Not possessing a vast armada of four engined heavy bombers with which to hit cities like Berlin, the Soviet story ... This is the story of Stalin’s dramatic 1941 bombing campaign against the ...

Stalin was so enraged that he had Yakov’s ... In 1945, U.S. and British intelligence teams found in Berlin the German dossier on Yakov, which consists of a letter by SS Commander Heinrich ...

Stalin instituted the Great Purge in the 1930s ... I knew someone who lived in Berlin and escaped to London from the Nazis. He became a communist and after the war returned to help build a ...

July 25: A C-47 crashes into an apartment in Berlin; two people die. July 27: The Soviets threaten to fly into the three Allied air corridors. August 2: Western representatives meet with Stalin ...

U.S. bombers flying from Britain began the first daytime attacks on Berlin. In 1953, Georgi Malenkov was named premier of the Soviet Union one day after the death of Joseph Stalin. In 1957 ...

when he shot himself in his Berlin bunker as Allied troops stormed the German capital towards the end of World War II. Stalin, who led the Soviet Union from 1924 until his death in 1953 ...

The blockade of Berlin was the first serious crisis of the ... an American-Western European military alliance. In May 1949, Stalin had little choice but to lift the blockade.

The Soviet Army begins the long push back into Germany and all the way to Berlin. Stalin plays a decisive role in Germany’s defeat and great swathes of Eastern Europe are occupied by Soviet ...

One of the strangest VE Day facts is that the former Princess Elizabeth was partying with everyone else in London. She wore ...

In response, Stalin blocked all land borders into West Berlin. This stopped food, medicine and supplies being transported into western zones by road, railway or canal. Some historians believe that ...