After the Russian revolution in 1917, the new Soviet government formed a Workers’ and Peasants’ Red Army. The first of 10,000 ...

Photos donated to a Hungarian archive reveal the devastating aftermath of the siege of Budapest, which ended 80 years ago.

This day became the "Day of the Soviet Army". On April 22 the ... loyal future officers. World War II Looms... In 1937 a drastic purge crippled the Red Army, reducing its morale and efficiency ...

The state funeral of Queen Victoria of Great Britain was held on 1901. A little over a decade later, the plush Grand Central ...

On Jan. 27, 1945, the Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz was liberated by the Soviet Red Army troops after ... leaving the camp at the end of World War II in Poland in February of 1945.

But in Russia today there is a discernible shift in focus, away from the Holocaust to how the Soviet people as a whole, including Russian people, suffered in World War Two. More than 27 million Soviet ...

What appeared to be pits found around the plain were circular bunkers, each about 10 meters in diameter, that were used by the Red Army to store ... point” of World War II.

On this day in 1944 Soviet forces broke the almost 900-day siege of Leningrad. Exactly one year later the Red Army entered the gates of the Auschwitz death camp. The difficult question about ...