Soviet penal units made up of disgraced soldiers, political prisoners, and others the Red Army deemed expendable. In this video, we uncover what life was like in these front-line punishment battalions ...

In July 1944, the Red Army’s Operation Bagration shattered the German Eastern Front, wiping out Army Group Center and opening a massive breach. As Soviet forces surged toward Latvia, the town of ...

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A pensioner who came to the monument wearing a Soviet cap was detained for a small red star on her headdress—one of many Soviet symbols that have been banned by the reactionary ...

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While the Browning .50-cal. M2 machine gun has been unequaled for nearly a century, John Moses Browning’s genius design has had one significant 12.7 mm competitor: the Soviet DShK.

1 A building undergoes reconstruction in the city known today as Donetsk, soon after the Soviet Red Army recaptured the Donbas region from Nazi-led forces during World War II. Donetsk was known as ...