The sensational defection of Stalin’s only surviving child made international news and four days later, at a press conference in the Plaza Hotel, she denounced the Soviet Communist regime and her father’s leadership.
On the 27th January 1945, Soviet soldiers from the 322nd Rifle Division liberated the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp near the Polish city of Oświęcim.
On the 26th December 1991, the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union met for the last time to formally dissolve itself and the Soviet Union.
On the 6th December 1956, the “Blood in the Water” water polo match took place between the USSR and Hungary.
When news of the incident reached the Soviet Union, party leader Leonid Brezhnev wrote to Carter condemning the ‘tremendous danger’ caused by the error.
Shortly after midnight in Moscow, the Soviets became the first to successfully send a human-made object to the Moon.
The two rockets of the Apollo–Soyuz Test Project launched from the USA and the USSR in the first international collaborative space mission.
The Battle of Berlin ended after German General Helmuth Weidling surrendered to Soviet General Vasily Chuikov.
The German Empire established its first air force, the Fliegertruppe, in 1910 which saw extensive action in the First World War.
On the 20th January 1942, a number of senior Nazis met at the Wannsee Conference where they discussed what was referred to as the Final Solution to the Jewish Question.
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