In the late 1940s, Joseph Stalin fabricated criminal cases to accuse a number of Communist politicians of treason during The Leningrad Affair.   More »

By Pat McTaggart
It was called Nordlicht, or Northern Lights. With Hitler’s drive toward Stalingrad in full swing, the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht (OKW—German Armed Forces High Command) was also planning to end the almost year-long siege of Leningrad in a two-pronged attack to capture the city.
Failing to take Leningrad in 1941,   More »

Survivors of the 900-day siege on the city tell their miraculous stories.   More »

Alexander Pokryshkin was second only to Ivan Kozedub in Soviet aerial victories during World War II.   More »

Both the Soviet Red Army and German Army Group North suffered heavy casualties during winter fighting in 1943-1944.   More »

By Pat McTaggart

The smell of victory was in the air as the forces of Field Marshal Fedor von Bock’s Army Group Center continued to drive deep into the Ukraine during the final week of June 1941. To most of the young soldiers of the army group it seemed that this   More »

German Panzers under General Heinz Guderian captured the Ukraine in 1941.   More »

A pivotal engagement during the bitter Winter War between the Soviet Union and Finland had far reaching consequences.   More »

One of the greatest art treasures of Imperial Russia disappeared with the Nazis and has yet to be found.   More »

Hitlers 1941 invasion of the Soviet Union nearly succeeded until a counterattack, combined with a brutal winter led to ultimate victory for the USSR.   More »