From the 1970s, it was also frequently given to the heads of the KGB and the Ministry of the Interior. The Soviet rank of army general is equivalent to the UK and US ranks of general; Soviet and ...

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In 1931, he began to work full-time for the Communist Party, rising through its ranks to become first secretary ... Khrushchev also attempted to improve Soviet living standards and allow greater ...

A form of modern realism imposed in Russia by Stalin following his rise to power after the death of Lenin in 1924, characterised in painting by rigorously optimistic pictures of Soviet life painted in ...

Prague, Czechoslovakia, May 9, 1945: A crowd cheering the arrival of Soviet troops in a tank. As the Allied forces moved in from the West to secure a German defeat in World War Two, the Soviet ...

80,000 Soviet soldiers died in the Second World War fighting to capture Berlin. The Soviet War Memorial in Treptow commemorates them. Only a few steps from the busy Treptower Hafen is the Soviet War ...

A place of remembrance in the centre of Berlin: the Soviet War Memorial on Straße des 17. Juni commemorates the fallen soldiers. The Brandenburg Gate is top of everyone’s list of sights to see in ...