In the bleak Leningrad of late 1945 ... Later, we learn that she was “invalided out” from the front, due to concussion-related PTSD. Despite her manifold shyness, Iya is a favourite among ...

Germany has so far failed do the same with regard to the siege of Leningrad and other crimes against the peoples of the Soviet Union committed during World War II. Russia insists that Germany ...

A Mi-28 helicopter crashed Tuesday during a planned training flight over Russia's Leningrad region, killing the crew onboard, local media reported, citing the Russian Defense Ministry, China Daily ...

PETERSBURG, Jan. 27 (Xinhua) -- Russia's St. Petersburg ... The city, then called Leningrad, endured a 872-day blockade by Nazi German forces during World War II. The siege, which lasted from ...

Residents of Plymouth, Tokyo, and Hamburg remember the air raids; Russian peasants recall the siege of Leningrad; Japanese soldiers and Korean slave-laborers describe the brutality of war in Asia.