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	Western Front (World War I) Encyclopedia Article @ Hostilities.org (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Allied armies in 1918 persuaded the German commanders that defeat was inevitable, and the government was forced to sue for conditions of an armistice.
		Aisne River and dug in there, establishing the beginnings of a static western front that was to last for the next three years.
		On the Entente side, the front was occupied by the armies of the allied countries in lengths according to their respective manpower.
	www.hostilities.org /encyclopedia/Western_Front_(World_War_I) (4402 words)

	Soviet Western Front - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Western Front was a Front (military subdivision) of the Soviet Army, one of the Soviet Army Fronts during the Second World War.
		The western boundary of the Front in June 1941 was 470 km long, from the southern border of Lithuania to the Pripyat River and the town of Vlodava.
		The Western Front was on the main axis of attack by the German Army Group Centre during Operation Barbarossa.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Soviet_Western_Front (1000 words)

	Military.com Content (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		In the wet snows of late November 1942, the Soviet army struck at the thinly manned German front lines north and south of the city on the river, surrounding the vital supply center and trapping its garrison while threatening to cut off and encircle an entire German army group.
		The Soviets struck first and far to the south, in a bend of the Don River on the flanks of the Sixth Army fighting in Stalingrad.
		The Soviet offensive began on November 24, with strong forces moving on Velikiye Luki from north and south, bypassing the screen of fortified positions in a semicircular arc east of the city.
	www.military.com /Content/MoreContent?file=PRsovietf (2186 words)

	The Battlefront Bookshelf: Soviet Armor Tactics Introduction
		The traditional view of the Soviet armor is huge masses of tanks blundering about the battlefield in columns of bunches or herd-like formations until they either roll over the opposition by sheer weight of metal or are shot up by smaller, expertly manoeuvring westerners.
		The real problem, especially for the technical arms of the Soviet Army, was that the purge was removing primarily staff-level officers: senior lieutenants, captains, majors, and lieutenant colonels, at the same time that the Red Army was increasing in size by 500 in 5 years.
		When these graduates went to the front 3-, 6-, or 9 months later, they were far better able to handle the basic staff and command tasks than the unfortunates standing in the way of Operation Barbarossa in 1941.
	www.battlefront.com /products/books/nafziger/sovietarmorintro.html (1258 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)

	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.
		Soviet leaders believed that the Warsaw Pact allies would be most likely to remain loyal if the Soviet armed forces engaged in a short, successful offensive operation against NATO while deploying NSWP forces defensively.
		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)

	Library of Congress / Federal Research Division / Country Studies / Area Handbook Series/ Soviet Union / Glossary
		Soviet and Western experts believe that damage to the people's health, to the economy, and to the environment will be felt for decades.
		Once the Soviet regime stipulated the plan figures, all levels of the economy, from individual enterprises to the national level, were obligated to meet those goals.
		The 7,000-kilometer railroad line, stretching from its western terminus at Chelyabinsk on the eastern slopes of the Ural Mountains to Vladivostok on the Pacific Ocean, was built between 1891 and 1916 to link the European part of Russia with Siberia and the Far East.
	memory.loc.gov /frd/cs/soviet_union/su_glos.html (9351 words)

	Magdeburg Sting 1936 - Part V
		On 15 May Soviet 15th Army attacked Polish positions near Ulla, and 16th Army crossed Berezina River between Borysów and Bobrujsk Polish forces in that area, preparing for offensive towards Zlobin, managed to push back the Soviet forces back into the river, but were unable to pursue their own planned offensive.
		The Soviet advance into Ukraine was characterized by mass killing of civilians and the burning of entire villages, especially by Budyonny's Cossacks, designed to instill a sense of fear in the Ukrainian population.
		Soviet forces under Golikov crossed Dniepr west of Czerniow cutting the rail communication in that region Soviet forces under Yakir captured the Bila Tserkva.
	www.minelinks.com /war/going_there.html (2062 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 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.
		Western historians have routinely blamed the Soviets for deliberately failing to assist the Poles, and in essence, aiding and abetting destruction of the Polish rebels by the German Army for political reasons.
	fmso.leavenworth.army.mil /documents/failures.htm (10120 words)

	WWII Axis Military History Day-by-Day: July
		July 2nd, 1941: On the extreme southern front in the East, troops of the German 11th (von Schobert) and the Rumanian 3rd (Dumitrescu) and 4th Rumanian (Ciuparea) Armies begin an offensive from Moldavia toward Vinnitsa and the Black Sea port of Odessa.
		July 3rd, 1944: In the East, 28 divisions of Heeresgruppe Mitte (Model) are encircled or destroyed by the Soviet 1st and 3rd Belorussian Fronts in the Minsk area.
		In the East, the Soviet 1st Belorussian Front recaptures Baranovichi NW of Brest-Litovsk.
	www.feldgrau.com /july.html (5456 words)

	The Karelian Isthmus front-line 13 March 1940
		Despite of the Soviet dominance in the air, the Soviet troops on the ice were attacked by strafing fighters and bombers, who made several sorties every day.
		The resulting Soviet bridgeheads in Vilaniemi and Häränpääniemi were contained by heroic efforts from a mixed variety of small sub-units (Groups Berg and Varko) and badly mauled regiments.
		In the Taipale area, all Soviet attacks were stopped throughout the war, although the Soviets had managed to push the defense line back a little.
	www.winterwar.com /Maps/Frontline3.htm (771 words)

	World War II
		Lend-Lease material was welcomed by the Soviet Union, and President Roosevelt attached the highest priority to using it to keep the Soviet Union in the war against Germany.
		The Soviet Union was annoyed at what seemed to it to be a long delay by the allies in opening a "second front" of the Allied offensive against Germany.
		One of the Soviet pilots who downed the B-29 reported that the aircraft was recovered from the sea, but the fate of the crew is unknown.
	www.ibiblio.org /expo/soviet.exhibit/wartime.html (686 words)

	The Soviet Air Forces in Winter War
		The Soviet fighters were mostly controlling the skies near the frontlines but they didn't accompany soviet bombers far behind Finnish lines.
		In January, the newly formed Northwestern front was strengthened by 15 extra Air Regiments, some 900 planes, and the air units of the Baltic Fleet sent their planes to bomb targets in the Isthmus and southern Finland.
		The Soviet fighters attacked everything they saw, buildings couldn't be heated in the day as the smoke draw immediate attention, and almost all movement had to done after sunset.
	www.winterwar.com /Numbers/SAF.htm (1766 words)

	Eastern Front Campaign - Caught in the Crossfire
		This front saw some of the largest and most brutal battles of the war resulting in a horrific loss of life.
		The Soviets had 166 divisions and 9 brigades on their western front when Barabrossa begins.
		Many aerial surveillance missions were sent over Soviet territory while the German diplomats assured Stalin that the troop movements and stockpiling were in preparation for the coming final battle with Britain.
	www.wizards.com /default.asp?x=ah/article/ah20051202d (1261 words)

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		This Soviet offensive was stopped by German reserves from the west (53rd Army Corps), which in turn as a result of active actions of the Soviet armies has appeared held down here on long time.
		For Soviet forces of Western Front the events of the first stage of Smolensk battle were by most serious test.
		The general plan was reduced to deal blows on three directions from areas to the south of Bely, Yartsevo and Roslavle on converging directions on Smolensk with a task in interaction with forces of 20th and 16th Armies rout the opponent in areas to the north and to the south of Smolensk.
	www.personal.utulsa.edu /~phillip-sheehan/files/battle.doc (2155 words)

	Bury Your Enemy - FEATURE - MOSNEWS.COM (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Soviet troops paraded proudly in front of the Kremlin walls on Nov. 7, 1941 to commemorate the Bolshevik revolution before marching directly to the battlefront — Moscow was expected by Hitler to surrender quickly.
		Moreover, the Germans were so poorly equipped for the Russian winter that they took valenki (Russian winter footwear made from felt) and the padded jackets of the local Soviet men fighting their comrades at the front from their frightened wives.
		Andrei Lugovoi, the former Federal Security Service of Russia (FSB) operative and the businessman now reported by the Western media to be linked to the poisoning and death in the UK of his former colleague Alexander Litvinenko, refuted those allegations in an exclusive interview to Russia Today.
	www.mosnews.com /feature/2005/12/09/germangrave.shtml (1756 words)

	GMT GAMES: East Front Series: Barbarossa: Army Group Center, 1941
		The Soviets are stunned by the German blitzkrieg.
		Their responses are slow, confused, and governed by pre-war contingency plans made obsolete by the speed of the German advance.
		Entire armies are dispatched from other parts of the Soviet Union as the true scope of the Minsk pocket disaster and the magnitude of the German threat become known.
	www.gmtgames.com /bagc/bagc_main.htm (397 words)

	Military Writings of Leon Trotsky: Before the Turning Point (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The fourth reason is the pre mature reassurance of the advanced workers of Russia, and of Petrograd itself, regarding the North-Western front.
		The front drew nearer and nearer to Petrograd.
		In order to strengthen the front it is necessary to tighten the screws where they have worked loose.
	www.marxists.org /archive/trotsky/works/1919-mil/ch139.htm (834 words)

	The Germano-Soviet Pact
		The Soviet Union was facing the mortal danger of a single anti-Soviet front consisting of all the imperialist powers.
		In fact, the Soviet Union concluded this pact with the clear understanding that sooner or later war with Nazi Germany was inevitable.
		Its purpose was to provoke a backlash against the Soviet Union and to end the conflict between the Anglo-French alliance and Germany through a compromise and an anti-Comminterm alliance.
	www.plp.org /books/Stalin/node131.html (2556 words)

	Western Front
		I suspect that Conason would reject "a rising tide lifts all boats", but having once lived in Germany, I personally attest to the difference in technological advancement between the U.S. and even the Western social democracies (to say nothing of the rest of the planet).
		Previously associated with fringier elements on the left, Dragutin was backing away from their ideological Weltanschauung even before he watched the WTC towers collapse in front of his eyes from a Lower East Side rooftop.
		VDH parallels wounded pride in the Middle East with that Europe: "The Cold War was merely a tranquilizer that suppressed all the old human urges and appetites,...
	westernfront.blogspot.com /2004_01_18_westernfront_archive.html (5099 words)

	Western Front
		Had they lost, Finland would have become another buffer-zone for the Soviet Union and I would have spent my childhood as a poor subject of the nihilist Soviet Empire.
		(Despite the exit polls, we at Western Front had come the the conlusion that Sen. John F. Kerry (D, Mass.) had little chance of winning either Florida or Ohio.
		Little Green Footballs, was one of the main large blogs which remained undeterred by exit polling.) Secondly, the examples Mr.
	westernfront.blogspot.com (1352 words)

	Fighting with the Soviets
		Fighting with the Soviets provides the first comprehensive look at Operation FRANTIC, an ambitious but ultimately unsuccessful Allied enterprise that produced the war's only significant Soviet-American military venture and demonstrated just how complex and demanding coalition warfare could be.
		Using Ukrainian air bases, FRANTIC was designed to help deliver the knockout blow to the Nazi war machine while minimizing the severe losses experienced by Allied air forces in daylight bombing campaigns over Germany.
		MARK J. is a major in the United States Air Force and a professor of airpower history and theory at the School of Advanced Airpower Studies, Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama.
	www.kansaspress.ku.edu /config.html (318 words)

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		The many varied scenarios cover most aspects of the fighting that occurred during this campaign.
		This includes the initial German panzer group breakthroughs on the right wing and center of the Russian Western Front, to the Soviet Western Front's subsequent counter-offensive on the German Army Group Center's right flank, to the final closure of the Smolensk pocket.
		The full campaign map is huge, covering a 300 km by 200 km area; each hex represents one kilometer, and each turn represents two hours for day and four hours during night.
	www.wargamer.com /reviews/smolensk41/page1.asp (338 words)

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