Soviet Army soldiers wave their hands as their last detachment crosses a bridge on the border between Afghanistan and then Soviet Uzbekistan near the Uzbek town of Termez in this Feb. 15, 1989, file ...

A Soviet Jew who, as a General of the Army, reportedly was the highest ranking Jewish military figure in the Soviet Union, died last Saturday at the age of 64, according to the Soviet Defense Ministry ...

Statues and memorials built to glorify and commemorate the Soviet Union and the Red Army have been torn down -- in one case illegally -- in several countries amid outrage at the Russian invasion of ...

Professor of History, Director of the Honors Program, Calvin University Gabe Polsky’s documentary Red Army opens with the film’s main subject – former NHL and Soviet hockey great Viacheslav (Slava) ...

It seems the Russian army is reactivating old tracked fighting vehicles. As in, really old. In late February, photos circulated on social media depicting BTR-50Ps on heavy military flatbed trucks ...

Lake Placid, 1980. The intimidating, indomitable and, frankly, incredible Soviet national hockey team was set to take the Olympic ice in a medal-round matchup against a puny, undermanned American ...

What is your history with Ukraine? I was born in Lviv, Ukraine and lived there until I left for the United States as a refuge in 1991. Lviv is a beautiful Eastern European city located in Western ...

The first mobile X-ray unit to be sent by American Jews to the Red Army in Russia as an expression of their support of the fight which the Soviet army is waging against the Nazis will be turned over ...

U.S. Army infantry platoons may one day be fighting with an Americanized version of the famous, Soviet RPG 7 anti-armor weapon. Army testers recently evaluated Airtronic USA Inc.'s RPG 7 as part of ...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Vladimir Putin has created a new directorate inside the Russian army to promote patriotism, evoking memories of a Soviet practice that once saw soldiers taught the precepts of ...