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 ...

The Death of Stalin is a dark comedy that explores the power struggles of the remaining leaders of the Soviet Union in the events leading up to and following Stalin's death - and it won't be on Netfli ...

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 April 1945 the Russians reached Berlin. Stalin ordered generals Zhukov and Ivan Koniev to take the city. In Berlin, Adolf Hitler decided to stand, believing the illusion that, “the Russian wo ...

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

Writer-director Armando Iannucci grapples with these questions in his excellent second feature, The Death of Stalin, based on ...

The Death of Stalin, released in 2017 ... cast is led by Jason Isaacs of The White Lotus fame, starring as Georgy Zhukov, a top commander and Soviet marshal during World War Two.