Russian President Vladimir Putin has often ignored the West's role in his May 9 speeches marking victory in World War II. This time he took it a step further, saying the Soviet people were "alone ...

From what has leaked out of Mao’s speech, the 63-year-old Chinese ruler, in a long, theoretical harangue to 800 ideological commandos, denied two fundamental propositions of Soviet ideology: 1 ...

Pavel Litvinov is a former Soviet dissident and human rights activist who played a key role in protesting state repression in the U.S.S.R. In 1968, he was among the eight protesters who staged a ...

Putin's speeches invoke Russia's fight against fascism in WWII to justify the war in Ukraine — and use propaganda strategies from Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union, historian says ...