A Russian Assault Group Riding In Pickup Trucks And Flying The Soviet Flag Got ‘Special Attention’ From Ukrainian Forces
As a Ukrainian drone observed from on high, a platoon- or company-sized Russian force assembled outside Pokrovsk, in eastern ...
When The United States Broke Into 2 Countries, Had 2 Presidents, 2 Flags
In 1861, when Republican leader Abraham Lincoln was on his way to becoming President of the United States of America, the ...
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Why Many Young Russians See a Hero in Putin
Sasha survived the Nineties too. In December 1991, just months before he was born, the Soviet flag came down over the Kremlin and the Russian tricolor went up, ushering in the decade that hangs ...
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VE Day: The fall of Nazi Berlin in pictures
A famous staged photo shows a Soviet soldier lifting the flag of the USSR above the historic parliament building. The city officially surrendered on 2 May, though fighting continued until the end ...