Soviet fought on both sides, according to imperial interests. "Tore the heart out of the Germans", according to Winston Churchill. The Soviet Union fought back the German invasion of 1941 at a huge...
Soviet entered the fighting on 17 Sept 1939, attacking Poland. This was according to the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact, letting each party expand by annexing adjacent territories, splitting Europe between...
Head of state in Russia was czar Nikolai II in WWI, until 1917. With the revolutions the power shifted between the Duma and later the Bolsheviks. Thus chairman Vladimir Lenin led the country to get...