IT’S any Royal Editor’s dream to get time with Wills and Kate. But when I saw them this week, they weren’t exactly chatty.

On 11 May 1944, just four weeks before D-Day, 67 American heavy bombers dropped 168 tons of bombs on the sunlit French town ...

Ivan IV Vasilyevich was just a teenager when he was crowned czar and grand prince of all Russia on January 16, 1547. Today, Ivan is better known as Ivan the Terrible, though the name wouldn’t be ...

No matter how hard Western countries try to rewrite our history, the two greatest events of the last century - the Parade of ...

The Prince and Princess of Wales are two of the most-photographed people in the world. And thousands of tourists flock to Poland’s Polonia Wax Museum in Krakow to take selfies with these ...

Lenin, though not common, was not totally unknown in then Ceylon and now Sri Lanka. If fact we even have a Joseph Stalin leading a teachers’ trade union and there have been more than one Hitler in ...

Lenin and his ideological descendants, including Joseph Stalin and Vladimir Putin, play an outsize role in “A Measure Short of War,” in part to show how America and other democracies have been ...

Under Joseph Stalin, the Soviet Union had no lack of dissent ... had been systematically dismantled under Vladimir Lenin in the early 1920s, and organized opposition was rendered impossible ...

The image of an unbroken line from Lenin to Joseph Stalin, and on to Leonid Brezhnev and Mikhail Gorbachev, is maybe the biggest falsification in history. Publications like The Black Book of Communism ...

The 75th anniversary of the large hydroelectric power station commissioned by Stalin, still the second largest in Russia, was ...

The first record I ever owned was “Cruisin’” by Village People.  Released in 1978, the album included a song that would ...