This prelude to our Eastern Front WWII series explores how Stalin reshaped the Soviet Union into a global military force.

In June 1942, aiming to crush the Soviet Army and secure the Eastern Front, Adolf Hitler launched Operation Case Blue. The ...

Stalin was desperate ... who has read Meltzer and Mensch's book (and who has written bestsellers about World War II herself), said no: "I don't think there is enough evidence, at least not ...

a psychological turning point of World War II. German dictator Adolf Hitler had set his sights on Stalingrad in part because it was named after his rival, Soviet leader Josef Stalin. Hitler had ...

Joseph Stalin, center, with the founder of the first female tractor ... over a grandiose Red Square parade marking 80 years since the Soviet victory in World War II. The white plaster sculpture covers ...

Stalin's likeness is located near the Battle of Stalingrad Museum and is flanked by similar busts of World War II-era Soviet leaders Georgy Zhukov and Alexander Vasilevsky. Statues of the ...

Feb 1 (Reuters) - A new bust of Soviet leader Josef Stalin has been unveiled in Volgograd ahead of Wednesday's 80th anniversary of the Red Army's defeat of Nazi invaders in the bloodiest battle of ...

"Karine Jean-Pierre said that World War II was won by the Americans and Ukrainians, who fought together against Stalin," the post's caption states. In the video, Jean-Pierre is purportedly asked ...

their conduct of operations is rapidly reverting to the way Joseph Stalin’s Soviet Union fought the Great Patriotic War (as the Russians almost always refer to World War II): a maniacal slog ...