Crete was invaded on May 20, 1941, that might be pushed back to May 25th. The Battle of Crete would be ending about June 3rd or 4th. The extra troops came from North Africa, the same place as the rest of the support Britain sent. They don't turn the campaign around or anything,...
The cruelties of first Soviet occupation, of a scale not seen in Lithuania since the Russian Empire rule, led to a widespread despise of the regime in less than a year. For example in four days between June 14 and June 18 of 1941 alone some 40 000 people from educated families were exi...
On 22 June 1941 Germany invaded the Soviet Union. Initially it looked like the Soviet Union would be destroyed; momentarily the Japanese considered securing the northern part of the Empire by attacking the Soviet Union. Prudently the Japanese did not attack, but they wished to retain the option...
The editors have selected for publication at this time all documents essential to an understanding of the political relations between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union from the first efforts to reach an agreement in the spring of 1939 to the outbreak of war in June 1941. The larger publication ...
Soviet Union (1941) Tractor Tank – 70-90 Built A necessity The tests done between 1930-1932 by the Red Army to create a fighting vehicle based on tractors were totally unsuccessful, so the appearance of the KhTZ-16 was a sign of sheer desperation by the USSR. In 1941, as a ...
By 10th June 1941, only limited numbers of Yak-4s were available for service. A shipment of some 10 new aircraft was meant to arrive but did not due to the war’s outbreak. Pilots from the 314th Reconnaissance Regiment performed several flights over the border with Germany just prior to ...
The Far Eastern Front was a Front — a formation equivalent to a Western Army Group — of the Soviet Army during the Russian Civil War and the Second World War.After its Civil War service, the Far Eastern Front was re-created on June 28, 1938 from the Special Red Banner Far Eastern ...
A year later, in June 1941, Germany invaded the Soviet Union in what became known as the Great Patriotic War. Leonid again went to the front, but suffered a crash early on, in July, and was seriously wounded. A year later, his leg still injured, he was again dispatched to the front...
Clements, Barbara Evans. ‘Emancipation through Communism: The Ideology of A. M. Kollontai’.Slavic Review, 32, no. 2 (June 1973), pp. 323–38. ArticleGoogle Scholar Clements, Barbara Evans. and Colette Shulman.Women of the Soviet Union. Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Books, 1987. ...
This placed the Soviet Union in a severely disadvantageous position in June of 1941. Only by 1943 and 1944, did the Soviet soldiers reach general parity with their German counterparts; and even then, the average German soldier held many competence and experience advantages over many of opponents...