Thousands of Soviet officers lost their privileged positions in Eastern Europe due to GorbachevÍs withdrawal of troops stationed there since WWII -- losing their high salaries, access to foreign ...

The Soviet T-34 tank was vital in securing the Red Army's victory in WW2 The Russian government ... more than 600,000 Soviet soldiers and officers died and were buried. Hundreds of thousands ...

AFP/Getty Images Yuriy Mel (centre) was sentenced to seven years in prison The only two defendants present in the courtroom were Yuriy Mel, a former Soviet tank officer, and Gennady Ivanov ...

TASS/. The authorities of the Ukrainian city of Lvov will not hand over to Russia the remains of the Soviet Union’s WWII intelligence officer, Hero of the Soviet Union Nikolai Kuznetsov ...