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In 1942, a citizen of the southern Soviet Union city of Rostov-on-Don recalled its bombardment, documented in the book Rostov Under the Shadow of the Swastika by Vladislav Vyacheslavovich Smirnov:

Military alliance created in aftermath of Second World War in hope of bringing an end to bloody conflict between nations

“My wife said to me she doesn’t want her mother, who was born during the Second World War, to die in another war"

On the outside, it is a shabby corrugated iron hut. But 70 years ago, in the aftermath of the Second World War, this small shed in a rural southern corner of Scotland became a place of worship for a group of devout Ukrainian prisoners of war (PoWs). Today it operates…

Military alliance created in aftermath of Second World War in hope of bringing an end to bloody conflict between nations

Military alliance created in aftermath of Second World War in hope of bringing an end to bloody conflict between nations

Vladimir Putin’s interest in history is well known. He has accused Poland of starting the Second World War. He maintains that the Soviet Union liberated the western world from Nazism and any discussion over that view is “historical revisionism.”

Military alliance created in aftermath of Second World War in hope of bringing an end to bloody conflict between nations

UN refugee agency chief says a million people fled the country in the first seven days of Russia’s invasion