On November 22, 1941, the first lorries carrying foodstuffs drove to Leningrad across the ice of Lake Ladoga. The name the Road of Life given by Leningrad residents to the ice road across Lake Ladoga is not a poetic symb...

Under the Third Reich’s plans, the Baltic region was supposed to become part of the German Reichskommissariat Ostland (RKO). The population was to be partially exterminated, moved to the east, or “Germanised....

Residents of liberated Sofia greeting Red Army soldiers. 09.09.1944 © Sputnik In the autumn of 1944, 75 years ago, the Red Army reached the borders of the German Reich; cities such as Minsk, Vilnius, and Brest h...

As Russians celebrate Victory Day, George Galloway argues for a return to the spirit that won the war. On May 9, 1945, Hitler's fascism was finally crushed amongst the rubble of Berlin and the "thousand-year Reich" came...

Legislating to establish an ‘official’ view of history is seldom a good idea. History is a matter of living debate, study and interpretation, not written in the wooden language of the solemn edict, which only...

Operation Bagration was the D-Day of the Eastern Front. In scope, size, scale and impact, it was a remarkable feat of arms unmatched in WWII. Crucially, Overlord (D-Day) and Bagration were planned and undertaken as part...

“There are so many young women who want to become military pilots. We receive hundreds of letters [from them],” Shoigu told journalists. Therefore, we decided that this year we’ll recruit the first grou...

The speaker of the Upper House of the Russian Parliament, Valentina Matviyenko, shared those plans with UN Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres, during the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF). Russian MPs...

In the autumn of 1944, 75 years ago, the Red Army reached the borders of the German Reich; cities such as Minsk, Vilnius, and Brest having been liberated in July as Soviet forces swept West. Today, the Russian Federation...

Exactly 80 years ago, in the early hours of August 24, 1939, Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union signed a nonaggression pact in Moscow. The news came as a bolt fromthe blue. Thousands of Soviet people wrote letters to cent...

Having US and former Axis leaders attend the 80th anniversary of WWII, but not inviting Russia, shows the event in Poland has nothing to do with paying respects to history, and everything to do with present-day politics....

Commemorations of the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Warsaw by the Soviet army from Nazi occupation in WWII were supposed to bring people together. Instead, they are driving Poland and Russia apart in a new war of...

A hit piece in The National Interest accuses the WW2-era KV series Soviet heavy tanks of failing to stop the 1941 Nazi invasion. But apart from factual flaws, the article fails to take a broader look at the tank’s...

Over his long life, Aleksey Botyan was many things. He was born in 1917, just as the Russian Empire was collapsing and shattering into pieces. His family lived in the territory that became part of Poland in the 1920s. Fi...