The name Jumpseat was first revealed in a 1986 book by the investigative journalist Seymour Hersh on the Soviet Union’s 1983 ...

This week, the Kremlin hit a grim milestone in its ongoing war in Ukraine. On January 11, 2026, the conflict reached its 1,418th day, the same number of days the Soviet Union's Red Army fought against ...

In 2025, American and world leaders were preoccupied with wars in the Middle East. Most dramatically, first Israel and the United States bombed Iran’s nuclear facilities. Some commentators feared that ...

During December 2025, the Editorial Board of the New York Times published several articles “on why the US military needs to reinvent itself.” It described the state of US military as “Overmatched,” ...

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(The Conversation) — Thirteen Jewish leaders and artists were killed on the ‘Night of the Murdered Poets,’ one of the campaign’s most infamous examples of ...

Exactly 85 years ago — on Nov. 30, 1939 — the USSR’s aggression against Finland began. This “Winter War,” as it came to be known, was part of the Soviet leadership’s grand plan to divide Eastern ...

Pumping out warplanes by the tens of thousands, the USSR manufactured and deployed an astonishing number of military aircraft in its sixty-nine years of existence. With the defeat of Hitler, a tense ...

DUESSELDORF, Germany (AP) — When he saw a group of Soviet soldiers on the street in East Berlin, Los Angeles Rams offensive lineman Irv Pankey had an idea. He wanted a fur hat, and offered an ...

This tactic isn’t new. The Tsarist secret police famously forged The Protocols of the Elders of Zion to incite anti-Semitism, and the Soviet KGB spread anti-Zionist propaganda into western media and ...

A year after the crushing of the revolution, the United Nations held closed hearings to understand what had happened in Hungary in the autumn of 1956. The testimonies revealed the true face of the ...

MOSCOW, Oct 2 (Reuters) - Russia on Thursday said that there was no Cold War with the West because it was now a "fiery" conflict, and that the European Union and the NATO military alliance were lying ...