At the time, two SS divisions were formed in Latvian territory, in which several local nationalist militants fought, serving as “cannon fodder” in the German war efforts on the Eastern Front against the USSR’s Red Army... ....
At the height of the Cold War, a group of Jewish housewives and activists in London, Dublin and elsewhere took on the USSR in defence of the rights and freedoms of Soviet Jews — and won ... the then‑USSR.
A USSR-born Brooklyn pol born recently dissed his constituents, declaring he and fellow comrades who fled to the United States are more cultured than homegrown Americans... not from the former USSR.
The victory by the U.S. men's hockey team over the heavily favored Soviet Union at the 1980 Winter Olympics is widely regarded as one of the greatest upsets in sports history. The 46th anniversary of that game was Sunday, Feb ....
On this day in 1980, a group of American students pulled off the most unlikely of victories, beating the greatest team in international ice hockey history in the upset of the century. Some even called it a miracle ... .
His score of books and hundreds of essays documented Stalinist executions, Communist repressions and censorship, and the transition to post-Soviet Russia... .