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In 1945, eighty years ago, no one knew how World War II would end
Eighty years ago, during World War II, the United States operated full-scale military operations worldwide while planning how ...
A Brief History of the Soviet Deserters Who Aided Hitler
Hundreds of thousands of foreigners served in the Wehrmacht, most famously the Vlasov Army.
‘A miracle of Western tenacity’: how 10 million refugees found homes after World War II
In her latest book, historian Sheila Fitzpatrick tells the story of millions of displaced people and international efforts to ...
Foreign Affairs16h
Would a Peace Deal in Ukraine Last?
A peace settlement to end a major war can be an opportunity to reorder the world. After the defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte in ...
PhillyVoice18d
How the Philadelphia Museum of Art unearthed forgotten anti-Nazi posters
The Russian propaganda prints came from a studio that generated hundreds of thousands of them, and three copies will be part of an upcoming exhibit on 1940s design.
Will the U.S. collapse like the Soviet Union did?
America’s current retreat from world power recalls that of the Soviet Union after 1988. Is the U.S. poised to collapse like ...
Almost 80 years later: Why Churchill’s Iron Curtain Speech still resonates in modern Russia-Europe relations
It has been nearly 80 years since Winston Churchill delivered his ‘Iron Curtain Speech’ but the message in it still resonates ...
TwinCities.com7d
Trump casts doubt on NATO solidarity, despite it aiding the US after Sept. 11
The U.S. was one of 12 nations that formed NATO following World War II to counter the threat posed by the Soviet Union to ...
CBS News14d
Boris Spassky, Soviet-era chess champion who lost "match of the century" to American Bobby Fischer, dies at 88
Boris Spassky, a Soviet-era world chess champion who lost his title to ... having managed to flee Leningrad with his family ...
Boris Spassky, Soviet chess champion who lost famed Cold War-era match to Bobby Fischer, dies at 88
Boris Spassky, a Soviet-era world chess champion who lost his title to American Bobby Fischer in a legendary 1972 match that became a proxy for Cold War rivalries ... the Soviet Union had compiled an ...