It wasn`t so much what Soviet Marshal Sergei Akhromeyev said the other day, but rather where he said it that made you do a double take. Even with the tide of glasnost messengers that has washed ...

A Prague district assembly on September 12 voted to remove a statue of wartime Soviet Marshal Ivan Konev, a move that angered Russia and drew the pro-Kremlin Czech president into the fray.

The monument would honour Soviet Marshal Ivan Konev, who led the 1944 Carpathian-Dukla operation—an attempt to support the Slovak National Uprising against Nazi occupation. Putin called the ...

Municipal authorities in the Czech capital, Prague, have decided not to rehang a memorial plaque honoring the Soviet marshal who participated in the city's liberation at the end of World War II ...

The last marshal of the Soviet Union Dmitry Yazov, who was a key player in the political turmoil that precipitated the collapse of the USSR, died in Moscow on Tuesday aged 95. Yazov, who was then ...

On the eve of the Geneva Conference, Marshal Bulganin, in a speech to the Central Committee of the Soviet Communist Party, acknowledged the shortcomings of the Soviet industrial organization. For ...

When Georgy Zhukov, the most prominent Soviet marshal during World War II, died in 1974 after 15 years in retirement and away from public life, the émigré poet Joseph Brodsky wrote a poem called ...

Captured and tortured by the Germans, this American paratrooper escaped his POW camp and fought alongside the Soviets as they marched to Berlin.

The statue of Marshal Ivan Konev, who led the Red Army forces that liberated most of Czechoslovakia and entered Prague on May 9, 1945, was erected in 1980.