The Soviet soldier never saw him. Neither did the one after that, or the next, or the hundreds who followed. Simo Häyhä ...
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Evolution of Soviet & Russian army uniforms

We explored the fascinating evolution of Soviet and Russian army uniforms - from the early Red Army days to modern military ...
In “November 1942,” Peter Englund pieces together a month in the Second World War with the diaries and memoirs of the people who survived it. By Caroline Alexander The Soviet military often used ...
On Nov. 7, 1944, that convergence produced the only acknowledged direct combat between American and Soviet forces in World ...
Let us paint the scene for you. The day is September 1st, 1939, in the Soviet Union, and you're a middle-management engineer working at the Kharkiv Locomotive Factory in Ukraine. While a particular ...
Following years of heated debates, authorities in Bulgaria began dismantling a monument to the army of the Soviet Union that dominated the skyline of the capital and was widely seen as a symbol of ...
THE TAIWAN STRAIT, SEPTEMBER 24, 1958. Nine years after the end of the Chinese Civil War, when the island of Taiwan officially became the sovereign Republic of China, its air force squared off in a ...