“Soviets are the officials,” Ms. Massie told ... aid to Afghan militias fighting a Soviet occupation, and the White House was still demanding answers from Moscow over the downing of a Korean ...

The Soviets destroyed the synagogue in Viipuri ... Another childhood memory from Turku involves house guests who were Holocaust survivors looking for their families. “I remember that there ...

Brodsky’s fascination with Venice was colored by his childhood in St. Petersburg (then named Leningrad), another ... in 1972, the Soviets booted him from the country with little more than ...

In the end, a Peace Treaty was agreed which saw the end of the invasion, although Finland gave up 9 per cent of its land as the Soviets were desperate to protect nearby Leningrad ... the couple moved ...

The acclaimed Ukrainian author and essayist talks about his experience as a Soviet-born, Russian-speaking novelist, the ...

In 1944, the Soviet army lifted the Siege of Leningrad, a more than 2-year occupation of the Russian city by Nazi forces in which more than 1 million civilians died or went missing. In 1945 ...

When the Soviets entered the camp, however, much of the physical evidence remained. “When they arrived at the barracks where the bags full of hair were stored, they understood that these were ...

Today is a special day. Eighty-one years ago, on January 27, 1944, the most terrible blockade in the history of mankind – the siege of Leningrad (modern-day St Petersburg) – ended. Its ...

The gate reading in German "Arbeit Macht Frei" meaning, "Work Makes You Free" is seen near the entrance to the former German Nazi Concentration Camp Auschwitz I in Oswiecim, Poland. On January 27 ...

Eighty years ago on January 27, 1945, soldiers from Russia's Red Army entered the gates of Auschwitz-Birkenau in Poland and were the first to discover the horrors of the concentration camp where more ...