Roza Shanina was a 20-year-old girl, having worked in a kindergarten to make ends meet and support herself through school. When the Nazis invaded the Soviet Union, leading to her brothers' deaths, she ...

Eighty years after Winston Churchill's 'Iron Curtain' speech, its warning against totalitarianism resonates amid modern ...

Full text also available online. Shipping list no.: 2009-0036-S. Volume 1: 1945-1955 -- Foreword -- Preface -- Executive summary -- Chapter 1: American And Soviet Strategy: A Comparison -- A: Factors ...

A U.S. diplomat’s warning about the Soviet Union’s grand strategy helped produce the strategy of containment that won the Cold War.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Maria Limanskaya directing traffic at the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin in 1945 - Evgeny Khaldey Maria Limanskaya, who has died aged ...

As World War II drew to a close, millions of Russians and other Soviet citizens found themselves outside the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. Some were prisoners of war, others civilian forced ...

British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt, and Soviet leader Josef Stalin at the Yalta Conference, Feb. 9, 1945. Credit: UK National Archives Eight decadess ago, on ...