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 ...

All week long, Soviet Ambassador Mikhail A. Menshikov shuttled back and forth between his embassy on Washington's 16th Street and conferences at the State Department over Nikita ...

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The plot of "Red October" is about Sean Connery's character, Marko Ramius — a Soviet submarine captain — disapproving of the direction the USSR was headed, so he steals the Soviet navy's most ...