Lend-Lease transit, arctic convoys, and tea in Crimea. We will always remember that during World War II South Africa was our ally and an important member of the Anti-Hitler Coalition.

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 ...

London’s Grade II-listed Barbican is a brutalist gem, originally built between 1971 and 1982 as an example of modern urban architecture in an area that was heavily bombed during the Second World War. ...

“No Soviet or Russian war since World War II has even come close to Ukraine in terms of fatality rate,” the study said. Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If ...

After a nearly six-decade absence, the face of Joseph Stalin, the Soviet dictator who was not known for sparing lives to achieve his goals, is once again greeting commuters in one of Moscow’s ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin’s conditions for ending the war in Ukraine include a demand that Western leaders pledge in writing to stop enlarging NATO eastwards, according to reports.

A woman whose family were captured by the Soviet Army just 24 hours after VE Day has written a book about their escape. Ute Smeed, 83, from Bridgwater, grew up in Silesia. It was historically part ...

In some ways, Russia finds itself in a situation similar to the U.S. after World War II or Nazi Germany before the war—when their arms industries were the drivers of growth.

The delegations of the Republic of Belarus and the Russian Federation to the OSCE have adopted a statement on the 84th anniversary of the beginning of the Great Patriotic War. The statement was ...

As the Trump administration cracks down on immigrants and hikes tariffs on Mexican imports, largely in the name of fighting ...

After the end of World War II, Soviet leader Joseph Stalin viewed returning veterans as a threat and sent many to the gulags to rid himself of the domestic pressures they could cause.