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How is the double-headed eagle from the Russian coat of arms different from the others?
How Soviet troops finished off Germany & Japan in 1945 (VIDEO)
How did Nazi Germany attack the Soviet Union? (VIDEO)
What are these giant statues doing in the middle of nowhere?
Why was the act of German surrender signed twice?
This Soviet schoolgirl used to poison Nazis (VIDEO)
The Battle of Kursk explained in 1 minute (VIDEO)
How the Pushkin Museum in Moscow saved masterpieces during World War II (PHOTOS)
How Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich came up with the first traffic rules
How a simple metronome saved thousands of lives during WWII (VIDEO)
Why did some of Napoleon's soldiers become Russian Cossacks? (VIDEO)
10 AMAZING works of Soviet avant-garde (PHOTOS)
How the Red Army inflicted a Soviet-style blitzkrieg on the Nazis in 1944 (VIDEO)
May Day demonstrations through the lens of Soviet photographers (PICS)
3 facts you didn't know about the balalaika (VIDEO)
How a Soviet tanker almost destroyed a German armored train with a ram (VIDEO)
How a ‘crocodile’ appeared on the streets of Moscow!
Why was Archpriest Avvakum burned alive?
How a Russian prospector ‘conquered’ Australia
What Soviet Russia was like in 1985 (PHOTOS)
80 years ago, Soviet & American troops met on the Elbe
Did you know that rollercoasters originated in the Russian Empire? (VIDEO)
How the Soviet Union turned the tide of World War II in 1943 (VIDEO)
25 PHOTOS of Tsar Nicholas II you've never seen before
This young man sacrificed himself to save his unit (VIDEO)
Why was ‘Saltychikha’ considered to be Russia’s CRUELEST woman?
Why did Russian Tsar Peter I forbid nobles to marry without knowing how to count?
This Soviet woman was dubbed 'Madame MiG' (VIDEO)
9 cities outside of Russia named after Stalin (PHOTOS)
How the Red Army ‘congratulated’ Hitler on his birthday
What Soviet Russia was like in 1975 (PHOTOS)
How the USSR found itself on the brink of disaster in 1942 (VIDEO)
'Frau Black Death' - That's what the Nazis called this Soviet woman (VIDEO)
How the USSR got rid of Stalin’s cult of personality
This girl went from a nurse to a tank company commander! (VIDEO)
How did female duels differ from male ones? (VIDEO)
Old Rus' makeup challenge! (VIDEO)
How the U.S. Secretly armed the Soviet Union for the war against Japan
What Soviet Russia was like in 1965 (PHOTOS)
Gagarin’s Historic Spaceflight (VIDEO)
How the Red Army stopped the German blitzkrieg in 1941 (VIDEO)
How Russian sailors rescued Italians during a horrific earthquake
The U.S. never paid Russia for Alaska... wait, what? (VIDEO)
How famous sculptor Ernst Neizvestny fought in World War II
To get to the front, this brave girl pretended to be a man (VIDEO)
Why was Kozelsk called ‘The evil city’?
The time legendary ice hockey player Wayne Gretzky visited the Soviet Union (PHOTOS)
How did the Soviet authorities spoil their ‘favorites’?
How a courtier wanted to… cast a spell on Russian Tsar Peter I
Soviet Moscow through the eyes of photographer Naum Granovsky (PHOTOS)
How Stalin became the ‘Father of Nations’ (PHOTOS)
What Soviet Russia was like in 1955 (PHOTOS)
How a group of Soviet submarines crossed three oceans during World War II
Bald-hairy-bald: All Russian leaders follow this strange pattern... (VIDEO)
The most OUTRAGEOUS Soviet ad posters (VIDEO)
This Soviet signalman brilliantly destroyed German tanks! (VIDEO)
How the ‘kissel’ drink saved Belgorod from plunder by nomads
Why was Kirill Meretskov nicknamed ‘Marshal of the Northern Directions’?
How the USSR built a dacha village for academicians (PHOTOS)
For many years, there was a week-long ‘mushroom madness’ in Moscow. Why?
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