Consider both of yourselves muted and ignored. I have zero interest in engaging with either of you. I’m not a moderator but if I was I would ban...
[IMG] Semyon Budyonny was born on April 25, 1883 near Salsk, a town in the Rostov Oblast of Russia. He grew up in an ethnic enclave of the Don...
IWD: I'm not even going to bother with a detailed post to your points because your denial of the Siege of Leningrad as "anything special" just...
Green Slime: TIK repeats a lot of what House himself says and even links to the House video from his YouTube video. TIK is also citing actual...
[IMG] Between June 1941 and March 1943, most of the residents of Leningrad evacuated the city. The city had a population of around three million...
OK, let me perfectly clear from the jump: I am not here to debate on behalf of Jonathan House, a professor emeritus of military history at the...
I don't like line-by-line Internet debates, so I'll just try to tackle the substantial points: Stalin: Yes, he certainly demonstrated a history...
These arguments amount to "whatabout-ism," which is ironically the very tactic the Soviet Union used against the U.S. in the Cold War. Whenever...
Memoirs of German generals are also typically evasive about the “Commissar Order,” a dictate issued by the German high command in June 1941 before...
War Crimes: The “Clean Wehrmacht” & “Clean Waffen-SS” Myths [IMG] [IMG] [IMG] In Western popular culture, the European theater of World War II...
First Battle of Smolensk: August 1941 [IMG] After the outbreak of the German-Soviet war on June 22, 1941, the Wehrmacht (German military)...
I don't know about Baltic resistance but there was deep collaboration with the Nazis throughout the Baltic countries. All of them to varying...
Operation Barbarossa: First Stage Operation Barbarossa began at 0300 hours on June 22, 1941 with Luftwaffe (German air force) squadrons bombing...
Vladimir’s father would have said God had a plan. God would make events unfold according to His will, and therefore, it was best to trust in...
Huddled behind the brick wall that had once been part of a power station, the commander of the 42nd Guards Rifle Regiment, First Lieutenant...
Sergeant Maxim Morozov dove against a mound of dirt, hugging the earth like a dear and long-lost lover. Around him, many other men did the same....
Background Info: This is a story about the 13th Guards Rifle Division which distinguished itself at the Battle of Stalingrad, one of the major...
None of the countries involved in WWII were run by angels, sad to say... The British Empire was an empire after all, the U.S. intervened in Latin...
Again, I don't think you can talk about either the Winter War or the Continuation War without also discussing the Civil War of 1918 to understand...
[IMG] “In spite of their own cold winters, Red Army troops had not been trained to fight in the deep snow, and many were unnerved when Finnish...
