According to Russian educators and state-controlled media, the Soviet Union defeated Nazi Germany single-handedly.

This month, May 8, marks V-E Day. For those veteran readers of this column, you may recognize that acronym, for the younger readers, perhaps not. It was, though, for millions of people, one of the ...

Follow minute by minute details of Britain's VE Day celebrations on May 8, 1945 as the nation celebrated victory over Nazi ...

Tomorrow, in Red Square, Vladimir Putin would do well to remember the thoughts of a great Russian, Aleksandr Pushkin: "Respect for the past: this distinguishes culture from barbarism." But it ...

One of the most important incidents of World War I took place on May 7, 1915, when the British ocean liner, RMS Lusitania, ...

By the time you read this the annual Russian victory parade may have taken place in Moscow. It is now eighty years since the ...

Express rejoices to announce the death of Hitler, proclaimed our page one of May 2, 1945. Peter Caddick-Adams examines the ...

In the 80 years since the Victory, the country has always widely celebrated the anniversaries of the most national historical ...

Then, on April 16, led by Marshals Zhukov, Rokossovsky and Konev ... yielding at Eisenhower’s command post in Rheims. However, Stalin wanted his own surrender moment and insisted on an identical ...