On May 22, 2020, a post by X user @Dr_TheHistories claimed to show the same Soviet soldier before and after serving in World War II. The post consisted of two photos stitched together into one ...

One informative and authoritative Russian-language source we consulted is a May 7, 2019, article published by Russian newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda. The article includes an interview with Kobytev ...

The photos used in the meme originally went viral — without the joking commentary — in May 2020, when, as Know Your Meme explains, they were posted on the Russian news aggregator site Zen.

Other months show images reminiscent of WWII and Russian soldiers with monkeys and cats, as well as, soldiers comforting women and children. FSB is the KGB’s successor, which Putin is rumored to ...

That soldier later was killed and the dog tags were retrieved, leading the Americans to believe Beyrle had died. Beyrle was very much alive, but he endured unimaginable cruelty.

A captured Russian soldier, given the callsign "Silver", said that he signed up to fight in Ukraine so that he could defect to the Freedom of Russia Legion.