Worsening relations between the Allies after World War II meant no commerce between East and West. That was an issue for Soviet Gen. Georgy Zhukov, who came to like Coca-Cola during the war. The US ...

Mikhail Kalashnikov, the Soviet general who designed the ubiquitous automatic weapon that now bears his name, died on Dec. 23 at the age of 94. Iterations of the gun he invented now exist in the tens ...

You probably knew there were ample defectors from the Soviet Union to Nazi Germany during the Second World War... but did you know high-ranking officers, even generals defected? Andrey Vlasov was one ...

After returning from a family outing in March 1985, Col. Roland Lajoie, head of a U.S. military liaison team authorized to monitor Soviet forces in East Germany under a Cold War accord, was notified ...

Afghanistan has been in a state of war for more then a quarter-century. It began when the Soviet Union invaded the country in 1979. More then a million Afghans were killed, as well as about 15,000 ...

Espionage deep in the heart of Europe. Secrets in the KGB. Defection from a communist nation. Ion Mihai Pacepa has seen his share of excitement, serving as general for Communist Romania's secret ...

While the Tiger tank earned the fame, the Sturmgeschütz III (StuG III) assault gun was, statistically, Germany’s most ...

MOSCOW, July 17. /TASS/. Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) published for the first time a testimony by a Wehrmacht general about Nazi Germany’s wide-spread war crimes on the territory of the ...

In one of my recent Gazette columns, I described how I became a translator to a Soviet general in Budapest, Hungary, during the last phase of the Second World War. Being fluent in Czech and Slovak ...

https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7864/jj.17497130 https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7864/jj.17497130.2 THE DRAMATIC CHANGES under way in the Soviet Union and the world ...