Showing posts with label Soviet Union. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Soviet Union. Show all posts
Friday, January 3, 2014

Myasishchev Mischief: The Bison and the Bomber Gap

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Barely a few years since the end of the Second World War, tensions are mounting between former allies as the United States and Soviet Union ...
Monday, August 12, 2013

Penetrating the Blockade: How Operation Vittles sustained an encircled City

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The year was 1945, Berlin much like the rest of Germany lay in a state of ruin. Her streets and buildings were pockmarked with the graf...
Sunday, August 4, 2013

Shturmovik Reborn: The Soviet Air Force and the Sukhoi Su-25

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With the success of the Ilyushin design Il-2 Bark and Il-10 Beast ground attack platforms employed against Nazi forces during the Great...
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Saturday, August 3, 2013

Violence in the East: Crushing the Workers Uprising of 1953

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Since its inception as an 'ideology of the people' communism stood as a deception of human rights. Communist party leaders wide...
Friday, August 2, 2013

Red Berlin? The Plan to Surrender West Berlin to the Soviet Union

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From the onset of the Cold War, Berlin would become a major focal point for any potential conflict in Germany. With allied troops from ...
Thursday, July 25, 2013

Conflict between Comrades: Tension along the Oder-Neisse Line

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Although the military forces of the German Democratic Republic were never deployed outside of East Germany's borders, they maintain...