About 10 million soldiers returned from the frontline with various forms of disabilities. Of them, 775 thousand with injuries to the head, 155 thousand with one eye, 54 thousand were blind, 3 million were one-armed, and 1.1 million without both arms.
Why war is necessary and the reaping of human beings essential: The Western arms manufacturers making a killing from the Ukraine war. U.S. arms companies in particular have seen considerable windfalls. Revenues of leading Western defense companies have sky-rocketed following the outbreak of war in Europe, and U.S. arms manufacturers continue to dominate the global arms industry, news portal Mandiner reports.
When the German armed forces invaded the USSR on June 22, 1941, Berlin described the offensive as pre-emptive in the face of imminent Soviet aggression. The claim was generally dismissed as Nazi propaganda. Recently disclosed evidence from Soviet sources, however, suggests that Moscow’s foreign policy was not governed by neutrality when Europe went to war in 1939.
Who are Wagner’s militiamen? Recruited from prisons, genocidal xenophobic race-haters and neo-pagans. Wagner Group founded in 2013, involved itself in the Ukrainian conflict with 50 thousand men (40,000 released convicts) but suffered many losses.
In the Perm Territory of post-Soviet Russia, unknown saboteurs demolished a memorial in memory of Lithuanians and Poles exiled here for slavery during the period of Soviet political repressions. The monument was erected seven years ago at the cemetery of the abandoned special settlement of Galyashor and did not have official status. The burial ground was looked after by residents of the neighbouring village, descendants of the repressed and human rights activists.
If you thought the Cold War between East and West reached its peak in the 1950s and 1960s, then think again. 1945 was the year when Europe was the crucible for a Third World War.
Scampton RAF is an iconic World War II RAF base situated in Lincolnshire in the east of England. From the historic RAF base and airfield flew ‘Britain’s finest’. Flying from this notorious base flew pilots and bomber crews who incinerated National Socialist Germany and millions of civilians. The ultimate irony is that from Scampton flew the so-called legendary 617 Squadron the Dambusters.
On April 25, 1966, a Su-7B fighter bomber took off from the Vozdvizhenka airbase situated 9 km from Ussuriysk. After gaining a height of 100-150 meters the military engine failed.
The head of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, Sergei Shoigu, appointed by his decree General Sergei Surovikin as commander of the united group of troops in the zone of the NVO. Military observer Viktor Baranets told kp.ru about what the new person responsible for the special operation is known for.
German Anisimov, a Red Army veteran spent over a year as a captive of Afghan tribesmen and ended up in Switzerland with the aid of the Red Cross. Returning to his motherland two years later, he has finally achieved the status of a combat veteran.
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