Why We Fight, a series of seven propaganda films commissioned by the U.S. government and directed by Frank Capra during World War II, was an attempt to explain U.S. involvement in the war and justify ...

Shortly before that, Putin laid flowers at the Rubezhny Kamen monument on Nevsky Prospekt in the Leningrad Region.

In the frozen heart of WWII, the Soviets launch Operation Iskra, a daring offensive to break the German stranglehold on Leningrad. With a thunderous 4,500-gun artillery barrage and coordinated ...

Lyudmila Vasilyeva, 84, survived the Siege of Leningrad in World War II as a child. Now, the Russian pensioner has been prosecuted for calling for peace in Ukraine and says she feels "hurt" over what ...

At 87, most men rest. Nikolai Morozov picked up a rifle and joined the fight to break the siege of Leningrad—becoming WWII’s oldest known soldier. Hours-long police standoff in southern Ontario leads ...