tanks ...

By far the most deadly and destructive military conflict in history, World War II took the lives of at least 27 million Soviet soldiers and civilians. The war on the Eastern Front (or as it is ...

The film "The Changing Face of Eastern Europe" explores the evolution of Eastern European nations under Soviet influence post-World War II. It details the transition from strict Soviet control to ...

Germany’s conflict with the Soviet Union represented a level of brutality not seen in the other areas of Europe during World War II.Of all the German casualties suffered during the Second World ...

World War II took place from 1939 to 1945 between the Axis powers — Germany, Italy and Japan — and the Allies — mainly France, Great Britain, the Soviet Union and the United States.

According to Brunstedt’s thoroughly researched book, the Soviet understanding of World War II, which Russians call “the Great Patriotic War,” consisted of two competing narratives. One story was ...

May 9, 2025 marks the 80th anniversary of the victory in the Great Patriotic War of 1941–1945, the most important and dramatic part of World War II, a triumph that came at an immense human cost ...

Here’s What You Need To Remember: Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia supported different sides of the Spanish Civil War, which they used to test new weapons and tactics. Early in the morning of ...

1. When Germany invaded the Soviet Union in June 1941, a small group of young Belorussians fled to the forests. As the invading Nazis and their local collaborators murdered more than 800,000 ...

Seventy-five years ago and just months after the end of World War II, Dynamo Moscow became the first Soviet soccer team to tour Britain. The four games in November 1945 generated huge fan interest ...