Feb 1 (Reuters) - A new bust of Soviet leader Josef Stalin has been unveiled in Volgograd ahead of Wednesday's 80th anniversary of the Red Army's defeat of Nazi invaders in the bloodiest battle of ...

Yet this is not a Holocaust memorial as such. Its official title is "the memorial to Soviet civilians who fell victim to the Nazi genocide". I listen to a tour guide as she tells a group of ...

More Soviet soldiers are arriving by boat from across a lake. Once on the island they tear down a swastika and replace it with the hammer and sickle of the Soviet Union. Victory. A large crowd is ...