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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...

Hitler wanted to wipe the city off the face of the Earth. Heres What You Need to Remember: It took another year—until January 27, 1944—before the Leningrad-Novgorod Strategic Offensive finally ended the Germans’ iron grip on the city. Some estimates say that as many as 1,500,000 citizens of Leningrad died of starvation, disease, and German bombardment during the 872 days of siege. Leningrad was the sacred city of Soviet Communism.  The port city on the Neva River, 400 miles northwest of...

Article content North America isn’t just in the middle of a cold snap, it’s in the middle of one of the largest polar vortexes in a generation. Famously hot areas are being plunged into Arctic conditions, famously cold areas are breaking century-old temperature records, and virtually no piece of the continent is being spared. Below, a portrait of just how spectacular the cold is right now. Every single piece of Canada was frozen for one of the only times in history We apologize, but this v...

Why Russia’s Type 49 ‘Burp Gun’ Was a Communist’s Weapon of Choice Submachine guns began to appear near the end of World War I to help soldiers clear out trenches in brutal short-range assaults. Heres What You Need to Remember: Communist troops would infiltrate close to UN positions under the cover of night—then surged forward in a human wave only visible at short range. While many attackers fell to defensive fire, once the shock troops flooded into the UN outposts, their burp guns h...

Estonia commemorates the Tartu Peace Treaty By On 2 February, Estonia commemorates the Tartu Peace Treaty that ended the Estonian War of Independence, established the country’s eastern border and obligated Soviet Russia to recognise Estonian independence – the fact the Soviet Union ignored only 20 years later. The Tartu Peace Treaty, signed on 2 February 1920, was the treaty that ended the Estonian War of Independence that had started in November 1918, a few months after Estonia had dec...

Onthebrink The AVS-36 was Soviet Russia’s attempt at a fully-automatic service rifle, and it was a total flop. Though the AVS-36 had a high magazine capacity and was relatively lightweight, it was also virtually uncontrollable during fully-automatic firing. The History One of the Soviet Union’s first select-fire rifles, the AVS-36, is relatively unknown. It was designed by the notable Soviet firearms designer, Sergei Gavrilovich Simonov. While some of Simonov’s weapon designs like the...

Survivors of the siege on the city tell their miraculous stories. Heres What You Need to Know: The great siege and the sacrifice of the people who suffered and died will always be remembered—even as the number of survivors continues to dwindle. Georgina’s mother sat next to me at her dining room table. She and her husband were veterans of the Great Patriotic War, and back in 1996 we all sat about the table on Victory Day and talked about the siege. The old woman grasped my arm and talked i...

In first full day in office, Biden tackles multiple crises Ashley Parker and Matt Viser, The Washington Post Jan. 21, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail The concurrent nature of the crises that President Biden is facing - a health crisis that snowballed into an economic one before colliding with a social one - has few parallels in modern history. Above, the Bidens attend an inaugural prayer service at the White House.Washington Post photo by Jabin Botsford WASHINGTON - President Joe Biden raced Thursda...

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...

It is a classic showdown between Axis and Allies. There is no denying that the United States military’s M1 Garand was truly the best of the main battle rifles used in the Second World War. Whereas the other powers largely relied on bolt action rifles that were essentially little improved versions of what had been carried in the trenches of World War I, the American soldier and marine had some semi-automatic firepower. Yet the M1 Garand wasn’t the only semi-automatic weapon employed in the w...