On May 9, 1945, the Soviet Union celebrated Victory Day, marking the official end of World War II in Europe. This date ...

Nazi collaborators who fled to Western countries after the end of World War II became ... the Soviet Union. They became the main agents in anti-Soviet (and later - anti-Russian) propaganda.

This collection reveals some of the pressures on the BBC as it sought to balance the wartime need for propaganda with unrestricted reporting of the news.

Efremova, now 101, was a teenager when Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union in June 1941. She ended up serving as a nurse in field hospitals on the front and remembers the horrors of the fighting ...