Firearms experts pointed out some of the features in the grainy photo, suggesting that the rifle is actually a Soviet cousin of the AK, the SKS. It was designed in the 1940s by another famous ...

By Caroline Alexander The Soviet military often used unpowered balloons before World War II, and they made a resurgence in the Cold War. Now they’re being used in the Ukraine war, along with ...

Soviet propaganda was quite creative and formed negative perceptions of the church and priests in numerous visual images. “Religion is the opiate of the masses,” wrote Karl Marx, who inspired ...

Dense, synchronized fire from a mass of barrels begins to sweep away all living things on the ground… This is how the ‘Fire Hedgehog’ system was supposed to work, according to Soviet designers.