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Articles with tag "WW2"

Remembering the fallen

Russian TV Airs 13M Names of Soviet WWII Casualties Ahead of 75th Victory Day

It will take 76 days to air all 12.6 million names.
delayed justice

Russia Asks Canada to Hand Over Files on Ex-Nazi Death Squad Member

He has said he was forced to join one of the Nazis' mobile killing squads at the age of 17 and did not take part in any atrocities.
historical legacy

Putin Keeps Stalin’s Crimes Under Wraps in WWII Battle With West

His defense of Stalin and the Soviet record threatens to undermine Russian efforts to ease tensions with the West.
historical imbalance

Israel’s Holocaust Memorial Apologizes for ‘Pro-Russian’ Commemoration

Critics accused the memorial's Holocaust forum of showing video clips that portrayed the Soviet Union as nearly the only victor over Nazi Germany.
WW2

Russians Mourn 500,000 Buried in Mass Grave After Siege of Leningrad

On the 76th anniversary of the Siege of Leningrad, Russians honored those who perished.
opinion
Leonid Bershidsky

Putin’s Latest Obsession: A New World War II Narrative

Russia’s global power is still based on some important spoils of World War II. 
Echoes of WWII

Putin Calls Former Polish Ambassador ‘Anti-Semitic Pig’

Putin said the envoy planned to install a Hitler monument in Warsaw.
in photos

In Photos: Everyday Life in Postwar Leningrad

By looking at these photos, one would hardly guess that the Siege of Leningrad had ended just two years earlier.
delayed justice

Russia Opens Genocide Case Into Nazi Killings

Nazi Germany murdered 214 disabled children in Yeysk in southern Russia during World War II.
War Walk

Russians Relive WWII Experience in Life-Size Exhibition in St. Petersburg

The immersive panorama features street skirmishes, life-size tanks and trenches.
Molotov-Ribbentrop

Russia Declassifies WWII Docs Relating to Soviet-Nazi Pact

The Defense Ministry said it released the documents to “protect historical truth and counter the falsification of history.”
many differences

Putin Rebuffs Call by Japan's Abe to Sign WWII Peace Treaty

Moscow has repeatedly raised concerns about U.S. military systems being deployed on Japanese territory.
scathing criticism

Bulgaria Condemns Russian Exhibit Lauding WWII 'Liberation' of Eastern Europe

The Foreign Ministry of Bulgaria urged Russia's mission in Sofia "not to take a stand in support of a dubious historical claim."
Still divided

‘Poland Started WWII’: Russia Reacts to 80th Commemoration Snub

Russian officials and state media have had no shortage of opinions on Poland's snub of Moscow.
Graphic re-enactment

'Death to Traitors': Russian Festival Stages Mock WWII Execution

Some viewers called the display “sick,” while others maintained that “people should know [this happened].”
Historical interpretation

Baptized Russian Soldiers Won WWII While Atheists Died, Orthodox Bishop Says

"The war was won by those who were... spiritually called to defeat [Nazi Germany]."
Remembering

Tanks and Flowers: St. Petersburg Celebrates End of Leningrad Siege (in Photos)

The 75th anniversary of the lifting of the Siege of Leningrad was marked on Sunday, Jan. 27.
WW2

Half of Russians Believe Country Won WWI, State Pollster Says

The percentage of respondents who believe that Russia should have participated in the war has increased to 42 percent this year, up from 30 percent in...
WW2

Russian Soldiers Reenact WWII-Era Parade on Red Square

Russian troops reenacted the legendary Red Army parade of Nov. 7, 1941, on Wednesday.
St. Petersburg

As Russia Remembers the Leningrad Siege, Some Are Fighting for the Right to Mourn

An estimated one million peopled died in the siege that would last for 872 days — of starvation, disease and shelling.
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