World War Two began with Germany's invasion of Poland ... Hitler also ordered an attack on the Soviet Union. Four weeks after the invasion of Poland, Warsaw surrendered. The Nazis celebrated ...

Auschwitz was the largest of the extermination camps and has become a symbol of Nazi Germany’s genocide ... the war and the subsequent Soviet invasion of Poland, are taboo – either downplayed ...

After agreeing with Nazi Germany to invade and carve up Poland in September 1939, the Kremlin organised several rounds of mass deportations of Poles to remote parts of the Soviet Union ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin is copying Soviet-era approaches that bankrupted the USSR and that he used to criticize, according to ... to his invasion of Ukraine. "The Soviet Union took ...

the Soviet Union, Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland and Romania. They also made a similar commitment to defend each other. Historians have to evaluate the evidence ...

A group of child survivors behind a barbed wire fence at the Nazi concentration camp at Auschwitz It was 80 years ago that Soviet troops ... in southern Poland. Nazi Germany invaded and occupied ...

The flow of electricity between the Baltic countries of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania and Russia has been officially severed ...