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Difficult Converations Ahead – Hungary Prepares for Explosive Release of Declassified Archives

1943: Killing Kommissar Kube, Hitler’s Man in Occupied Belarus

1937: NKVD’s Ethnic Cleansing of Soviet Poles Begins

1955: Zhukov Advises CPSU on Soviet Troop Withdrawal from Austria, Bolsters the Warsaw Pact

Manuscripts Don’t Burn: The Secret 1926 Soviet Interrogations of Mikhail Bulgakov

1939: Robbery, Murder, and Rape – More Bad News for Voroshilov, Downplayed as “Negative Incidents”

1939: Infantry Deserters a Problem for the Red Army After Invading Poland

1939: Voroshilov Excuses Soviet War Crimes Against Polish Civilians as a Misunderstanding

1939: Voroshilov Issues Slaps on the Wrist for Negligence that Led to the Death of Four Soviet Airmen

1939: Stalin’s Biggest Enemy During the Soviet Invasion of Poland Was the Red Army Itself

1939: Logistics and Carelessness Abound While Nazis and Red Army Collaborate to Slice Poland in Half

October 1940: Soviet Patent on Creation of Atomic Bomb Mocked and Rejected by Soviet Defense Engineers

1964: Japanese Delegation Visit Khrushchev in Sochi as Smokescreen Before His Ouster Ten Days Later

1943: Prince Nikolay Gagarin Returns Home from Fighting for the Nazis

Russian FSB Using Declassified Materials and Emotion-Packed Rhetoric to Create Rift Between Ukraine, Poland

December 1942: Admiral Isakov’s Life-Saving Amputation Nearly Kills Him After Luftwaffe Attack

1942: Roosevelt Willing to Sacrifice 120,000 Troops in “Second Dunkirk” to Help Soviets, Churchill Outraged

1944 Romania Switches Alliances in WW2: Out of the Frying Pan, Into the Fire

1991: On the Cusp of the Fall of the Soviet Union, KGB Continues to Fret Over Radio Free Europe

1945: Stalin Reads Britain’s Top Secret Plans to Neutralize Worldwide Soviet Threat

1942: Nazi Propaganda School in Wustrow for Soviet POWs With Promise of Ukrainian Independence

1952: Soviet Executed for Collaborating with the Nazis During WW2 and Executing Soviet Jews

Russian Ministry of Defense Publishes Study of Long-Range Air-to-Air Missile Tactics in War with Ukraine

Top Secret 1962 Document: KGB Warns of “Hipsters” Poisoning the Morals of Soviet Youth

July 1941: Hero of the Soviet Union Executed for “Allowing” Nazi Germany to Invade USSR

June 1945: The Soviet Interrogation of Hermann Göring

April 1945: Germans Admit to the Needless Execution of Soviet POWs and Civilians on the Eve of the Fall of Königsberg

Soviet Intelligence Report: Germans in Stalingrad on the Eve of the 1942 Red Army Counteroffensive

Stalin’s 1941 Scorched Earth Order: Separating Myth from Fact

1966: Soviets Detonate 30-Kiloton Nuclear Charge to Extinguish Out-of-Control Gas Fire