Days after Hiroshima, Stalin declared war on Japan. In Manchuria, the Red Army unleashed one of the fastest offensives in history, annihilating Japan’s Kwantung Army. This episode follows the Soviet ...
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How the Soviets blitzed Japan in WW2

In August 1945, the Soviet Union launched a massive and largely forgotten offensive into Japanese-occupied Manchuria. Known ...
From a crumbling pill box in the UK to a derelict rail line in Hawaii, these are the abandoned World War II places that the world forgot.
President Trump wants to return to the 19th century’s international order. He will leave America less prosperous—and the ...
This week, the conflict reached its 1,418th day, the same number of days the Soviet Union's Red Army fought against Nazi ...
The Yak-9 performed more anti-tank missions, in particular, the Yak-9T variant with a 37mm cannon, in this case the ...
Japan Defense Minister Shinjiro Koizumi called on “like-minded” Indo-Pacific nations to link defense and capability efforts ...
Vasily Ivanovich Chuikov, senior Soviet military commander whose career spanned the Russian Civil War, the interwar period, and the Second World War, played a significant role in the Soviet Union’s ...
Since the release of the U.S. 28-point draft peace plan in late November, many officials and observers have suggested that a ceasefire in Ukraine may be on the horizon. Undergirding this view is a ...
NANJING -- A memorial hall in eastern China on Wednesday said it has updated the information of the first group of 18 former Soviet Union airmen who sacrificed their lives to assist China in resisting ...
Sgt. Kenneth Nine was scheduled to ship back to the states that Monday morning. After partying until 5 a.m. on Dec. 7, 1941, the 27th Infantry platoon sergeant sat exhausted in front of Schofield ...
Lithuanian auteur Karolis Kaupinis discusses his new movie about the 1991 Soviet invasion of the Baltic country, which is currently screening at Tallinn. By Georg Szalai Global Business Editor Hunger ...