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  Library of Congress / Federal Research Division / Country Studies / Area Handbook Series / Soviet Union / Appendix C
The Soviet Union claimed that the creation of the Warsaw Pact was in direct response to the inclusion of the Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany) in NATO in 1955.
The Soviet Union was unable to conceal the fact that the alliance served as the ultimate mechanism for its control of Eastern Europe.
The Soviet Union resorted to occasional propaganda offensives, accusing West Germany of revanchism and aggressive intentions in Eastern Europe, to remind its allies of their ultimate dependence on Soviet protection and to reinforce the Warsaw Pact's cohesion against the attraction of good relations with the West.
memory.loc.gov /frd/cs/soviet_union/su_appnc.html   (6968 words)

  
  Maps WWII Eastern Front 1943-1945
The constant military pressure on the southern front led to a serious German intelligence failure in the summer of 1944.
Soviet armed forces along the Oder and Neisse built-up continuously from the completion of the conquest of Polish territory in January.
Soviet armies complete the encirclement of Berlin and continued to press the attack into the city of Berlin.
www.onwar.com /maps/wwii/eastfront2/index2.htm   (351 words)

  
 Soviet Military Power - 1984
Soviet ballistic missiles, rockets, nuclear-capable aircraft and artillery could all be employed in a massed strike against a set of targets beginning at the battle line and extending to the depth of the theater.
Soviet air forces in the Western TVD have by far the highest percentage of modern aircraft - over 90 percent of their inventory - because the Soviets perceive that this TVD faces the strongest enemy and the most dense and complicated target array.
Soviet combat helicopters are among the most heavily armed in the world - the Mi-24/HIND E and MI-8/HIP E attack helicopters and the MI-8/HIP C and Mi-17/HIP H assault helicopters offer Soviet commanders a considerable degree of flexibility in the application of intense firepower.
www.fas.org /irp/dia/product/smp_84_ch3.htm   (7890 words)

  
 Soviet Military Power - 1983
To further this aim, the Soviets' policy is to modernize and strengthen their military capabilities, promote dependence upon the USSR, expand ties with sympathetic pro-Soviet elements, orchestrate anti-Western propaganda and obtain access to strategic port and air facilities in the nations of the Indian Ocean basin.
The Soviets' political goals are to improve relations with the PRC at the expense of US/PRC ties, to prevent Japan from increasing its contribution to Western security, to unify Korea under communist rule, and to expand Soviet influence in Southeast Asia.
Soviet forces in the Western Theater are those that pose the most direct threat to NATO and encompass all forces located primarily in the Western USSR and Eastern Europe.
www.fas.org /irp/dia/product/smp_83_ch3.htm   (1349 words)

  
 Shattered World - A Worse World War : Part 45
Further south Soviet forces are probing into the mountains of the central Caucasus where the third axis line of defense, and its well-entrenched German divisions, quickly repulses several hasty Soviet attacks.
The Soviets have been forced to halt their advance as they consolidate their hold over the northern Caucuses and bring forward reserves for what they expect to be an exceptionally bloody effort to crack the mountain defenses of the Germans and Turks.
Soviet reserve forces are massing in Tula for a push south to blunt the German counter-offensive.
www.geocities.com /cypher_zzz/shattered/part45.htm   (5669 words)

  
 The Nazi-Soviet Pact   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
On June 15 the Soviet chargé d'affaires in Berlin passed on a message to the Nazis that the Soviet Union was trying to decide whether to conclude the pact with the British and French, drag out negotiations further, or undertake a rapprochement with Germany.
The foreign reaction to the Nazi-Soviet Pact and the annihilation of Poland was one of shock and rage.
Evidently the Soviets were still thinking in terms of better relations with the Nazis, deliveries to whom were maintained with scrupulous fidelity throughout the period of the pact, as well as with Hitler's Japanese allies.
mars.wnec.edu /~grempel/courses/stalin/lectures/NaziSoviet.html   (2271 words)

  
 Soviet Southern Front - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This sense of the term is not identical with the more general usage of military front which indicates a geographic area in wartime, although a Soviet Front may operate within designated boundaries.
The Front received additional forces from the (disbanded) Southwestern Front on July 12, 1942 and was formally disbanded on July 28, 1942, with the forces transferred to the North Caucasus Front.
Southern Front was renamed the 4th Ukrainian Front on October 20, 1943.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Soviet_Southern_Front   (401 words)

  
 Leon Trotsky: 1920 - How The Revolution Armed/Volume III (Wrangel's Landing)
There is no need to explain to you the reports in the foreign press of Wrangel’s capture of Yekaterinodar and Novorossiisk, of the rallying of the Don and Kuban Cossacks to him, and of the evacuation of Baku by Soviet units – all of that is so much invention, from beginning to end.
But this does not prevent me from mentioning that the stupidity of this invention is capable of causing amazement even among us, people who are familiar enough with the maliciously senseless mendacity of the organs of bourgeois public opinion.
Soviet power is rooted ever more deeply in the Kuban, the Soviet apparatus is becoming ever stronger, grain-procurement is being carried out ever more systematically.
www.marxists.org /archive/trotsky/works/1920-mil/ch67.htm   (454 words)

  
 Soviet Bombing Raids
The Soviets were prepared, however, and intense AA fire and over 300 searchlights managed to disperse the raiders.
Although given a high priority, the Soviet raids were never intended to have carry the same weight as the RAF, RCAF and USAAF raids in the west.
It is kind of ironic that while the bombing of Germany's capital was left mainly to the airmen operating from southern England, it was the humble Soviet infantryman that dealt the city's final death blow, capturing it block by bloodily contested block.
zhukov.mitsi.com /sovietbombers.htm   (1969 words)

  
 Foreign Military Studies Office Publications - The Failures of Historiography: Forgotten Battles of the German-Soviet ...
Soviet historiography has not been universally bad, Western works have always existed which challenge the German view, and these works are now growing in number and their credibility is improving in the eyes of Western readers.
Soviet sources cover the period in greater detail, properly underscoring the importance of these combat phases in the ultimate outcome of battle on the approaches to Moscow.
Soviet historians highlight the confused ferocity of the Border Battles, the importance of the Battle of Smolensk, and the Herculean efforts of the Stavka to assemble, amass, and commit to combat those strategic reserves which, at the gates of Leningrad, Moscow, and Rostov, ultimately thwart the German Barbarossa offensive.
fmso.leavenworth.army.mil /documents/failures.htm   (10120 words)

  
 Leon Trotsky: 1919 - How The Revolution Armed/Volume II (The Causes of the Defeats)
The defeats we have suffered on the Southern front are very important: the temporary loss of Riga and Vilna is far from having, from the military standpoint, such importance as the loss of Tsaritsyn, Novokhopersk, Kharkov and Yekaterinoslav.
The truth is precisely the contrary: If the weakened Southern front has not collapsed, but has retained its cadres, this is precisely because it had been properly organised.
Only thanks to this is it that the Southern front is now able to absorb into its framework tens and hundreds of thousands of fresh fighters, who will deal a mortal blow to the White Guards.
www.marxists.org /archive/trotsky/1919/military/ch62.htm   (1295 words)

  
 Soviet P-39 Aces
Thanks to James Gebhardt, translator of Attack of the Airacobras: Soviet Aces, American P-39s, and the Air War Against Germany, the actual use of the Bell P-39 by the Soviets can be summarized here.
A leading Soviet ace and CO of the 9th GFD, Pokryshkin changed Soviet fighter tactics - quite an accomplishment in the rigidly-controlled Stalinist forces.
By the way, Gulaev was the number 3 Soviet ace with 57 individual and 3 shared kills by war's end.
www.acepilots.com /planes/soviet_p39_airacobra.html   (823 words)

  
 Leon Trotsky: 1919 - How The Revolution Armed/Volume II (Southern Front, Pull Yourself Together)
Commanders and commissars pull themselves and their units together, and the rear comes to the aid of the front with feverish activity: the armies rally and quickly go over to the offensive.
All this is at present applicable to the Southern front.
A tour of the armies on this front has convinced me, without leaving the slightest doubt, that the chief burden of responsibility for the recent hitch and the partial setbacks on the Southern front lies with the organisational apparatus of the front itself.
www.marxists.org /archive/trotsky/1919/military/ch46.htm   (633 words)

  
 Telegram to The Soviet Government Of The Ukraine And the General Headquarters of the Southern Front   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Telegram to The Soviet Government Of The Ukraine And the General Headquarters of the Southern Front
And the General Headquarters of the Southern Front
The greatest prudence should be exercised in introducing innovations, and the possibility of achieving what is being undertaken should be triple-checked.
www.marxists.org /archive/lenin/works/1920/oct/16.htm   (142 words)

  
 Front (Soviet Army) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
During the Battle of Kursk the Front consisted of the 11th, 3rd, 4th Tank, 61st, and 63rd Armies.
Kalinin Front - the Kalinin Front was formally established by Stavka directive on 17 October 1941, and allocated three armies - 22nd, 29th and 30th.
Southern Front - renamed 4th Ukrainian Front 20 October 1943.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Front_(Soviet_Army)   (642 words)

  
 Aberjona Press: Slaughterhouse: The Handbook of the Eastern Front
It was during this period that some of the greatest Soviet wartime military failures received remarkable public airing, including the Kharkov disaster of May 1942 (covered by Bagramian and Moskalenko) and the Donbas and Kharkov defeats of February– March 1943 (covered by Morozov and Kazakov).
Total Soviet losses in the operation are unknown, but those recorded in German reports were high (an estimated 15,000 dead in Konev’s sector alone, and 1,655 tanks destroyed from 24 November to 14 December) and included four general officers.
Thereafter, Soviet accounts focus on their successful and spectacular advance into the Ukraine, commencing with the Zhitornir-Berdichev operation in December 1943 and culminating with their encirclement of the German 1st Panzer Army during the Proskurov-Chernovits operation and the arrival of Soviet forces along the borders of Romania and southern Poland in April.
www.aberjonapress.com /catalog/slh/excerpt.html   (8874 words)

  
 The Southern Front
The food supply at the front is entirely in the hands of the Army Food Commission of the Supreme Revolutionary Military Council of the Republic.
Agitation at the front, Comrade Stalin said, is carried on through the newspapers Soldat Revolutsii(1) and Borba,(2) and through pamphlets, leaflets, etc. The troops are cheerful and confident.
The recent decree of the Central Executive Committee introducing incentives for heroic action on the part of individual Red Army men and whole units, in the shape of special insignia for the former and standards for the latter, is a measure of great importance, said Comrade Stalin.
www.marxists.org /reference/archive/stalin/works/1918/09/21.htm   (506 words)

  
 MiG-3s in summer 1941
Five new regiments were staffed by test pilots, on initiative of the Hero of the Soviet Union Stepan Suprun; such elite units should try to regain air superiority, and give to other pilots examples of how to use new fighters.
The 401 IAP was based on the airport of Zubovo near Smolensk, on the Western Front, and was employed on intensive ground attack, reconaissance and air combat at low or medium altitude, shooting down 8 enemy aircrafts on July 2 and 3.
Another regiment able to fly well the MiG-3 was the 55 IAP on the Southern Front; it was the unit of the future Hero of the Soviet Union Alexander Pokryshkin, that obtained his first 12 victories on a MiG-3; of these, 5 were on Bf-109E of Jagdgeschwader 77.
mig3.sovietwarplanes.com /mig3/summer.html   (1466 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Fallen Soviet Generals: Soviet General Officers Killed in Battle, 1941-1945 (Cass Series on Soviet Military ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
The Nature of the Operations of Modern Armies (Cass Series on the Soviet Study of War, 5) by V Triandafillov in Front Matter, and Back Matter
Captured Soviet Generals: The Fate of Soviet Generals Captured in Combat 1941-45 (Soviet Military Institute) by A.A. Maslov in Front Matter
Many of the stories are interesting, especially the engineer General who was hanged and hosed with water in the sub zero temperatures, subsequently freezing to death.
www.amazon.com /Fallen-Soviet-Generals-1941-1945-Institutions/dp/071464790X   (952 words)

  
 International Herald Tribune - World News, Analysis, and Global Opinions
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www.iht.com   (1093 words)

  
 Symposium: The Southern Front
’s Southern Front with us today, we are joined by a distinguished panel of experts.
Fontova: Castro is sitting prettier right now than he has since 1990, when his Soviet patrons collapsed.
After the Soviet collapse in 1991, Castro had to retreat and conserve resources just to maintain the regime.
www.frontpagemag.com /articles/Printable.asp?ID=20886   (2876 words)

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