The Red Army's attack on Poland was in line with the Soviet-German Treaty of August 23, 1939, referred to as the Ribbentrop-Molotov pact (see: NOTE) which effectively partitioned Poland between the ...

Vladimir Putin has long peddled a narrative of World War II that whitewashes Soviet complicity in the outset of hostilities in Europe. To justify Russian aggression today, he wholly ignores Moscow’s ...

MOSCOW, May 17. /TASS/. The Kremlin considers comparisons between the USSR and Nazi Germany atrocious and urges not to engage in empty concerns over the bill that bans such equalization, spokesman ...

While Poland fought Nazi Germany in the west, the Soviet Union invaded from the east under the shadow of the ...

Lithuanian Foreign Minister Kęstutis Budrys has said that the Soviet Union's impunity, and that of its successor state Russia, for the occupation of the Baltic states in the 1940s is one of the ...

Sikorski said the plan to pipe gas under the Baltic Sea would cost $6 billion more than the overland route through Eastern Europe and was designed to enable Moscow to cut off supplies to Poland and ...

Russian authorities released Ruslan Akhmetshin, a former associate of jailed Russian opposition politician Aleksei Navalny, from a penal colony in the northwestern Arkhangelsk region on December 15 at ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: Aside from these two postwar conflicts, the Molotov Cocktail, or variants thereof, have been used in conflicts and demonstrations in Asia, Latin America, the Middle ...