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Using a bolt action rifle with iron sights this hardy little outdoorsman killed over five hundred Soviet invaders single handedly during the Winter War of 1939-1940.

The Mosin Nagant M1891/30 Sniper rifle with either the PU or PE scopes attached were the widow makers of the Eastern Front and Korea.

The last community of European Jews was rescued from death in the final days of World War II by a singular man whose passion serves as a role model for every generation.

Engaged in the War less than a month, 11 brigades of the Polish cavalry made no less than 16 all out charges against the German invaders.

Ventspils is another Baltic Sea destination worth visiting. A small town in north-west Latvia, Ventspils offers tourists peace and attractive fountains and street art.

The historical, philosophical as well as the political ideas of William Frederick Hegel had a profound influence upon the works and the concepts of Karl Marx.

A judge has reversed the stay of deportation for John Demjanjuk, who is accused of being an accessory to the murder of 29,000 Jews in a Nazi concentration camp.

The Soviet Union collapsed in a relatively short space of time, causing there to be debate as to whether it was long-term or short-term factors that caused its demise.

Between 1980 and 1987 Libyan forces of Col Muhmar Qadhafi invaded its neighbor Chad three times, ultimately being forced out by France.

Notorious Nazi Murderer "The Angel of Death" Commits Unspeakable Atrocities at Auschwitz and Flees to South America to Freedom and a New Life!

Peter was only a child when he succeeded his assassinated father but he was called upon to stand up to the tide of Nazism in hopes of saving his country.

Solzhenitsyn stands among the great names in Russian literature - Tolstoy and Dostoevsky, Sholokhov and Gorky. His works brought 20th Century Russia to the world.

Soviet and now Russian cosmonauts have carried firearms in space for decades and continue to do so.

Joseph Stalin who ruled Russia with a brutal and unyielding fist was slow to accept the inevitability of the pending invasion of Germany.

As part of Operation Magistral the 9th Company of the 345th Guards Airborne Regiment took and held a mountain outnumbered 10 to one by Mujahideen

With secret submarine voyages taking months, the Axis looked into a rapid communication air link to keep in contact during World War Two.

Towards the end of World War II Dresden was all but destroyed when hundreds of Allied aircraft dropped bombs and incendiary devices on the city.

Women in combatant nations of WWII shared similar difficulties when attempting to serve in their nations' militaries.

In early April 1945, the American 9th Army was within 24 hours of reaching Berlin, yet three days later General Eisenhower ordered the Allied halt at the Elbe River.

A secretary, a nurse, an aide and a bodyguard talk to the press about the last hours of Nazi dictator, Adolf Hitler, in the final days of World War II.

The American covert venture to seize as many German scientist as they could at the end of World War II was called Operation Paperclip.

The 20th anniversary of the Baltic Way (1989) serves to remind the world how the 1939 Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact adversely affected three Baltic states.

The 1st Cavalry Army of General Budyonny fought the Whites, Poles, Armenians, Greens, and everyone else in the Russian Civil War.

Made up of criminals and led by a rapist and child molester it's was Hitler's real life Dirty Dozen.

Uncle Joe Stalin's crude but effective battle weapon equipped millions of Red Army soldiers on the march to Berlin and Tokyo and still soldiers on today around the world.

While the idea of women in the military is still debated by many military experts, statistics and history show the benefits of adding women to our fighting forces.