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Orthodox Christian. Posting about military history.
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Thread: Operation Barbarossa The Nazi-Soviet War was the largest land war ever fought, and the results shaped world affairs even to the present day. The German invasion of the USS...
Thread: Tank Production and Industrial Strategy The Soviet Union out-built Nazi Germany in tanks by a two to one margin. The Soviets built some 98,000 tanks between 1941 and 1945,...
Thread: D-Day and the Invasion of Normandy The D-Day landings in Normandy on June 6, 1944, are perhaps the most famous battle of the Second World War for Americans. But was it re...
Thread: The Battle of Kursk In July 1943, the Red Army and the Wehrmacht fought a battle near the city of Kursk. This battle became famous for seeing both the largest tank on tank...
Thread: The Bolsheviks Take Power In the last thread, we looked at the confused state of Russian politics after the fall of the monarchy. We will now continue this story by lookin...
Thread: Russia's Dual Revolution In the last thread, we looked at how the Tsar was removed from power by the coordinated action of Army leadership and the political elites in Petr...
Thread: The Fall of the Tsar I received many requests to discuss how the Bolsheviks came to power in Russia, so we will begin here. The road from the monarchy to Bolshevik dictato...
Thread: Why Moscow is Russiaβs Capital In the course of the Ukraine war, many people have for the first time been exposed to the idea that Kiev was the original capital of the pri...
Thread: How Russia Defeated Napoleon Napoleon's doomed invasion of Russia in 1812 is an iconic moment in world history. Most people know the general premise, that Napoleon's army...
A Thread on the Munich Agreement and the Stalin-Hitler Pact The lesson that everyone thinks we drew from WW2 is some sort of trite rule about standing up to bullies, because if yo...
A Thread on Blitzkrieg Myth Popular histories of World War Two love to talk about a German strategy known as "Blitzkrieg" - supposedly an innovative, high speed, overwhelming att...
Friends, a May 9 thread about the scale of Soviet losses in World War Two. You cannot understand why Victory Day is the most significant secular holiday in Russia without getting...