Liberators of Belgrade memorial in the Belgrade - Andrija12345678, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons New Communist Party of Yugoslavia...

Defending Soviet memorials also means showing up in large numbers on May 8 and9 - Photo: Little Polar Bear 2015 / Wikimedia Commons / CC...

A brief, illustrated look at the remarkable Soviet recovery in the wake of the utter devastation of WWII. One of the most remarkable...

Latvian Legionnaires Day commemorating the 15th (1st Latvian) and the 19th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS (2nd Latvian), Riga,...

The Joy of Victory, painting, Nestor Jonuzi, People's Republic of Albania, 1975 -- Daily LIFT #1551 A representation of the triumph of...

Red Army forces marching through Moscow to the front, December, 1941 - RIA Novosti archive, image #429 / Oleg Ignatovich / CC-BY-SA 3.0...

One hundred and six years after the end of World War I, another such deadly concoction is brewing. War is permanent. Genocide is on TV. A...

From a folder of historic cards published in 1985 on the 40th anniversary of the victory of the USSR in the Great Patriotic War we...

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...

Marshal Zhukov at the 1945 Moscow Victory Parade -- Daily LIFT #1417 Georgy Zhukov, the great strategic military Red Army genius who...

From a folder of historic cards published in 1985 on the 40th anniversary of the victory of the USSR in the Great Patriotic War we...

Known as the Great Patriotic War in the USSR the Second World War left deep social scars and trauma that it took many years for the...

From a folder of historic cards published in 1985 on the 40th anniversary of the victory of the USSR in the Great Patriotic War we...

Soviet War Memorial in Berlin - Tx0h, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons The...

Police confiscate copies of Junge Welt Via Junge Welt and the KKE - translations from the German via Helmut-Harry Loewen In a shameful...

From press in the German Democratic Republic, 1985: Constructed between 1927 and 1935, the four buildings making up the ...

We have looked several times at the history of the Battle of Stalingrad and the city that it occurred in in posts like Victory at...

"Politruk" Junior Political Officer Alexey Yeremenko leading a counterattack against enemy positions moments before being killed in July,...

The Crossing Monument, Zaporizhzhia, Ukrainian USSR, USSR 1985 -- Daily LIFT #1215 A monument erected in honour of the 25th anniversary...

The Motherland Calls Stalingrad Monument under construction, April 1963 -- Daily LIFT #1212 From the Soviet Press, April 1963: Overgrown...