Beyrle was given a Soviet uniform and a submachine gun ... There, he was visited by the famed Soviet Marshal Georgi Zhukov. Through an interpreter, Beyrle told Zhukov all about how he ended ...

The Soviet Union was plunged into a power struggle among Stalin’s inner circle following the demise of the man who had led the USSR for nearly three decades. Khrushchev, emerging as a key player ...

The Soviet Union detonated its first atomic bomb, known in the West as Joe-1, on Aug. 29, 1949, at Semipalatinsk Test Site, in Kazakhstan. The Soviets called their first atomic test "First Lightning." ...

MOSCOW, December 8. /TASS/. Last Soviet Defense Minister Aviation Marshal Yevgeny Shaposhnikov has died aged 78, Head of the Office of Commanders’ Club Nikolai Deryabin told TASS on Tuesday.

The decision by the authorities of the Prague 6 municipal district to take down and transfer the monument to Soviet Marshal ... move the monument to Marshal of the Soviet Union Ivan Konev, who ...

After the shock of Stalin’s death in 1953, a sense of hope enveloped the Soviet Union, bringing a desire for more civil liberties and an end to fear. Nikita Khrushchev emerged as the new ...