Ukrainian Alexei Berest hoists Victory Banner over Reichstag on May 01, 1945
" On 30 April 1945, after long days of street combat in Berlin, the 150th Division attacked the Reichstag. On 1 May, at...
Ivan Kozhedub, a Ukrainian, was the highest scoring Allied and Soviet fighter pilot of...
Unfortunately, after World War II, he remained in the military and went on to command the 324th Fighter Aviation Division during...
Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra and central Kyiv were blown up by the Soviet sappers
John Steinbeck was deceived – the fact is that Kiev was blown up by the Soviets on September 24-28, 1941, after...
How Moscow bred Hitler and brought about World War 2
Each beginning of May in the past couple of decades, the whole of Russia falls into what people of other countries...
Moscow occupied its part of Poland according to Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact under pretence of “protecting...
"The Soviet invasion of Poland was a military operation by the Soviet Union without a formal declaration of war...
The Red Army, which vastly...
The biggest tank battle of all time took place in Ukraine on June 23,...
The largest tank battle of WW2 is largely unknown, but it took place in western Ukraine in the triangle between the...
History as a Weapon in Russia’s War on Ukraine, – Atlantic Council
"We learn that “the Russians” suffered twenty-seven million losses before taking Berlin. Meanwhile, there is scant reference to the fact Ukraine saw...
John Steinbeck depicts Ukrainians and their difference from Russians
Different looks, heartiness
“Everyone had told us it would be different once we got outside of Moscow, that the sternness and the...
John Steinbeck describes post-WW2 Ukraine. (1946 Kyiv trip)
Excerpts are from “A Russian Journal” written by John Steinbeck after his trip with a famous war photographer Robert Capa to...
Elbe Day iconic photo: American Robertson and Ukrainian Silvashko
April 25, 1945, the day American troops and the troops of the First Ukrainian Front met at the Elbe River, near...
