A Look Into The Extreme Conditions Prisoners Endured In Soviet Gulags
The Gulag prison system was the Soviet Union’s way of dealing with political dissidents and those they felt were harmful to the Communist regime. While…
Ilyushin Il-2: The T-34 Of The Skies
By the end of WW2, the Soviet Union had mastered the art of mass-production, producing 80,000 T-34s, the second most produced tank ever, and 42,000…
Operation Monopoly: When the US Tunneled Under The Soviet Embassy
The U.S. and U.S.S.R. were no strangers to spying on each other, as they had been playing a cat-and-mouse game of espionage since the beginning…
Amazing Drone Footage Of Abandoned WWII & Soviet Airbase! (Watch)
Take a look at this great drone footage of the Sperenberg Airfield. The military complex, constructed originally for the Prussian Army, was adapted for rocket…
Brilliant Drone Footage Of Stalingrad Battle Reenactment (Watch)
Operation Winter Storm was certainly one of the most important events that took place during the bloody battle of Stalingrad. The city that represented the…
Nikita Krushchev’s Son Still Missing in Action from World War II
Former Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev’s son is still considered missing in action. A former chief of the Russian Defense Ministry’s Directorate for the Memorialization of…
Why were the Atomic Bombs dropped on Japan?
With President Obama’s recent visit to Hiroshima, the question is raised again: why did the U.S. drop the atomic bomb? Was it necessary to convince…
The Food Fight That Almost Started World War III – The Berlin Airlift
June 25, 1948, the Soviet Union, flush with the success of driving the Nazis out of Russia, was becoming piqued at the US and British.…
Poland Removing WWII Soviet Victory Monuments
The Poles have been removing memorials thanking the Soviet Union for liberating Poland from the Nazis, which were erected around the country after World War…