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.

The Soviet Union lost 27 million people in World War II, including many millions in Ukraine, but pushed Nazi forces back to Berlin, where Hitler committed suicide and the red Soviet Victory Banner ...

Tell us about the conceptual aspects of Ukraine in World War II. I’d like to start this part of the conversation with the words of American journalist Edgar Snow, who wrote for the Saturday Evening ...

A memorial hall in East China has updated information on the first group of 18 Soviet Union airmen who sacrificed their lives to assist China in resisting Japanese aggression during World War II.

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 ...

The Soviet sacrifice of World War II The Soviet Union lost a staggering 27 million people in what it calls the Great Patriotic War from 1941-45. That sacrifice left a deep scar in the national psyche.

Putin cherry-picks from Russian history, combining homage to Soviet sacrifice in the “Great Patriotic War,” as World War II is known in Russia, with the reactionary ideas of exiled tsarist White ...

The film "The Changing Face of Eastern Europe" explores the evolution of Eastern European nations under Soviet influence post-World War II. It details the transition from strict Soviet control to ...

A submarine that sunk during World War II has been discovered off the Pacific Coast, Russia's Pacific Fleet said Monday. The Malyutka-class submarine went missing during the war in the Peter the ...

During World War II, the U.S. shipped about a quarter of its eggs to Allied nations in powdered form — but they were far from popular. Here’s what Brits did with the ‘hard, yellowish’ stuff.

10. Fires on the Plain (1959) Daiei Film. Set in the final days of World War II, Fires on the Plain tells the story of a tubercular Japanese soldier who, after being dismissed from his unit and ...

Trump's remarks on World War II are “a topic on which, perhaps, one can disagree with Mr. President (Trump), with all due respect,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told journalists in Moscow.