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The voices of tens of thousands of choir singers rang out in the rain in Estonia this weekend, and a huge crowd of spectators erupted in applause, unfazed by the gloomy weather.

More than seventy years later no peace treaty has been signed and Korea remains bitterly divided between communism and capitalism with the most heavily militarized border the world has ever seen ...

The Soviet Union’s Kiev-class “heavy aviation cruisers” were ambitious but ultimately flawed warships of the Cold War. Functioning as hybrids between a guided-missile cruiser and an aircraft carrier, ...

MOSCOW, July 9. /TASS/. Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova was appalled at how the German embassy in Moscow posted maps of the post-war Europe with a distorted Soviet flag on its ...

MOSCOW, July 9. /TASS/. The German embassy in Russia has issued apologies for posting a map with a wrong flag of the Soviet Union on social media.

State-led attacks on Russia’s LGBTQ+ community intensified dramatically following the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in ...

With its brutality, technological accomplishments and rigid ideology, the Soviet Union loomed over the world like an immortal colossus. It led humankind into outer space, exploded the most ...

COMRADE VLAD Putin’s mad push to revive Soviet Union with Stalin statues & Red Army cosplay – as aide insists USSR ‘NEVER broke up’ ...

THE SOVIET Union was a brutal regime fronted by dangerous, power-hungry madmen who ruled with a vice-like grip. Sound familiar? Vladimir Putin has never been coy about his Soviet nostalgia – … ...

Vladimir Putin’s troops were accused of breaking a three-day ceasefire called to coincide with the 80th anniversary of the Soviet Union’s victory over Nazi Germany in World War Two on Friday.