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It’s Too Early To Forgive Vlasov

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By Valeria Korchagina and Andrei Zolotov Jr. Staff Writer MOSCOW – Mention the name Vlasov to an ordinary Russian and one word will pop into mind: traitor. Ask whether history should smile down on Lieutenant General Andrei Vlasov, the Soviet commander who defected to the Germans in World War II, and the ground would be laid for hours of heated…

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THE RUSSIAN OGRE

Prince Grigory Aleksandrovich Potemkin-Tauricheski (1739-1791) The British Foreign Office had perhaps unrivalled powers of analysis and intelligence at the time – its detached view of the European theatre was the best anywhere on the continent. The trouble was that this calculated objectivity was always designed to lead to a single…

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Film: We Were Soldiers (2002)

Synopsis We Were Soldiers is an American war film that dramatizes the Battle of Ia Drang in November 1965, during the Vietnam War. Directed by Randall Wallace and starring Mel Gibson, the film is based on the book We Were Soldiers Once … And Young (1992) by Lieutenant General (Ret.)…

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The Soviet Black Sea Navy

Black Sea Fleet Sinking 1918 On April 23, 1918 in the face of a threat of the Crimea seizure by the German troops the RSFSR Council of People’s Commissars (CPC) issued an order on relocation of the Black Sea fleet from Sevastopol to Novorossiysk. The Central Committee of the Black…

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Warship Wednesday Aug 26, 2020: Hazard Pay — laststandonzombieisland

Here at LSOZI, we are going to take off every Wednesday for a look at the old steam/diesel navies of the 1833-1946 time period and will profile a different ship each week. These ships have a life, a tale all their own, which sometimes takes them to the strangest places.-…

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Rearming Austria: WWII weapons

An excellent article on a little known subject. wwiiafterwwii It is often forgotten today that, like defeated Germany, Austria was split up into four occupation zones after WWII. Just like Berlin in Germany, the capital Vienna was split up four ways as well. When the country reunified in 1955, it’s…

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Early US Amphibious Landings I

Colonel Robert W. Huntington USMC While Colonel Robert W. Huntington had been long since retired when Marines carried out a series of maneuvers later dubbed “Advanced Base Force” exercises from 1903 to 1907, his landing at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, during the War with Spain in 1898 laid the foundation for…

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The History of the Galley

The history of medieval naval warfare is the history of the galley. Since ancient times,…

Lost and Forgotten United States Navy Heroes

About sixteen miles to the east, Wilkes had seen a beautiful islet that he judged…

The Great Northern War (1700-21)

Poland-Lithuanian Commonwealth The Great Northern War (1700-21), which marked Russia’s decisive bid for power against…

Early Warfare in Mesopotamia

By 4000 BCE most researchers believe Sumerian polities had fully formed warfare replete with military…