World War II
In the collective consciousness, the summer of 1941 is inextricably linked with images of the Luftwaffe’s devastating strikes against Soviet airfields, burning ...
Danila Karpenko
The Munich Agreement and Surrender Without a Fight March 1939. The warehouses held 1.2 million rifles, 50,000 machine guns, 424 tanks, and ...
In October 1941, near Orel, four Soviet T-34 tanks engaged the superior forces of the Wehrmacht’s 2nd Panzer Army. The result: 15 German tanks destroyed in a ...
The defeated Third Reich lay in ruins, but the fighting did not end there. After the document on complete and unconditional surrender was signed, tens of ...
The summer of 1941 was the most difficult period for our people during World War II—entire armies were trapped in encirclements, cities were lost daily, troops ...
This was one of the last instances in world military history when the outcome of a battle was decided by a genuine cavalry charge with sabers drawn. And it did ...
On August 5, 1943, the Red Army liberated Oryol. That same day, Moscow fired the first salute of the war. And on the outskirts of the city, near the train ...
Some vehicles make sense the moment you look at them. A car has four wheels, a tank has two tracks, and a motorcycle has two wheels. The German Sd.Kfz.2 ...
An event that looks almost unbelievable from the standpoint of armored warfare history has taken place on the Baltic Spit in Russia’s Kaliningrad Region. ...
In the Soviet Union, the Soviet-German phase of World War II began with a preemptive German deployment and a swift offensive that destroyed a significant ...