World War I ended in Russia on March 3, 1918, with the signing of the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk. The signatories included Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, Turkey, and Lenin’s Bolshevik regime. Lenin ...

At the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month, the guns fell silent. The Great War — the “war to end all wars” — was over. But peace, it turned out, was not secured by the armistice signed in a ...

The ultimate betrayal of World War II is laid bare: Stalin’s invasion of Poland to claim his share of the secret Nazi-Soviet pact. Witness the chilling military parade in Brest-Litovsk where German ...

The unedited truth of the German defeat in Poland is exposed in this raw 1943 Soviet interrogation. Polish diplomats were arrested and resistance fighters were brutally silenced after Stalin’s forces ...

A festival tour brings together history, imagination and the growing bond between two movie industries, Xu Fan reports. From the fantasy romance I Am Dragon to the world's first feature film shot in ...

As we commemorate the 80th anniversary of the end of the Second World War, we must never forget those responsible for igniting that supreme example of human aggression and suffering. Conventional ...

"Focus" caused a furor on social media. Belarusian TikTok was blown up by another household discovery. One of the users discovered that the producers of Brest-Litovsk oil are very serious about ...

This is a worthy sequel to the author's biography of Hindenburg -- "Wooden Titan." It is particularly timely in view of Nazi Germany's alleged designs for eastward expansion much along the lines laid ...

During the War Estonians overthrew a native Bolshevik regime which had held their capital for five weeks. Next they fought off the Germans, who undertook to “police” Estonia after the Treaty of ...

Russia and the US just held talks on ending the war in Ukraine — without Kyiv. Eastern European history shows it isn't rare for major powers to decide the fate of smaller states. "We didn't just ...