The fact that troops from the Soviet Union captured Berlin on May 2, 1945, and planted the Soviet flag on the roof of the ...

In April 1983, 10-year-old Samantha Smith received an invite behind the Iron Curtain from Soviet leader Yuri Andropov after ...

Hitler's betrayal of his ally cost the lives of 29 million Russians... but the Eastern Front broke Germany's armies and ...

During the Cold War, the Soviet Union developed plans for a nuclear-powered land train designed to traverse the Arctic tundra ...

The Soviet bomber fleet grew to over 2,000 airframes, starting with piston-engine planes and then evolving to jet-powered ...

Overall, the US sent the Soviet Union $11.3 billion (equivalent to $180 billion in today’s rates) in Lend Lease assistance. Installment repayment for the assistance stalled during the Cold War, ...

As Germany marks 80 years since the end of World War II, one historic Berlin site is grappling with how to commemorate the ...

A Cold War-era spacecraft will come crashing down to Earth this weekend… but nobody quite knows where. The Soviet Union’s “Kosmos 482” probe launched in 1972, bound for Venus, but suffered ...

The Space Age past may come knocking on the world's door next week as the defunct Soviet Union's Kosmos 482 Venus ... As part of the Cold War between the USSR and the United States, the Soviets ...

Half of Europe was now at the mercy of the Soviet Union – and the dictator was ... The chill winds of the Cold War were already blowing with grim inevitability. Jonathan Dimbleby is the author ...