World War 2

Author of the article: Russian forces stormed the Azovstal steel plant in Ukraine’s strategic port of Mariupol and stepped up missile strikes elsewhere, Ukrainian officials said, as President Vladimir Putin oversaw a parade of military firepower in Moscow. VICTORY DAY * Putin evoked the memory of Soviet heroism in World…

Good morning. Vladimir Putin has told Russian soldiers they are “fighting for the same thing their fathers and grandfathers did” as he used his Victory Day speech to tie the war in Ukraine to the memory of the second world war and justify his invasion. Prior to the speech, foreign…

Vladimir Putin was born seven years after the end of the second world war, and raised on the Brezhnev-era myth of the great victory. A man of no great education, he loved to quote Soviet films and old stories. The history books portrayed the “great patriotic war” as a magical…

Zelensky says ‘evil’ returned to Europe in an address for Victory Day to mark the end of Second World War Zelensky says ‘evil’ returned to Europe in an address for Victory Day to mark the end of Second World War Ukrainian forces were braced to defend their final bastion in…

IMPENDING TERROR Smoke rising in the sky is pictured from Paraskoviivka, eastern Ukraine, on Saturday, May 7, 2022, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. AFP PHOTO ZAPORIZHZHIA: All vulnerable civilians have been evacuated from the Azovstal steelworks holdout in Mariupol, Ukraine said Saturday (Sunday in Manila), presaging a showdown between…

Mother and daughter reunite after 80 yearsGerda Cole reunited with her daughter Sonya Grist in Toronto on Saturday, which just so happened to be Cole's 98th birthday. As an 18-year-old Jewish refugee during the height of the Second World War, Gerda Cole gave her newborn daughter up for adoption — and…

Stanley and Loretta Hilchey were on their way home from church on Mother's Day 1945 when they noticed someone on the veranda of their west-end Halifax home. It was May 13, just six days after the city erupted into a two-day celebration that turned sour after Germany surrendered during the Second World War. More than…

Home PS4 FPS Call Of Duty: Vanguard (Image credit: Activision) Call of Duty: Vanguard underperformed for Activision, and the publisher reckons that's partly because some people just don't care about World War 2. In its 2021 annual financial report (opens in new tab) (spotted by Kotaku (opens in new tab)),…

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Today, Canadians from coast to coast to coast will commemorate the 77th anniversary of the end of action in the Battle of the Atlantic and the sacrifices of the thousands of Canadians who fought valiantly from 1939-1945 during the longest campaign of the Second World War. May 1, 2022 –…