Sowing the Wind: The First Soviet-German Military Pact and the Origins of World War II
Before dawn on June 22, 1941, German bombers began to rain destruction down on a swath of Soviet cities from Leningrad to Sevastopol. It was the beginning of Operation Barbarossa, the largest military operation in the history of the world.
Friday, July 6, 2018
Sowing the Wind: The First Soviet-German Military Pact and the Origins of World War II
Was the Russian Military a Steamroller? From World War II to Today
Was the Russian Military a Steamroller? From World War II to Today
Joseph Stalin supposedly claimed that " quantity has a quality all its own," justifying a cannon-fodder mentality and immense casualties. The problem is, Stalin never actually said that, but it fits our stereotype about the Russian military so neatly that everyone believes he did.
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