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 ...

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 ...

She became a combat medic and served with the Soviet forces for four years. One day, as she was helping ferry a wounded soldier across the roiling Dniepr River, her oar broke, so she paddled ...