By signing the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk on March 3, 1918 the Soviet Russia gave up its territorial claims to the Baltic region, Ukraine, and other parts of Eastern Europe to formally end its participation in World War I. As previously stated in my second blog post, this allowed for the Bolshevik leadership to focus on … Continue reading Territory & WWII
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Literally the Only Time the US and the USSR Didn’t Hate Each Other
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Seemingly from the inception of the Soviet Union all the way to present day, the Soviet Union and every version of it that followed has been at odds with the United States. Communism and capitalism are functionally antithetical, and since the USSR and the United States respectively embody each system, it makes sense that there would …
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An Unorthodox Solution
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To the average Russian, it must have seemed in the summer of 1941 that their was no salvation from the Nazi tide to the West. Within the first month of Germany’s “Operation Barbarossa”, which takes overtones
Hero of the Soviet Union
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“None the less the greatest credit for victory in the war surely belongs to the Soviet population itself. It was the Soviet men and women who sowed the fields, operated the lathes, stormed enemy positions, and survived siege and occupation. They often did so with signal heroism under conditions of unspeakable deprivation”- William C. Fuller, … Continue reading Hero of the Soviet Union →
Modern System of Force Employment Explanation?
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Last week in class my group attempted to answer the below question: Why was the Soviet Union so ill-prepared for the conflict known as the “Great Fatherland War”? Our three most-likely explanations were: The Nazi-Soviet Pact Skill of the German Army The Purges It is because in all honesty I don’t know which of these …
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All is Fair in Love and War
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“Two Soldiers” During World War II, many things were changing, especially gender roles and the importance of romance in the lives of those on and off the battlefield. Because of the war, people were feeling the stress of not knowing if or when they would next see their loved ones. This desperation to find time … Continue reading All is Fair in Love and War →
Factory Evacuees
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What do you do when the Germans invade from the West? You move to the East and South. Something that … More
Episode 5: The Motherland Strikes Back
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It was a dark time for the Soviet Union. By the summer of 1942, the Nazi southern objective was the oil fields of Baku. If captured by the Germans, it would stop the flow of oil to the Red Army. Adolf Hitler, leader of the German Third Reich, sought a symbolic victory in the German […]
Religious Return
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Adolf Hitler’s Wehrmacht was unstoppable. Their operational and tactical levels in war were resilient- “the finest army in the world” (Freeze, 276) at the time. The Soviet Union was going to be easy to take, right? Wrong. Joseph Stalin was able to mobilize his people in a remarkable way. The centralization under Stalin’s dictatorship unified the […]
