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Kursk WW2: Why Russia is still fighting world's biggest tank battle
For decades Russians have seen no reason to doubt Soviet military historians, who portrayed the Battle of Prokhorovka on 12 July 1943 as a turning-point, where the Red Army seized the initiative ...
Vintage photo of soldiers making out has the internet cackling about their 'friendship kiss'
A vintage photo of two U.S. and Soviet soldiers kissing during WWII, labeled as a “friendship kiss,” is currently going viral ...
Russian minister says 48,000 relatives trying to trace soldiers via DNA
Forty-eight thousand relatives of Russian troops have submitted DNA samples, a government minister was recorded as saying, in a sensitive discussion apparently referring to attempts to identify dead ...
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Russia renovates two World War II cemeteries for Soviet soldiers in Poland
WARSAW, August 1. /TASS/. Russia’s Embassy to Poland has started repairing two major cemeteries to Soviet soldiers in the country, head of the Russian Defense Ministry’s representative office ...
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Russia warns Poland not to touch Soviet WW2 memorials
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 ...