Pop quiz: Where’s Hitler’s body? Is it: a) in Panama, b) in Uruguay, c) under the remains of the bunker in which he died, or d) in a laboratory in St Petersburg, frozen until the techno…

Pop quiz: Where's Hitler's body? Is it: a) in Panama, b) in Uruguay, c) under the remains of the bunker in which he died, or d) in a laboratory in St Petersburg, frozen until the technology can developed which would allow him to be revived to a sufficient state that he can be charged with and punished for his crimes against humanity?

According to very recent reporting, Hungary will release thousands of secret agent and informant files from the socialist era on November 4. The following is translated from a 30 Septembner 2026 Ru…

According to very recent reporting, Hungary will release thousands of secret agent and informant files from the socialist era on November 4. The following is translated from a 30 Septembner 2026 Russian-language news article. Researchers claim that virtually every resident of Hungary will be able to find the names of relatives or acquaintances in these lists. Consequently, alarm bells are apparently ringing out, with the advice that the Hungarian population should prepare themselves for painful conversations.

Wilhelm Kube was not a nice man, but the same could be said of so many others before and after him who donned the swastika armband. He is the author of the infamous quote, “What plague and sy…

Wilhelm Kube was not a nice man, but the same could be said of so many others before and after him who donned the swastika armband. He is the author of the infamous quote, "What plague and syphilis are to humanity, are Jews to the white race." That should be proof enough of the sort of man we'll be talking about in today's article.

On August 20, 1937, the NKVD’s “Polish Operation” began. It was one of many “national operations” carried out during the Great Terror, targeting ethnic Poles who were Soviet…

On August 20, 1937, the NKVD’s "Polish Operation" began. It was one of many "national operations" carried out during the Great Terror, targeting ethnic Poles who were Soviet citizens, as well as anyone else who might have had some connection to Poland. It was initiated by Secret NKVD Order No. 00485, dated August 9, 1937, and a Secret letter dated August 11 regarding the "fascist-insurgent, espionage, sabotage, defeatist, and terrorist activities of Polish intelligence in the USSR."

On 15 May 1955, the Austrian State Treaty was signed, thereby re-establishing Austria as a free, independent, and democratic sovereign state after World War II. The treaty was signed by the Allied …

On 15 May 1955, the Austrian State Treaty was signed, thereby re-establishing Austria as a free, independent, and democratic sovereign state after World War II. The treaty was signed by the Allied occupying powers (the United States, the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, and France) and the Austrian government, and officially ended the joint foreign occupation of Austria. All of the participating nations would come to ratify the treaty on 27 July, and within three months, all Allied troops would have been withdrawn from Austrian soil.

By the mid-1920s, fledgling author Mikhail Bulgakov was already a marked man in the eyes of Soviet authorities due to his critical and satirical views of the Bolshevik regime. In April 1926, agents…

By the mid-1920s, fledgling author Mikhail Bulgakov was already a marked man in the eyes of Soviet authorities due to his critical and satirical views of the Bolshevik regime. In April 1926, agents from the OGPU (the Soviet secret police and erstwhile precursor to the KGB) raided his Moscow apartment. During their search, the authorities confiscated his personal, highly candid diaries, along with the manuscript for his brilliant, biting satirical novella ‘

Whew. At some point, one would think Voroshilov would stop reading the incoming reports from the Ukrainian and Belorussian Fronts regarding out-of-control Red Army troops committing grievous crimes…

Whew. At some point, one would think Voroshilov would stop reading the incoming reports from the Ukrainian and Belorussian Fronts regarding out-of-control Red Army troops committing grievous crimes "against the backdrop of the excellent political and moral state of the units." This time, a Top Secret report from the Office of the Chief Military Prosecutor has reached his desk, almost demanding his attention.

When it rains, it pours for Marshall of the Soviet Union Kliment Voroshilov. Having done little to quell insubordination and a lack of military discipline and morale in the ranks, as the year 1939 …

When it rains, it pours for Marshall of the Soviet Union Kliment Voroshilov. Having done little to quell insubordination and a lack of military discipline and morale in the ranks, as the year 1939 draws to a close, he is facing the very real and growing issue of desertion. As we'll see in the following translation, however, it's more a question of nobody in charge passing information along to the infantrymen - and that appears to be a top-down problem.

One runs out of words when trying to explain the thought process of a decorated Marshal of the Soviet Union dismissing the unlawful summary execution of at least nine Polish civilians as a “m…

One runs out of words when trying to explain the thought process of a decorated Marshal of the Soviet Union dismissing the unlawful summary execution of at least nine Polish civilians as a "mistake and a misunderstanding" that took place against the backdrop of "combat operations and acute class struggle." Another slap on the wrist, then. Instead, I'll just offer another translation of a Top Secret report from Moscow that serves to underscore the barbarity of a military that played the victim when they discovered that Hitler had used them like pawns.

Disclaimer: The central photo of this image was created with AI. On September 22, 1939, four Soviet Polikarpov I-15 biplane fighters from the 35th Fighter Aviation Regiment crashed near Sinyavka, B…

Disclaimer: The central photo of this image was created with AI. On September 22, 1939, four Soviet Polikarpov I-15 biplane fighters from the 35th Fighter Aviation Regiment crashed near Sinyavka, Belarus, shortly after taking off from Nabushevo airfield. The flight of six I-15s and one I-16 was ordered to redeploy to Baranavichy during the Soviet invasion of Poland, but they encountered severe weather that led to a fatal disaster.

We can thank Carl von Clausewitz for the concept of the fog of war. But leave it to the Red Army to provide us with shining examples of the fog of logistics, which may have come close to derailing …

We can thank Carl von Clausewitz for the concept of the fog of war. But leave it to the Red Army to provide us with shining examples of the fog of logistics, which may have come close to derailing what otherwise should have been a walk-in-the-park invasion of Poland in 1939. Toss in a subsequent (and deadly) lack of discipline, and you've got the makings for some sloppy military order.

We’ve stumbled onto an unknown (to us) cache of thousands of classified documents held in the archives of the Lieutenant General Kazimierz Sosnkowski Military Historical Office dealing primar…

We've stumbled onto an unknown (to us) cache of thousands of classified documents held in the archives of the Lieutenant General Kazimierz Sosnkowski Military Historical Office dealing primarily with the challenges faced by Poland brought on by the USSR (invasion, annexation, authoritarian rule, oppression, etc.) from at least 1939 to 1955. It's a fascinating collection, and we've only seen the tip of the iceberg.

In October 1940, two young Soviet physicists named Viktor Maslov and Vladimir Shpinel, working at the Ukrainian Institute of Physics and Technology (UFTI) in Kharkiv, submitted a revolutionary inve…

In October 1940, two young Soviet physicists named Viktor Maslov and Vladimir Shpinel, working at the Ukrainian Institute of Physics and Technology (UFTI) in Kharkiv, submitted a revolutionary invention claim titled "On the Use of Uranium as an Explosive and Toxic Agent." This proposal would come to be recognized as the first valid technical design for an atomic bomb in the Soviet Union.

During his October 1964 vacation in Sochi, Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev held a notable meeting with a visiting Japanese parliamentary delegation that ultimately became one of his very last diplomatic acts before being overthrown. While a similar meeting in September 1964 saw Khrushchev aggressively issuing nuclear warnings against China to a Japanese cohort, the October meeting in Sochi served a completely different historical purpose: it provided the perfect smokescreen for the palace coup happening behind his back in Moscow.

The following translation is taken from a rather lengthy interrogation of Prince Nikolay Mikhaylovich Gagarin, a former Wehrmacht officer and commander of the 3rd squadron of the 600th Cossack divi…

The following translation is taken from a rather lengthy interrogation of Prince Nikolay Mikhaylovich Gagarin, a former Wehrmacht officer and commander of the 3rd squadron of the 600th Cossack division, who went over to the Smolensk partisans on June 9, 1943. The uniqueness of the document is that, to date, it is the only known story of a Russian emigrant, a representative of an old princely family, who ended up on the Eastern Front with Nazi troops, and then went over to the Soviet side, and later worked for Soviet intelligence in post-war Europe.

On 5 July 2026, the Ukrainian news agency Ukrainska Pravda [Ukrainian Truth] published an article blasting the Russian government’s Federal Security Service (FSB) for spreading faked “d…

On 5 July 2026, the Ukrainian news agency Ukrainska Pravda published an article blasting the Russian government's Federal Security Service (FSB) for spreading faked "declassified" documents in a massive campaign to undermine the growing strategic partnership between and Poland. This is certainly not the first time such claims have been made. Russia's Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR), in its periodical Razvedchik…

Much has been written across the years about the much-decorated Chief of the Naval Staff, Ivan Stepanovich Isakov. Almost all of the biographies, papers, and mere anecdotes dedicated to the Hero of…

Much has been written across the years about the much-decorated Chief of the Naval Staff, Ivan Stepanovich Isakov. Almost all of the biographies, papers, and mere anecdotes dedicated to the Hero of the Soviet Union's World War Two exploits make glancing, even joking, references to the fact that Isakov had a leg amputated after he was struck during a Luftwaffe air attack near Tuapse.

In 1942, the situation for the Soviet Union in the war against Nazi Germany took a dramatic turn for the worse. Soviet troops suffered defeats in Crimea and near Kharkov. German forces began a rapi…

In 1942, the situation for the Soviet Union in the war against Nazi Germany took a dramatic turn for the worse. Soviet troops suffered defeats in Crimea and near Kharkov. German forces began a rapid advance westward, moving toward the shores of the Caspian Sea and the Caucasus region. Given the situation, the USSR began pressing its allies to open a Second Front in 1942 in order to draw off some German divisions from the Eastern Front.

Frederick Flott, who died in 2006, was a longtime State Department diplomat around the world, as well as a CIA agent who worked under diplomatic cover. For years, the KGB tried to recruit him. Did it ...

In late August 1944, World War II was clearly coming to a swift close for Romania. Having sided with Nazi Germany under the government of Ion Antonescu, Romania observed the Red Army’s August 1944 …

In late August 1944, World War II was clearly coming to a swift close for Romania. Having sided with Nazi Germany under the government of Ion Antonescu, Romania observed the Red Army’s August 1944 Jassy-Kishinev offensive crush the Axis front in northeastern Romania. With no realistic chance of survival, the Romanian Army declared a unilateral ceasefire with the Soviets on the Moldavian front.