In the dying days of the Reich, 350 French SS soldiers of the Charlemagne Division held their ground in Berlin’s burning ...

In the final Soviet drive in Berlin in April 1945, the Red Army massed nearly 10,000 howitzers, ... Russia has fielded a menagerie of Soviet-era and post-Soviet artillery in Ukraine.

In the final Soviet drive in Berlin in April 1945, the Red Army massed nearly 10,000 howitzers, ... Russia has fielded a menagerie of Soviet-era and post-Soviet artillery in Ukraine.

The action in memory of the Soviet soldiers who fell during the capture of Berlin in 1945 took place on the territory of the memorial complex in the Berlin district of Pankow, where the remains of ...

To this day, Soviet tanks stand in the German capital. They were used at the end of World War II in the 1945 Battle of Berlin. Ever since, they have stood as a symbol of the Soviet Union's victory ...

WIESBADEN, Germany -- On June 24, 1948, with the Cold War in its early stages, the Soviet Union blocked access for all supplies going into portions of West Berlin. This cut roughly 2 million ...

Berlin, Germany, February 1, 1954: Watched closely by a guard, Stars and Stripes news editor Harold McConnell checks out a statue of Joseph Stalin at the Soviet embassy in Berlin.

A discotheque in Berlin founded by Soviet Jews finds new life Some 200,000 Jewish refugees came to Germany after the fall of the USSR, and brought cultural traditions — like partying hard during ...

Following the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, over 170,000 Soviet Jews emigrated to Germany, more than doubling the size of Germany's Jewish community.