A great image catalog from the wartime archives depicting the Nazi’s struggle against the vastly superior Russian tanks, armor formations, and soldiers at the Eastern Front. Hitler invaded the USSR despite advice from his top generals that invading Russia before Britain could be a major tactical error. Hitler was confident that the Blitzkrieg tactics which …
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A wreckage of a World War II aircraft from the German Luftwaffe has been discovered in a Russian wood. Volksbund announced the discovery on November 14, 2019. Although little information has been released by the Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge e.V., they did confirm the wreckage is of a Junker Ju-88, a twin-engined multirole combat aircraft. It saw …
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After visiting the Katyn War Cemetery, I began exploring the local forest in the Krasny Bor district in a search for Hitler’s headquarters, “Bärenhöhle,” which was located here during the war. However, Adolf Hitler never visited it and so it was actually used by the Staff of Army Group Centre (Heeresgruppe Mitte). After visiting the …
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The Katyn War Cemetery is a Polish war cemetery near Smolensk, Russia. Opened in 2000, the Katyn War Cemetery contains the remnants of the Katyn massacre victims and victims of the Soviet Great Purges in the 1930’s. The Katyn massacre was a series of mass executions of Polish intelligentsia carried out by the NKVD in …
In the village of Ivanovskoye, within the urban district of Chernogolovka, 40 km from Moscow, you will find a wonderful but little-known technical museum, called the Military Technical Museum. It was created through the passionate effort of vehicle enthusiasts several years ago and is situated on the former area of a Soviet pioneer camp. Despite …
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Below you will find a compilation of hand picked incredible videos from German World War II tanks which were unearthed in various countries of the formerly known Soviet Union, Poland and one in Germany. Many of these tanks are almost in perfect condition and some of them even started without too much of a problem …
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Below you will find a compilation of hand picked incredible videos from Russian World War II tanks which were unearthed in various countries of the formerly known Soviet Union and Poland. Many of these tanks are almost in perfect condition and some of them even started without too much of a problem after cleaning them …
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The Central Armed Forces Museum is located in northern Moscow, near the Central Academic Theatre of the Russian Army. The first exhibition highlighted the military aspects of the Soviet Republic and the Red Army which was organized in Moscow in a building that currently houses the State Universal Store (GUM). It was opened by Vladimir …
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The Central Air Force Museum first opened in 1960, on the Monino Air Force base close to Moscow, with a collection of 14 aircraft. Today, the Central Air Force Museum has more than 170 aircraft, together with some other exhibits on display in the museum buildings, making it one of the largest aviation museum in …
Would the history of the twentieth century have taken a different turn if the World War I Battle of Tannenberg had ended in a Russian victory rather than defeat? When the war began, the expectation was that Russia, with the world’s largest standing army, would be a major force for the Allied Powers. Russia was …
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