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Stalin's City of Bones: Hitler's Plan to Annihilate Leningrad in Operation Barbarossa

Adolf Hitler saw Leningrad not just as a military objective, but as the symbolic birthplace of Bolshevism that had to be ...

Discover Moscow's Colorful Cathedrals and Striking Palaces

Even those who’ve never been to Moscow recognize the colorful domes of St. Basil’s Cathedral, which sits on Red Square below the ramparts of the Kremlin. The Kremlin’s tower-studded, walled complex of ...