In the freezing winter of 1939, the Soviet Union launched an invasion of Finland, expecting an easy victory. Instead, they ...

The US discourse—which places an excessive emphasis on the Normandy Landings of 1944—also highlights the Pacific Theatre of the war in which Japan was the main Axis Enemy of the Allies. Since 1945, a ...

The Soviet Army, with its enormous size and power, was the largest and most formidable military force in history. Between ...

Paul Thomas Chamberlin’s book, Scorched Earth, recasts the conflict as a brutal struggle for survival among declining and ...

Country of origin: Soviet Union The Yakovlev Yak-9 stood out as the fighter aircraft with the highest production in the Soviet Union during WWII, with an estimated 16,769 units manufactured.

During WWII, Soviet Union would not hold gains in Poland for long, ... which followed the Nazi invasion 16 days prior which is widely credited as kicking off World War II, ...

Ukraine and Poland's parliaments have approved a resolution, considering moves by both the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany as the reason for the start of World War II.

The Lost Songs of World War II was released by Six Degrees Records in February 2018. Anna Shternshis, Toronto University ... the then-epicenter of Jewish life in the Soviet Union. ...

While the Soviet Union ultimately lost the Cold War, the "Great Patriotic War," as World War II is known in Russia, would become a national founding myth for the new Russian Federation.

1. When Germany invaded the Soviet Union in June 1941, a small group of young Belorussians fled to the forests. As the invading Nazis and their local collaborators murdered more than 800,000 ...