Rumor has it that an ancient, powerful curse contributed to the start of World War II. On June 22, 1941, Joseph Stalin ordered Soviet archaeologists to open the tomb of Amir Timur in Samarkand, ...
Maria Limanskaya, a World War II veteran captured in an iconic May 1945 photograph that shows her directing Soviet troops at the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, died in Russia’s southern Saratov region on ...