WW2 The Eastern Front
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Ok ! Time for another Q&A session ! Ask any WW2 related question under this post and I'll answer it !
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SMERSH (Soviet counterintelligence) found Hitler's burned corpse in a crater in the garden of the Reich Chancellery and confirmed his identity through dental records. Several bunker survivors, including Hitler's valet Heinz Linge, adjutant Otto Günsche, and pilot Hans Baur, all
@ShoahUkraine I don’t think Hitler survived. But what is the most rational answer to where his body ended up to confirm he was dead? How did we know?
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Trotsky is despised by everyone on all sides, from Tito to Che, Mao, Ho Chi Minh, and others. Even Khrushchev, who betrayed Stalin, awarded Trotsky’s assassin the title Hero of the Soviet Union! But apparently, all these legends were wrong, and only the Trotskyists know what
@ShoahUkraine I thought he wasn't a Stalinist.
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" For the purpose of performing its subversive activities in different organizations of the working class and in the other democratic parties and organizations, Trotskyism operates in different shapes, but always with one goal l! to clear the road for the fascist-imperialist
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Tatars from Tataristan were cool , shouldn't be confused with Crimean Tatars
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Rosenberg refers to Alfred Rosenberg, the Volksdeutsche Estonian and chief ideologue behind Nazi ideology, who was executed at the Nuremberg Trials.
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Soviet caricature of Ukrainian nationalists serving Germany: "Long live our father Rosenberg!" by Boris Yefimov, 1936.
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Kursk had more tanks and equipment involved but less soldiers in total
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Operation Bagration, launched by the Soviet Union in June 1944, is the largest battle in human history in terms of the number of soldiers involved to this day , not just on the Eastern Front. It involved about 2.5 million Red Army troops facing roughly 1.2 million German
@ShoahUkraine what was the single largest battle of the eastern front? in terms of soldiers involved
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I should mention Japan didn't directly attack USSR during the war but there were Japanese observers at the eastern front on the German side just to observe the war and learn .
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Japan and the USSR had already gone to war in 1939 at Khalkhin Gol, where Japan was defeated. The two countries then signed a non-aggression treaty, which both sides honored until the Soviets entered the Pacific theater at the very end of the war.
@ShoahUkraine Why didn't the Japanese invade the USSR?
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The Crimean Tatars had some of the highest levels of collaboration and were exceptionally cruel to the local population under Nazi rule. They were deported as punishment, but in a way it saved their lives, because the Red Army veterans returning to Crimea wanted to kill them.
@ShoahUkraine Why did Stalin deport Crimean Tatars, Chechens, etc during WW2?
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80 years ago today, on 11.11.1945, the Constituent Assembly of socialist Yugoslavia was elected in Belgrade 🇷🇸 In the first postwar elections, all citizens were granted the right to vote regardless of gender or religion—except those accused of collaborating with WW2 occupiers.
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Red Army soldier committing genocide in Berlin by giving first aid to a captured Wehrmacht soldier ! May 1945 , Berlin.
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His son was appointed by President Obama as the US ambassador to Russia .
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Today is Veterans Day in the United States! Let’s remember Joseph R. Beyrle, a U.S. Army paratrooper and sergeant in the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment of the 101st Airborne Division. He was the only person known to have fought in both the U.S. Army and the Red Army during
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I think Putin was a RAF KGB handler in Dresden at some point
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Red Army Faction (RAF) wanted poster, West Germany, 1986. It was probably intended for U.S. military installations, which explains the English language.
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