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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)
12 cities 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?
How Russian troops entered Paris in 1814 (VIDEO)
How a blind & deaf girl became a great Soviet scientist
What Soviet Russia was like in 1945 (PHOTOS)
How a Soviet peasant led German soldiers into an ambush (VIDEO)
This Soviet teen became a real master of sabotage (VIDEO)
How the USSR helped China in the war against Japan (PHOTOS)
Top 5 examples of Stalinist architecture
‘Red Five’: The first Soviet aerobatic team
What Soviet Russia was like in 1935 (PHOTOS)
How did the most criminal cities of the USSR fight crime? (VIDEO)
This Soviet partisan terrorized the Nazis with 'coal mines' (VIDEO)
March 19 is Submariner's Day in Russia!
How humankind went into outer space for the first time in history
Why did Russians literally sleep on stoves? (VIDEO)
How a Russian aristocrat defended Great Britain from the Nazis
What Russia was like in 1925 (PHOTOS)
They had to FREEZE this building in order to construct it (VIDEO)
How the ‘Ready for Labor & Defense’ Complex Appeared in the USSR (PICS)
This Soviet pilot successfully executed 4 aerial rams & survived! (VIDEO)
Why was the war against Finland so difficult for the USSR?
WILDEST anti-alcohol ads from the USSR (VIDEO)
How Napoleon wanted to become RELATED to the Russian Tsar!
What Russia was like in 1915 (PHOTOS)
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