Not even local cops cosplaying as Soviet secret police and a newly installed bust of Josef Stalin were enough to prop up Russia’s Vladimir Putin as he emerged from his bunker on Thursday to deliver a ...

With German tanks only miles from the Kremlin, Stalin shocked the world by staging a full military parade in Red Square. Under falling snow and the threat of Luftwaffe strikes, Soviet troops marched ...

The Russian president is seeking to use the event to depict himself as a global leader despite Western efforts to isolate him and a failure to win the war in Ukraine. By Ivan Nechepurenko and Anton ...