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Russia’s Ukraine war crosses grim WWII milestone — longer than Hitler’s invasion of the USSR

Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine has now lasted longer than Nazi Germany’s war against the Soviet Union, marking a ...
The National Interest on MSN

Congratulations, Putin: The Ukraine war has now lasted longer than World War II

Russia has lost around 1.2 million soldiers during the Ukraine War—a number that pales in comparison to its losses during the ...
The Kyiv Independent on MSN

Russia fighting Ukraine longer than USSR fought Nazi Germany, Zelensky highlights in address

The full-scale war in Ukraine entered its 1,418th day on Jan. 11, matching the length of Nazi Germany's fight against the ...

Soviet-Era TM-62 Landmine Has Become An All-Purpose Weapon In Ukraine

Russia and Ukraine have expanded their use of TM-62 anti-tank landmines, adapting them into drone-dropped munitions and ...

Exit Stalin — reforms and repression in the postwar, pre-collapse USSR

Mark Smith’s impressive history surveys life in the Soviet Union, and its advances and failures from Khrushchev to Gorbachev ...
Yahoo

Russia revives Soviet-era tactics to quash dissent, says UN expert

GENEVA (Reuters) -Russia is reviving Soviet-era tactics such as forced psychiatric treatment to silence dissenters and anti-war voices in an increasingly repressive environment, a U.N. expert ...

How a KGB archivist defected with a treasure trove of Soviet secrets — and even his family had no clue

Vladimir Mitrokhin’s amazing story is the subject of a new book, ‘The Spy in the Archive: How One Man Tried to Kill the KGB.’ ...
The Hill

Russia’s propaganda from the 1939 Winter War is now strangely familiar

Exactly 85 years ago — on Nov. 30, 1939 — the USSR’s aggression against Finland began. This “Winter War,” as it came to be known, was part of the Soviet leadership’s grand plan to divide Eastern ...

The last Russia-US nuclear treaty is about to expire. What happens next?

Even at the height of their Cold War nuclear rivalry, the United States and the Soviet Union thrashed out a series of ...