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More than 4,000 people on Monday filled an Okinawa park to mark the 80th anniversary of Japan's final WWII battle.
James Madison University has a new display full of pictures and stories of students who died in the Russia-Ukraine war.
Victoria Amelina’s unfinished notebook was salvaged after she was killed by a missile. From a bunker, meanwhile, John Lyons ...
The Trump government has issued a chilling decree that the U.S. National Park Service – which includes monuments and ...
Some of the Stalin nostalgia may be attributable to the coincidence (okay, not really a coincidence) that Stalin led the ...
The images were picked up by other X users. The memorial was erected in Zheleznogorsk, the second-largest city in the Kursk region, currently a contested area in the war between Russia and Ukraine. It ...
It is May 9, Russia's Victory Day, and journalists from the Barents Observer meet Korataev by the war monument in Kirkenes shortly before the local Russian Consul General is going to hold a ceremony ...
The population of Ukraine declined from 40 million to 20 million during World War II. Stalin ordered millions onto boxcars, sending them to his expanding Gulag system, never to return.
A Russian court has handed down a prison sentence of nearly three years to Daria Kozyreva, a young activist who used 19th-century poetry and graffiti to protest the war in Ukraine.. A Reuters news ...
In areas far from Russia's big cities, more than 120 monuments glorifying Russia's "special military operation," attempt to link the invasion of Ukraine to the Soviet victory in World War II.