The US plan to train nuclear suicide bomber paratroopers
No one ever said everything we came up with in the Cold War was a flawless plan. Who knows how serious the Army was about nuclear suicide paratroopers?
Tag: Russia
Lend-lease: What was old is new again, with an ironic twist
As the current war rages between Ukraine and Russia, the conflict has brought back a U.S. pre-World War II concept, lend-lease, which was used to aid Great Britain against Nazi Germany before the American entry into the war. After the U.S. entered the war in December 1941, lend-lease aid was also extended to the Soviet […]
The last prisoner of World War II was found in Russia in 2000
In the year 2000, the Russians finally released a prisoner of war. He wasn’t an Afghan Mujahideen, against whom the Russians had fought the most recent war. It was 74-year-old Andras Toma, a Hungarian who had fought with the Axis powers against the Soviet Union during World War II. He would be the last World […]
How German troops at Stalingrad behaved when they were on leave from the battle
The Battle of Stalingrad was the first turning point for the Eastern Front of World War II. Coming on the heels of Operation Barbarossa, the five-month battle allowed the Soviet Union to turn the tide of the war against Nazi Germany. At the time, however, the outcome was less than certain. The Nazi war machine […]
This is how Russian President Vladimir Putin’s bodyguards operate
In the United States, important political figures are protected primarily by the Secret Service, a department of the U.S. Treasury that is also tasked with investigating crime in the American financial sectors. Aside from the economic aspect of the USSS “dual role,” its protection of the President of the United States is its most visible […]
This is why the Soviet Union was one of the most evil governments ever created
Deep-seated leftist revolutionaries defeated Russia’s Nicholas II, bringing the Romanov’s rule of centuries to an end. Consequently, the Bolsheviks founded a socialist government in the Russian territory. Upon Lenin’s death in 1924, Joseph Stalin, a revolutionary born in Georgia, came to power. Stalin was a dictator and ruled with terror. He imposed ruthless rules that […]
America wanted to stop Earth’s rotation during Cold War
A 2017 book by Daniel Ellsberg reveals one of the craziest ideas the United States ever came up with during the Cold War.
You have to see the tombstones in this Soviet military cemetery
NATO’s Ämari Air Base, formerly known as Suurküla in the Soviet Union days, has a very unique graveyard in the forest nearby.
This is the ‘Terminator’ armored vehicle Russia is using to fight in Ukraine
Believe it or not, Russia has learned a thing or two from its military adventures and blunders in the past few decades. One of the things it learned is to be ruthless in its execution of a plan, which it tries to do on every occasion – see South Ossetia and Crimea. Another thing it […]
Did the Soviets leave dead cosmonauts in orbit?
Anecdotes, possible recordings of radio traffic, and Soviet culture of secrecy have allowed some troubling rumors to persist over the years.