UNITED24Media on Instagram: "On September 22, 1939, German and Soviet troops held a joint military parade in the occupied Polish town of Brest-Litovsk (today Brest, Belarus) to mark their coordinated invasion and division of Poland under the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact. The parade symbolized a brief and uneasy alliance between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union."

Terrifying History on Instagram: "On September 3, 2022, Vladimir Putin attended the funeral of Mikhail Gorbachev, the last leader of the Soviet Union, at Moscow’s Central Clinical Hospital. The ceremony was notably subdued and private, reflecting the complicated relationship between the Russian president and the man widely credited with ending the Cold War. Putin’s attendance was brief and solemn, lasting only about 15 minutes. He placed red roses on Gorbachev’s coffin but did not deliver any pu

Terrifying History on Instagram: "In 1953, a significant wave of German prisoners of war (POWs) began returning from Soviet captivity, marking the end of a brutal chapter of post-WWII history. These men had been held for up to eight years in the notoriously harsh Gulag system, where estimates suggest nearly 1 million of the 3 million German POWs sent to the USSR perished from starvation, disease, and forced labor. The returns coincided with Stalin’s death and subsequent Soviet policy shifts, wit