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 ...

During the Cold War, many radical new designs in submarines were crafted by both the United States and their rivals in the Soviet Union. In some respects, however, the Soviet Red Navy had the more ...

a pioneering Soviet engineer who kick-started Soviet Union's early space adventure. The Russian leader was speaking to university students about the country's space policy when he mentioned the ...

Russian American anthropologist Alexei Yurchak coined the term “hypernormalisation” to describe the absurd and surreal reality of the Soviet Union during its final two decades. In that era ...

“She said she was lieutenant colonel in the GRU,” Perlowin, now 74, told The Times, referring to the Soviet Union’s military intelligence agency. He said she also claimed to be the daughter ...

In the Soviet Union, this control was not limited to symbolic gestures – it reshaped the entire academic system. Under Josef Stalin, academic survival depended less on scholarly merit than on ...

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Keywords Eastern Europe, Soviet Union, communism, Warsaw Pact, liberalization, nationalism, Cold War, reform, peaceful coexistence, Iron Curtain Vatican reveals official cause of death of Pope ...

The Baltic States of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, which had been independent between the two world wars, were annexed by the Kremlin in June of 1940, during the dramatic days when Paris fell to the ...

“It’s what guarantees that the officer who beats you will get away with it. Maybe a lack of a union can result in more transparency here.” The Marshall Project previously reported on how a warden ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday praised Elon Musk, comparing him to Sergei Korolev, the chief engineer behind the Soviet Union's space success in the 1950s and 1960s, state news ...