Germany’s invasion of Poland in 1939 and of the Soviet Union in 1941 set off mass migrations of Polish Jews eastward. Precise figures are hard to come by, but hundreds of thousands of Polish ...

Photos of the French Alps, Utah, the Maldives, Quebec, Australia and Argentina show the naturally occurring letters.

Here's the standard high school history class summary of the Soviet Union: The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) was a communist state from 1922 to 1991 and was a big rival of the US from ...

During the Cold War, many radical new designs in submarines were crafted by both the United States and their rivals in the Soviet Union. In some respects, however, the Soviet Red Navy had the more ...

a pioneering Soviet engineer who kick-started Soviet Union's early space adventure. The Russian leader was speaking to university students about the country's space policy when he mentioned the ...

Following the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, the CIA acquired a 250-page KGB report recounting the events that transpired after a platoon fired at a flying saucer over Ukraine. The report ...

Two decades ago, Russian American anthropologist Alexei Yurchak coined the term “hypernormalisation” to describe the absurd and surreal reality of the Soviet Union during its final two decades.

Lest the headline scandalizes you, this is not an apology for the Soviet Union or its centrally (and badly) planned economy and gulags. So please indulge me. The world, rather two of the most ...

After a stint as co-chair of Chicago Action for Soviet Jewry from 1978 until 1986, she became the national president of the Union of Councils for Soviet Jews (UCSJ), the main ‘non-establishment’ group ...

The CIA obtained a 250-page KGB report on the incident after the Soviet Union's collapse in 1991, which includes eyewitness accounts and disturbing images of the aftermath, The New York Post reported.

Years And the first ever Lego convention at the Winston-Salem Fairgrounds wrapped up today. Photojournalist Jacob Sapp shares the sight, sound, and excitement of Lego fanatics here in the triad.

MOSCOW - Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday praised Elon Musk, comparing him to Sergei Korolev, the chief engineer behind the Soviet Union's space success in the 1950s and 1960s ...