War has been raging in Europe years years now and Russia face Germany on the Eastern Front. Love springs up all over the world. Lovers meet knowing that this could be the only chance they have show their feelings. A culture of love for ones country and ones lover is being shown in songs and … Continue reading All’s Fair in Love and War →
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Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya is a Russian legend that encompasses the devotional life of wartime Russia. She was a partisan teenager, who was tortured and hanged by the Germans. Throughout all the torture she endured, she remained silent and revealed no information about the Russian army. As she stood upon the gallows she shouted to the onlooking […]
In Russia, World War II was known as the Great Patriotic War. Their war compared to the United States’ war or Britain’s war was vastly different. Rather than waging a war against evil or German domination, the Russian people waged a war for survival. On the Eastern front, the Soviet and Nazi armies fought on urban […]
World War Two was a tall task for the Soviets to overcome. After years of domestic turmoil with cultural, political, and economic change, the “New Russia” was put to test. This war (and Russia’s subsequent victory) meant a lot to…
The Great Patriotic War victory is one that is constantly on display in Moscow and other Russian cities. Between the many memorial park installations, the main museum in Moscow, and the newest war monument in St. Petersburg, people can feel a sense of Russian pride from the victory throughout the vast country. This Russian pride […]
The second world war was one of the most defining if not the single most defining event for the Russian people perhaps of all time. The Soviet Union was brutally attacked after the formation of a non-aggression pact with their invaders, the Germans. Hitler’s campaign was one aimed at annihilation and extermination rather than at […]
Read moreWaging a modern war requires many things, weapons, ammunition, vehicles, uniforms, supplies, and most of all, soldiers to fight. However, raising a standing military is expensive, and it takes away from the workforce that pays for all of the things needed for war. When the Soviet Union was on the march towards the Second World War … Continue reading Plowshares into Tractors, Swords into Tanks
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