BBC5 年
Chilled – five great Russian winter pieces you’ve mostly never heard of
So, based on bitter experience, here are my top tips for surviving the Russian winter. You need a thick coat, lots of layers, a warm hat – and – most important of all – a pair of traditional ...
朝日新聞社4 年
Manga on Soviet women in WWII shocks industry, wows readers
Alexievich’s book recounts the experiences of hundreds of Soviet women who volunteered in World War II after a staggering number of male combatants were killed. The Japanese translation of the ...
BBC6 年
Cold War: How do Russia tensions compare to Soviet era?
Tensions have escalated following the expulsion of 60 Russian diplomats from the US It was a dramatic show of solidarity that has escalated long-standing tensions between Russia and the West.
RBTH1 个月
5 cult Soviet movies made during World War II
Leonid Lukov/The Tashkent Film Studio, 1943 The film tells the story of the friendship between two Soviet soldiers who participate in the defense of Leningrad. When production began, the country's ...
Cambridge University Press3 年
The Soviet Myth of World War II
Graziosi, Andrea 2024. Stalin and the Soviet theory of nationality and nationalism: Intellectual and political roots, implementation, and post-1991 legacies ...
BBC6 年
Soviet 1968 invasion: Czechs still feel Cold War shivers
The photo of 19-year-old Ivana is appropriate for 1968, when Soviet tanks roared into Czechoslovakia overnight, I thought. I wondered when it had been taken. "Oh it's nothing to do with the ...
The Diplomat4 年
Soviet Union in World War II
Despite efforts by Beijing and Moscow to align their official memories of the war for strategic ends, a large-scale analysis of state media coverage shows that any convergence is one-sided and ...
CNN1 个月
Kursk: Ukraine’s front inside Russia was the site of key Soviet World War II victory
Soviet leader Josef Stalin ordered Stalingrad defended at all costs and German advances during the late summer and fall of 1942 were pushed back during the winter ... the World War II museum ...
BuzzHint on MSN29 天
The PPSh-41: The Soviet Submachine Gun That Dominated WWII Battlefields
The PPSh-41 was designed during the late 1930s and went into Soviet service in 1941, at the outset of World War II. Its ...
BBC1 年
The Cold War
Post-WWII, tension between the USA and the Soviet Union led to a worldwide Cold War. Reasons for this included: ideological differences, problems in Germany, the arms race and the Korean War.
TASS5 年
Russian engineers to reconstruct WWII frontline bomber in global ground-breaking project
MOSCOW, August 15. /TASS/. Russian specialists will reconstruct a Soviet WWII Tu-2 frontline bomber in a unique operation unrivaled in the world, the press office of Russia’s Science and Higher ...
World War II History Haunts Attempts to Seize Russian Assets
BERLIN—The specter of World War II is haunting Western attempts to seize Russian assets and funnel them to Ukraine’s defense ...