A group of 10 to 15 year old boys from the Young Pioneer Organization of the Soviet Union arrived at the US embassy carrying a hand carved great seal of the United States of America. They ...

Leonid Brezhnev led the former Soviet Union as General Secretary of the Communist Party until 1982. But like most Russian apparatchiks who excessively smoked, drank and gained weight, he aged ...

Strange relationships are formed by war, not least that of the USSR and Great Britain in World War Two. The invasion of Russia by Nazi Germany in 1941 shattered their formerly expedient pact and ...

It was with Leonid Brezhnev’s coming to power in 1964 (he served as General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union till 1982) that the focus shifted to the many, vast regions of the ...

Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) published for the first time a testimony by a Wehrmacht general about Nazi Germany’s wide-spread war crimes on the territory of the Soviet Union.

Castro's courtship of the Soviet Union began shortly after the revolution ... That October he traveled to New York to address the U.N. General Assembly, demanding an international redistribution ...

The Soviet Union was plunged into a power struggle among ... The following autumn, Khrushchev made headlines again at the United Nations General Assembly, delivering one of the most infamous ...