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Soviet army and air force from 1918 to 1946
Historical research and multiple contemporary accounts establish that large-scale sexual violence occurred against German women during and after the Red Army’s advance in 1944–1945; estimates of victi...
From 1925 onward the Soviet Union and, after 1991, the Russian Federation conducted overt military invasions, occupations or annexations of multiple countries and territories including Afghanistan , C...
In 1968 the Soviet journalist Lev Bezymenski published The Death of Adolf Hitler, presenting alleged Soviet autopsy details and photographs of Hitler’s dental remains and asserting the Soviets had rec...
Conspiracy theories that Adolf Hitler survived 1945 center on a few recurring narratives—escape to Argentina, a submarine or Antarctic sanctuary, use of lookalikes or doubles, and outlandish claims ab...
Western historians have broadly concluded that Adolf Hitler died in Berlin on 30 April 1945 but have long treated Soviet claims about the discovery, autopsy and later handling of his remains with deep...
The Soviet Union conducted a series of direct military operations, occupations and covert interventions across Eurasia and beyond during the 20th century, ranging from Red Army advances in the civil-w...
Mass graves are integral to the history and memory of Auschwitz and the wider Nazi killing apparatus: Soviet liberators found piles of corpses and unburied bodies in January 1945, local and internatio...
The Treaty of Rapallo (16 April 1922) formally re-established diplomatic and economic relations between Weimar Germany and Soviet Russia and renounced mutual wartime claims (Avalon; Presidential Libra...
Germany and Soviet Russia began formal rapprochement with the 1922 Treaty of Rapallo and engaged in covert military collaboration in the 1920s that circumvented Versailles’ disarmament rules . In 1939...
The Soviet Union suffered the largest human toll of World War II: most sources place its total losses between about 20 million and 27 million people, combining military and civilian deaths (for exampl...
Adolf Hitler ordered the German invasion of Poland that began on 1 September 1939, an act that prompted Britain and France to declare war and is conventionally marked as the start of World War II in E...