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‘our militaries are still structured to fight an industrial battle against a nonexistent Soviet enemy, and the political-military way of thinking about using force is still based on m...
...uth Africa. they invited the guy who invented the famous AK-47 assult rifle to the show. according to the soviet legend, this guy (i forget his his name, the the rifle itself was named after him, so h...
Does anyone know how Hitler's invasion of the Soviet Union (Operation Barbarossa) was announced?
That is, what I am interested in is how (and when) was the announcement made to the Germans and the
...r reading your endless and senseless debate over which front is more important than the other. yes it was soviet russia who bear the most burden of the fighting and yes they would probably beat nazi g...
...e it better than anything the Allies had because it was easier to coordinate on a battlefield.
Now, the Soviets are reputed to have disputed that the Panzer III was the best the Germans had to offer...
... 60 divisions on the Western front, while the Hitler command maintained 259 divisions and brigades on the Soviet-German front...'
Are these numbers accurate?
Is it the battle of Stalingrad that wa...
Their terms were the logical, 'low altitude' terms. I have never ever found a fighter in WW2 that did NOT need to descend below 5,000 feet at at least two points in it's flight (being takeoff and land
.... My question: Were the Brits worried at all about the 'secrets' of their weapons being discovered by the Soviets? Was the defeat of the Germans deemed more important than any potential weaknesses/str...
...ions in a war against the United States and Great Britain in 1945. During March, April, and May 1945, the Soviet armed forces treated American prisoners of war liberated from German prisoner of war ca...
Many years ago I read somewhere that Allied soldiers were kept in Soviet prison camps during the war (for what reasons I don't know) and some were kept prisoner for many years AFTER the war was over!
...omb days earlier and was able to reply that we should use it if we have it.
My friend contends that the Soviets knew nothing of the bomb and that my story is a load of bunk. Can anyone help me confi...
...r the last few years that indicate he did in fact die in Berlin.
After the collapse of communism in the Soviet Union, apparently some previously regarded 'secret files' of the Soviet government disc...
There were two major Soviet artillery designers who worked for tank industry: F.F. Petrov and V.G.Grabin. Both designed 85 mm tank cannons (as well as 76.2, 107 and 100 mm). Petrov designed antitank S
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My question to you all is, does anyone have particulars on the French, British, German, Polish and Soviet uses of poison gas as listed above?
By the way, no mention was made of the alleged us...
It is now known that Stalin was a horrible leader of the Soviet Union, killing off millions of his own citizens. He killed off a legion of army leaders as well as many intelligent capable citizens who
Hi, I have read somewhere of Russian patriotic songs being played for frontline Soviet troops in preparation of a fight, or even during a fight, to boost their morale.
Unfortunately I do not remembe
Ahh, the slow and underarmed I-16s.. an interesting comment on the necessity
of heavy armament versus the Luftwaffe has just come to my attention : 'even against the Junkers 88, the toughest bomber
...rozheykin, Yevstigneyev, Glinka, Klubov). In battles over Kuban - a time period of only 2 months - eleven Soviet fighter pilots achieved more than _ten_ kills. In fact, B.B.Glinka achieved ten kills i...
...ovs hands by sending his whole Panzer Group south, and leaving AGC to be chewed up by heavier and heavier Soviet counter attacks around the Yelnia salient. The final nail in the Germans coffin was the...
SS because:
Where do I start?
The Soviets had a 'non-aggression pact' with Germany from Sept. 1939 to June 1941. During this time, Germany and the USSR cooperated with each other. Germany attacked
I wonder what the Soviet view used to be, on the relation between events before and after June 1941. Did the Soviets think of their invasions of Poland, Finnland, etc. as part of the Great Patriotic W
how was the D-day used in soviet propaganda. I know the Russians had been 'nagging' about an 2'nd front in 41/42 to take the preasure of
No way. Japan beats the Soviet Union any day of the week. First, the Thought Police (actually Ministry of Home Affairs) had help in the form of lots of army and navy officers who do random killings of
...r we can believe a criminal such as Solzhenitsyn. He _was_ in confinement for reasons, most probably anti-Soviet reasons, so he would probably exaggerate the figures. The reasons I find these ratios i...
I have read about the operation Barbarossa (Germany invades Russia). The German victories in the beginning of the Russia-campaign were overwhelming.
Some historians presume that the Russians were su
...D-Day coverage, newspapers and magazines articles listed civilian casualties of people from U.K.; France; Soviet Union; Germany; Italy; etc but nothing on the U.S. which were mostly N/A or -. Any civi...
I was wondering whether the Soviet spy in the German High Command was ever identified. It was he who allegedly game away the plans for the attack at Kursk or is this just another myth ?
Cliff Kenned
...after Germany attacked that country in June 1941? After all, they were members of the Axis. Japan and the Soviet Union certainly did not have good relations at the time, having had several border skir...
Which places in the former Soviet Union do one find the most WWII museums and the like? Volgograd? Skt. Petersburg? Kursk??
How is it commonly referred to ?
I tried googling for operation 'Star' and 'Gallop' and found pretty much
...if surviving the war, would have imploded, perhaps after a 'cold war' period toward democracy just as the Soviet Union has done. =We would have saved 370,000 plus lives and countless resources. =We wo...
i seem to recall reading that the Soviets would routinely disinter German war dead and rebury them in mass unmarked graves
any truth to this ??
...rd of the U.S. Paratrooper who landed in Normandy, was captured and escaped to the east and fought with a soviet Tank brigade before being wounded and given a pass to go to the US embessey and finally...
...r, the Japanese government rejected them until after the Hiroshima bombing, the Nagasaki bombing, and the Soviet entry into the war.
Have you read the declaration? It demanded the unconditional *mil...
Anyone know of any sources of info. on Soviet Rifles used in the war, esp. the Mosin Nagant 91-30, & Mosin Nagant M44? I'm looking for anything available, so any and all help would be appreciated. -Th
...posted a follow up saying we shouldn't particularly trust v.M., especially as regards his analysis of the soviets. i got out my copy of the book last night so i could make my point :)
v.M. does make...
It seems this is a mix-up of several separate actions.
The Soviets had two old battleships in the Baltic: the Oktyabrskaya Revoluciya and the Marat. These were used to give gunfire support to Soviet
...For example , who can say that the IT troops have performed bad on the Don River in Dec42/Jan43? When the soviet offensive begun , they resisted on the river for many days, while the russian tank divi...
...n late August 1942. I can find no information as to what she did there and she was quickly withdrawn when Soviet counterattacks began to threaten her.
My question to all is, does anyone have any inf...
The majority of those who looked at evidence from the Russian archives say no, the Soviet Union was not planning an immediate attack on Germany. But even if it was this was not an excuse for the Germa
Why is it often assumed that Germany would have defeated the Soviet Union if Moscow would have fallen to the Nazis?
This would still have left a large portion of the Soviet Union that was NOT under
...e upon which this country was founded; government by consent. Americans bristled with repugnance when the Soviets crushed the independence movements of Hungary and Czechoslovakia, and watched in utter...
...ess engaging from the flanks. But alot of tank actions depended on crew quality.
*See Sharp Charles C. 'Soviet Order of Battle World War II' vol 2 George F Nafziger 1995.
**See Zaloga Steve. 'Sher...
...ame democratic countries as the result of the WWII. Unfortunately the U.S.A. approved the introduction of Soviet system in Eastern & Central Europe.
Jerzy Pankiewicz...
...pan.' It seems most posters agree that Germany and Japan had no interest in coordinating an attack on the Soviet Union.
But what were the basic advantages of the Berlin-Tokypo pact, if cordination w...
...tary alternative to outright surrender was to collapse the Western front and throw all forces against the Soviets.
The subsequent sequemce of events is a little murky, but I cannot see the Western A...
Were any of the leaders of the now defunct DDR involved in ant-nazi activity under Soviet guidance?
thanks
I am doing research on German POW's that were sent to Soviet labor camps after the war. I am particularly interested in survivor stories: when they were sent there, how long they stayed, how they surv
... about the righteousness of internal politics. However, the main point to note is that Nazi Germany - not Soviet Russia - began an aggressive war aimed at world domination. If this doesn't give the mo...
How was the USSR supplied with war material and other stuff? Through convoys to Murmansk I know.
But were there other means of access? Vladivostock seems unlikely due to its proximity to Japan. The
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