Born and raised in Moscow.
I was born and raised in the USSR. I studied history in Russian school and was told of great sacrifice of Russian People. My grandfather went from...
Yes Sir, My point is that they got their new borders by waging aggressive war with their neighbors. If Japan was a peaceful nation like England...
The movie was very good. I can say even funny.:D
Before the war years Russians did work on heavy long distance aircraft. They even broke a number of endurance records. How ever their strategic...
Japan had no land borders as well. Every country that was planning to fight on its neighbor’s territory did not have well developed strategic air...
There was a lot of Jews who were leading revolutionaries in Russia. Hitler always referred to struggle against Bolshevik Jewry. Anti-Semitism has...
Most nations that planned aggression before the war did not develop strategic bomber forces. Only England and America did. Britain and USA did not...
Lenin said:"Quantity has a quality of its own."
I would like to thank everyone participating on this forum for their discussions and counter view points. I’m going to add one more item and then...
Unfortunately history shows that war is a good time to settle old scores. WW1 Turkey and Armenians and more recently Yugoslavia and Iraq come to mind.
The photo with the street sign: “THIS SIDE OF THE STREET IS MORE DANGEROUS DURING THE ARTILARY BARGE” really makes me reflect upon how tough it was.
The story about wrong bullets and old planes is a Soviet propaganda. There has been plenty of new material declassified that shows Red Army...
You are right, USA did not want war, but FDR wanted to help England.
American Congress and public had a strong antiwar stance.
I do not think Hitler would have declaired war at that time without Pearl Harbor.
By July 1941 Russian Army lost 11,700 tanks, 4,000 planes, 19,00 field guns. Every attempt in counter attack was beaten back. By September 1941...
US Congress would not have allowed Roosevelt to attack Japan in 1941. Us did everything in its power to corner Japan and to provoke it. Japanese...
With all these numbers stating Soviet military and industrial capacity, I believe that secret mobilization had already begun. One thing to...
I do not think Zhukov would have been as a successful commander in Western Allied Army. Allies generally cared about the casualty rate and ill...
