The Cold War was a conflict between the United States of America (and its allies) and the Soviet Union (and its allies). The conflict began in the mid-1940s, just after the end of the Second World War and ended in the early...
Read MoreWhile Alaska is widely known today as the largest state in the USA, it once part of Russia. For around a hundred years from the mid 18th century onwards, Alaska was a Russian colony but, after a handsome price was negotiated in...
Read MoreStalin was without doubt one of the most ruthless world leaders of the 20th Century, responsible for millions upon millions of deaths.
Read MoreIn August 1939, just weeks before Hitler invaded Poland, the Soviet Union and Japan fought the largest tank battle the world had ever seen. Under the then unknown General Georgy Zhukov, the Soviets won a crushing victory at the...
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