From the Soviet Sputnik Magazine in 1985, a brief look at some of the decorations awarded during and after the Great Patriotic War as the...

Marshals of the Soviet Union remember the great triumph of the Red Army in July-August 1943 that ended all Nazi hopes for victory on the...

Lenin at the April Conference of the RSDLP (b), painting Pyotr Dmitrievich Buchkin (1886-1965), USSR The tremendously important April...

Crossing the Dnieper - Woodcut, V. I. Masyk February 23 was Red Army Day in the former USSR. It celebrated the formation of the Red Army...

Marina Raskova was killed near Stalingrad, January 4, 1943 Marina Raskova originally wanted to be an actress or singer but became a...

If we want to celebrate 1917 we must also look more deeply at what came after. There is much to celebrate there as well. This piece was...