Municipal workers dismantle a monument to Soviet military leader Mykola Shchors in Kyiv, Ukraine, Saturday, Dec. 9, 2023. Shchors was a Ukrainian communist who fought with the Soviet army against ...

During the Cold War, the Soviet military undertook a secret mapping program that’s only recently come to light in the West. Military cartographers created hundreds of thousands of maps and ...

The Soviet Communist Party’s decision to abolish political education is one of the key factors that led to its collapse,” said Jiang Tiejun, a Chinese military theorist with the Academy of ...

Compared to contemporaries like the American F-4 Phantom II, the MiG-21 was less complex and far cheaper to produce—but could hold its own against the more sophisticated American jet.

The US military historian David Glantz, a leading Western Red Army scholar, has estimated that had the West not helped the Soviet Union it still would have won, but the war would have lasted 18-24 ...

"I would say that very few people in Russia really want to restore the Soviet Union," he said. Cars fly tsarist, Soviet, and Russian flags in Syevyerodonetsk, in Ukraine's Luhansk region in May 2023.