This Finnish soldier overdosed on meth to escape the Soviets during WWII
The U.S. military has a strict drug policy. Even the use of legal medication without a prescription can land you in hot water. However, in the German and Finnish Armies…
This flawed government report triggered nuclear panic in Cold War
Anyone who survived the Cold War likely remembers the fear that, with almost no notice, an endless rain of Soviet missiles and bombs could begin that would end the war. Even if your city wasn’t hit, the number of nukes that America and Russia would…
The Soviets tried to make a flying tank during WWII
Armored units provide ground forces with protection and mobility on the battlefield but can be slow to deploy to the front. Airborne units can be quickly deployed onto the battlefield,…
Today in military history: US and Soviets sign pact to destroy chemical weapons
On June 1, 1990, the United States and the Soviet Union signed the Chemical Weapons Accord, where both nations agreed to begin the destruction of their sizable reserves of chemical…
The Japanese office worker who fought the Soviets in Afghanistan
Remember when 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi came out and everyone joked that Jim Halpert (John Krasinski) got bored of his office job at Dunder Mifflin so he…
This is the mass suicide mission the Soviets wanted to use on the US Navy in WWIII
In 2013, a former Soviet Navy officer named Maksim Y. Tokarev penned an article in the U.S. Naval War College Review called <…
How the Finns stopped the Soviets with this polka song
There’s a subsection of YouTube dedicated to playing the same song on repeat, over and over again, for hours at a time. Parents think it’s just a part o…
TOPHAT was the USA’s highest-ranking mole inside Soviet Intelligence
Sometime in the late 1950s, a top officer inside the Soviet Union’s military intelligence agency found himself disgusted with the way the leadership of the USSR conducted themselves. The Soviet…
What if a Soviet mechanized infantry battalion had tried to start World War III?
The Fulda Gap is not well known outside military planners and wargamers.
But if World War III happened, that would be where one of the first battles would be fought between the United States Army and the Soviet Red Army.
Who would…
Buran: How the Soviets stole the Space Shuttle
Although America’s space shuttle was not the budget-friendly platform it was intended to be, the program was so successful that the Soviet Union decided to build their own. Unbeknownst to…