The Russian Federation may share the fate of the USSR and collapse, as not all nations joined it voluntarily, according to ...

Was Stalin truly caught off guard by Hitler’s invasion? This episode explores the case for “yes, he expected it.” From vast ...

The dictators of Belarus and Russia, Alexander Lukashenko and Vladimir Putin, as well as the leaders of Armenia, Azerbaijan, ...

At the age of 86, Viktor Shustikov, the "Torpedo" and the USSR national team, passed away after a long illness. This was announced on October 23 by the team's press service on the website."Viktor ...

Unfortunately, the only people who had some guarantees in the USSR were Communists Party members and their collaborators. For ...

With its brutality, technological accomplishments and rigid ideology, the Soviet Union loomed over the world like an immortal colossus. It led humankind into outer space, exploded the most powerful ...

Thirty years ago, one of the most historic DIY projects of all time took place. Berliners took apart the wall that had cut their city in half. Thus began the beginning of the end of the Cold War. It ...

The Soviet Union disappeared from the map more than two decades ago. But online an 'e-vil empire' is thriving. Security experts say the .su Internet suffix assigned to the USSR in 1990 has turned into ...

Khomenko, Troshkin/Sputnik Moscow would have faced tremendous trouble had Tokyo launched an attack and opened a front in the East in 1941. However, after its full-scale military defeat in 1939, Japan ...

At the height of the Cold War, the Soviet Union and the United States found themselves locked in a chilling race to nuke the moon, declassified military documents reveal. Following the end of the ...

Getty Images Despite the fact that the Soviet Union never threatened neutral Sweden, thousands of Swedes headed eastwards to take on the Red Army. In the course of the Second World War, Sweden - which ...

In a series of polls conducted at various points over the past 25 years, the Levada Center has asked Russians about their nostalgia for the Soviet state and the reasons for its breakup. In the most ...