Belarus’s events marking 80 years since the defeat of Nazi Germany were a show of state power—but also reflected real popular ...

Hadshinow is a professional engraver and a member of the Belleville Historical Society, which is building a monument in ...

Building upon the legacy of Stalinist falsifications of the history of the Second World War, the Putin regime falsely ...

A welter of events to vaunt a 'sacred feat of valour' included re-enactments of the iconic moment when Red Army soldiers planted a hammer-and-sickle flag high ... of Russia's historic role as ...

MOSCOW (AP) — Russia on Friday celebrated the 80th anniversary of the defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II, as President Vladimir Putin presided over a massive parade of tanks, missiles and troops ...

Victory Day, celebrated on May 9, is Russia’s most important secular holiday, reflecting its wartime sacrifice. But it’s also used by the Kremlin to bolster patriotism and regain the superpower ...

The Channel Islands, which is marking Liberation Day on Friday and Saturday, were the only part of the British Isles to be occupied by the Germans during World War Two. From 1940-1945 Germans set up ...

The museum was once the officers’ casino of the Wehrmacht, or Nazi armed ... and incomprehensible that the Ukrainian flag flies instead of the Russian one,” one message reads.

On June 22, 1941, the Wehrmacht, at the time in control ... his coffin was wrapped in the national flags of three different countries: India, Indonesia (whose Independence effort he had aided), and ...

An Ukrainian flag flies on April 17, 2025 in front of the Museum Berlin- Karlshorst, the site where on the night of May 8-9, 1945, the supreme commanders of the Wehrmacht signed the unconditional ...

In addition, some 20 million Soviet civilians perished in the course of Hitler’s crazed and fatal invasion of Russia in June ... he might rant and rail, the Wehrmacht had lost its only chance ...

Red Army soldiers hoist the Soviet flag ... Russia, China and the US—in the battle for the violent redivision of the world. Eighty years after the capitulation of Hitler’s Wehrmacht (Army ...