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German forces had broken through to the Caucasus, threatening to seize the Soviet Union’s largest oil fields. The loss of the “black blood” so vital for the war effort could have completely paralyzed the Red Army.

German forces had broken through to the Caucasus, threatening to seize the Soviet Union’s largest oil fields. The loss of the “black blood

HISTORY LESSONS FOR MR. PUTIN, The threat of a Russian invasion of Ukraine needs to be seen in the historical perspective, POLAND, KATYN WOODS, STALIN

On 23 October 1956, thousands of protestors gathered in Budapest to demand the withdrawal of Soviet troops from Hungary, setting off a revolt across the country. See how the Guardian reported events

Col. Gen. Paul Stumpff signs the surrender terms for the Luftwaffe, Germanys air force, early May 9, 1945, in Berlin. The combined chiefs of the German army, navy and air force signed the formal ratification of the Third Reichs unconditional surrender in Berlin before Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Tedder, representing Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, commander of all Allied forces, and Marshal Georgi Konstantinovich Zhukov, deputy commmander-in-chief of the Soviet Forces. The event took place two days...

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 ...

The offensive led to staggering losses for the Red Army. Heres What You Need to Know: The remains of some of the dead Red Army soldiers still turn up today. On February 23, 1942, Red Army Day, the People’s Commissar of Defense, Josef Stalin, issued Order No. 55. It read in part as follows: “But the enemy’s efforts have been in vain. The initiative now is in our hands and the futile attempts of Hitler’s out of tune, rusted machine are unable to withstand the pressure of the Red Army. Th...

Weeks of heavy fighting produced the first Red Army victory of the war on the Eastern Front. Heres What You Need to Know: Although Yelnya became nothing more than a footnote in the history of the war on the Eastern Front, it showed what a determined Red Army could accomplish. The smell of victory was in the air as the forces of Field Marshal Fedor von Bock’s Army Group Center continued to drive deep into the Ukraine during the final week of June 1941. To most of the young soldiers of the arm...

World War II History: How the Soviets Failed at "Operation Gallop" The combination of Soviet ambition and von Manstein’s brilliant handling of the battle culminated in a bloody defeat for the Red Army. The stage was now set for one of von Manstein’s greatest accomplishments—the recapture of Kharkov—which would take place in mid-March. As Adolf Hitler’s vaunted Sixth Army lay in its death throes in the ruins of Stalingrad, German forces to the west of the city faced their own kind of h...