Marshal Zhukov, decorated Soviet commander, risked Stalin's wrath for his Coca-Cola addiction. The solution? A clear version ...

Put yourself in his position. You’ve just led a 6.5-million-man army across half a continent, ending four years of brutal war ...

At the dawn of the 1950s, as atheistic communism was seeping into the West from the Soviet Union and as godless secularism and hedonism were on the rise in America, achieving the disastrous watershed ...

While writer and activist Zabel Yesayan had been relegated to obscurity for decades after her disappearance under murky ...

A junior American officer handed the Soviet general a glass bottle containing a dark fluid. He politely took a sip — and was ...

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It’s reminiscent of the left's complicity in Stalin's terror in the 1930s, whitewashed to shield the broader communist cause.

In the 1930s, with the black clouds of war gathering over the skies of Europe once more, the Soviet Union under Josef Stalin ...

From a Georgian seminary student to the ruthless leader of the Soviet Union, Joseph Stalin reshaped the 20th century. This ...

Former Cyprus President George Vassiliou, who died on Wednesday aged 94, once risked arrest in Cold War Hungary smuggling a ...

George Orwell's crusade against the misuse of language resulted in his name becoming an adjective—and his writing becoming ...

Discover a few interesting things you might not know about Victory in Europe Day, May 8, 1945—from royal princesses in conga lines to Stalin's demanding a second Nazi surrender.