A Brief History of the Soviet Deserters Who Aided Hitler
Hundreds of thousands of foreigners served in the Wehrmacht, most famously the Vlasov Army.
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Operation Barbarossa - Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union in WW2
This German-army failure to defeat Soviet forces marked a crucial turning point in the war. Patrick Mahomes Celebrated Travis Kelce’s Career Announcement With Perfect GIF Lester Holt to step ...
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The Soviet Fighter That Swarmed the Skies in WW2
According to the Allies, one of the most critical aspects of winning World War II was establishing air superiority ... with the highest production in the Soviet Union during WWII, with an ...
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Winter War - Soviet Invasion of Finland in WWII
In the freezing winter of 1939, the Soviet Union launched an invasion of Finland, expecting an easy victory. Instead, they encountered fierce resistance from outnumbered Finnish troops who used ...
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Boris Spassky, Soviet chess champion and Cold War symbol, dies at 88
Boris Spassky, a Soviet-era chess grand master who lost ... on Jan. 30, 1937. During World War II, he lived for several years in an orphanage, where he learned the rules of chess before he learned ...
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On This Day: Soviet Union expels dissident Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Lindbergh, Jr. File Photo by Library of Congress/UPI In 1945, thousands of Allied planes started bombing the German city of Dresden in World War II ... In 1974, the Soviet Union expelled dissident ...
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How the Philadelphia Museum of Art unearthed forgotten anti-Nazi posters
The Russian propaganda prints came from a studio that generated hundreds of thousands of them, and three copies will be part ...
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Boris Spassky, Soviet-era chess champion who lost "match of the century" to American Bobby Fischer, dies at 88
Boris Spassky, a Soviet-era world chess champion who lost ... with his family when it was besieged by the Nazis during World War II. After the war, his aggressive style of play without fear ...
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Former USSR chess grandmaster Boris Spassky dies at 88
Soviet chess grandmaster Boris Spassky ... Leningrad with his family when it was besieged by the Nazis during World War II. After the war, his aggressive style of play without fear of sacrifice ...