When Germany launched Operation Barbarossa in 1941, Adolf Hitler viewed Leningrad as far more than a military target. Seen as ...

Why We Fight, a series of seven propaganda films commissioned by the U.S. government and directed by Frank Capra during World War II, was an attempt to explain U.S. involvement in the war and justify ...

In the frozen heart of WWII, the Soviets launch Operation Iskra, a daring offensive to break the German stranglehold on Leningrad. With a thunderous 4,500-gun artillery barrage and coordinated ...

On the way to the monument along the 300-meter alley from the Eternal Flame, the president traditionally laid flowers at one of the mass graves where his brother Viktor, who died in besieged Leningrad ...

Lyudmila Vasilyeva, 84, survived the Siege of Leningrad in World War II as a child. Now, the Russian pensioner has been prosecuted for calling for peace in Ukraine and says she feels "hurt" over what ...