Diplomats and veterans from Russia and the U.S. have gathered for ceremonies in Moscow and Washington to mark the meeting of Soviet and American forces on the Elbe in eastern Germany in 1945. The ...

From Swansong 1945: A Collective Diary of the Last Days of the Third Reich, edited by Walter Kempowski, out this month from W. W. Norton. On April 25, 1945, Soviet and American troops met for the ...

The first two things dictators restrict are guns and information. Stalin was master of both in the Soviet Union. His paranoia forced the flow of information to his office but little trickled back out.

WASHINGTON, April 24. /TASS/. The Russian Ambassador to the US, Anatoly Antonov, diplomats from the Russian embassy, World War II veterans who fought on the Soviet Front , and representatives of CIS ...

An Infantryman’s memories Part Two - Enlisting in the Infantry - late 1944 - ‘Rhine’ Landings late March 1945 and onto the Elbe and Weser. Part Two of an oral history interview with Mr. Arthur Keech ...

In 404 B.C., the Peloponnesian War ended as Athens surrendered to Sparta. In 1507, a world map produced by German cartographer Martin Waldseemueller contained the first recorded use of the term ...