The Soviet-Afghan War raged for nine years and is considered a major part of the overarching Cold War between the US and its ...

Yes, there were Soviet troops in North Vietnam, and in significantly larger ... i.e., full-blown World War III between the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact on the side and the United States ...

As the career of the Phantom attests, an aerial enemy patrolled the skies over Vietnam. The Soviet Union supplied North Vietnam with aircraft and trainers to fight American air superiority.

The diplomatic relation between Vietnam and Russia has consistently developed in an upward trajectory, growing more intensively and extensively, and now at its highest level of the comprehensive ...

the DP 7.62 was provided to the Vietnamese by both China and the Soviet Union. In North Vietnam, American pilots faced a deadly barrage of radar-guided, base-stationed anti-aircraft fire.

On his birthday every year a delegation of senior Vietnamese officials solemnly lay flowers and bow their heads before the statue, a gift from Russia when it was still the Soviet Union.