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Soviet Air Forces went on full-blown hunts chasing the German pilots that caused the Red Army most trouble.

On January 18, 1943, Soviet forces scored an important victory against Nazi German forces besieging the City of Lenin, finally breaching the blockade which had lasted for over two years.

(Archived document, may contain errors) 356 May 30, 1984 TEN STEPS TO COUNTER MOSCOW'S THREAT TO NORTHERN EUROPE INTRODUCTION Moscow has been escalatin g military and political pressures on northern Europe. In early April, the Soviet Northern Fleet conducted its largest maneuvers ever in the Norwegian Sea and North Atlantic as part of an aggressive show of force following NATO's deployhent of intermediat e-range nuclear forces in Europe.

False Neutrality: Sweden Helped Hitler and the Forest Brothers Fight the Soviet Union   The last official war between Sweden and Russia ended in 1809 and resulted Finland becoming part of the Russian Empire. However, the Swedes, while maintaining a de jure neutrality, de facto never missed a chance to fight against the Russians. A prime example would be Sweden taking part in World War 2, with the formally neutral Swedes actually supporting Nazi Germany and helping the Forest Brothers in the...

Stalin’s Baltic Fleet attempted to escape from Tallinn during the bleak days of summer 1941. Heres What You Need to Know: Events at Tallinn were comparable to the Allied evacuation of Dunkirk over a year earlier. Early in World War II, a bitter joke circulated within the Soviet military. It ran, “What is the first thing Russia does when war is declared? It scuttles the fleet!” The joke referred to sad events in Russian naval history. In 1855, after the Crimean War, Russia lost the right ...

Dreams of reopening Soviet submarine at Strood still afloat despite pandemic Published: 06:00, 01 February 2021 Looking for the perfect self isolation location? If the new strains of Covid keep growing more extreme then a U-475 Black Widow Soviet submarine could be the ideal retreat of choice. And as luck would have it theres one moored in the River Medway just off Strood, where it has been for almost two decades. The Black Widow submarine at Strood But the man in charge of it, John Sutton, rem...

All of the great powers were busily constructing battleships as the 1920s and 1930s went on. Key Point: Battleships were seen as the way to go if you wanted to be a serious naval power. However, the advent of aircraft carriers and their effectiveness during World War II meant the battleship era had to come to a close. The late 1930s promised a renewed era of battleship construction, similar in some ways to the bonanza that immediately followed the construction of the HMS Dreadnought. The “n...