Before the Kilo-class and Oscar-class Submarines, the Shchuka-class was the Soviet Workhorse: During the Cold War, the Soviet Navy maintained the largest fleet of submarines in the world with as many ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. polikarpov Despite being the world’s largest air force, the Soviet Air Force (Voenno-Vozdushnye Sily or VVS) was caught on the ...

The defeat of Nazi Germany secured Soviet survival but not relief from fear, repression, or sacrifice. This documentary ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin has declared Victory Day the most important holiday for most former Soviet republics, stressing that the defeat of Nazism is a shared legacy. In his speech, Putin ...

WASHINGTON, May 9. /TASS/. There is no doubt that the Soviet Union turned the tide of World War II, said Frank Cohn, a US veteran who took part in the meeting of the Soviet and US troops at the Elbe ...

The film recounts the story of the outgunned and outmanned Panfilov rifle division, which was defending Moscow's western front. In a controversial new Russian film, 28 Soviet soldiers facing sure ...

TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — In a musty basement hall of an unassuming building nestled among modern high-rises in the heart of Tel Aviv, a few hundred spectators are kindly requested to turn off their ...

MOSCOW, April 28. /TASS/. Russia values the memory of how allies supported the Soviet people in the war to defeat Nazism as much as it treasures the memory of the fallen Soviet soldiers, Kremlin Aide ...

On May 22, 2020, a post by X user @Dr_TheHistories claimed to show the same Soviet soldier before and after serving in World War II. The post consisted of two photos stitched together into one image, ...