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BERLIN — David Dushman, the last surviving Soviet soldier involved in the liberation of the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz, has died. He was 98. The Jewish Community of Munich and Upper Bavaria ...
A former Soviet Army soldier who went missing in action in 1980 during the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan has been found alive almost 33 years after he was rescued by Afghan tribesmen.
The Soviet soldier, missing since 1980, was nursed back to health by locals after being wounded in battle. He later converted to Islam and married an Afghan woman.
A Soviet soldier credited with saving the world from nuclear holocaust has died at age 77. Stanislav Petrov was the duty officer monitoring an early warning system from a bunker outside Moscow ...
Missing in action since 1980, a former Soviet soldier has been found alive and well in Afghanistan almost 33 years after he was wounded during the Soviet campaign in the country. Bakhredtin Khakimo… ...
The Soviet Soldier. September 1952 Issue. Share. Save. on the World today. ATLANTIC. September 1952. BETWEEN September 15 and October 15 some 750,000 able-bodied male citizens of the Soviet Union ...
MOSCOW, Sept. 18 -- Boris Gromov was the last Soviet soldier to leave Afghanistan. The commanding general's lonely retreat on foot across the Friendship Bridge spanning the Amu Daria river on Feb ...
Ernst Volland said the photo -- which depicts a Soviet soldier wielding his country's flag above the Reichstag building in Berlin May 2, 1945 -- went through several manipulations before it became ...
When the Soviet Army's 322nd Rifle Division entered the concentration camp at Auschwitz on Jan. 27, 1945, they found a desolation. Mounted on shaggy ponies, they had proceeded with caution as they ...
Maria Limanskaya, who has died aged 100, was a Soviet traffic “regulator” who in May 1945 became known as the “Victory traffic controller” and the “Brandenburg Madonna” after a ...
Lost for 33 years, Bachredtin Khakimov, a former Soviet soldier presumed dead by Russia, was recently found working as an herbal healer in a remote Afghan village.