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Russia has celebrated the 80th anniversary of the defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II, with President Vladimir Putin ...
Cities from London to Moscow will be awash with parades, flyovers and memorials this week as the world marks the 80th ...
A huge parade in the Russian capital to celebrate the Soviet victory over Nazi Germany in World War II, attended by leaders ...
The upcoming film, based on a book from Pulitzer Prize-winning author David E. Hoffman, stars Russell Crowe, Tony Goldwyn, ...
However, the Soviet Union recognizes its Victory Day on May 9 after having a second set of surrender documents signed by German Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel on May 8, 1945. Fighting in the Pacific ...
Invading the Soviet Union was “probably not Hitler’s best ... Italy where British Field Marshal Harold Alexander accepted the surrender of German and Italian forces in Italy and western ...
May 2: Soviet forces complete their conquest of Berlin as the last defenders surrender. — May 4: British Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery accepts the surrender of German forces in northwestern ...
"My dad was shot down over the Soviet Union," Gary says. "As a kid I thought it was normal, everybody's dad goes through this." In the thick of the Cold War, an American spy plane flew over ...
Germany’s invasion of Poland in 1939 and of the Soviet Union in 1941 set off mass migrations of Polish Jews eastward. Precise figures are hard to come by, but hundreds of thousands of Polish ...
As we approach a major anniversary – 80 years since the defeat of fascism – a strange silence hangs over my country, ...