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The Soviet Union or USSR (1922–1991) was a socialist state in Eurasia. After the 1924 death of founding leader Lenin (who led the October Revolution in 1917), Stalin established a planned economy and suppressed political opposition. After World War II, the Soviet Union emerged as one of the world's two superpowers, opposing the USA in the Cold War. 1980s leader Gorbachev attempted reform with perestroika and glasnost but the country collapsed in 1991.
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Was the Wehrmacht a mechanized army?
You are correct. Parts of the Wehrmacht were mechanized, but the vast majority was foot infantry with horse drawn logistics. Most soldiers walked towards Moscow, and back.
World War II German Milita …
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Is there any footage of the Chernobyl explosion?
I'm also aware that back in 1986 not everyone was walking around with a camera in their pocket.
Are you really?
It goes a bit further than that, my friend. Of course lots of people did carry c …
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Did the Balkans campaign delay Operation Barbarossa for the Nazis and was it therefore an im...
It didn't influence Operation Barbarossa significantly. What stopped the German advance? The tenacious defence of the Red Army. When the Germans kicked in the door, the house didn't come down crashing …
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When planning Barbarossa, did Germany conceive of the Soviet migration of heavy industry?
That's a definite no. German intelligence about the Soviet Union was abysmal. Not just bad, but abysmal. They estimated the number of Soviet military units wrong by well over 1000%. Not only that, the …
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Did Japan ever attack Vladivostok in WW2? Why or why not?
They didn't because of the Soviet–Japanese Neutrality Pact. The Allies agreed (in Yalta ???) that the USSR should as soon as possible attack Japan, which they did in August 1945. By then the war was a …
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Why didn't Japanese attack Soviet Union simultaneously as the Germans?
Japan could expand in two directions: west and northwest or south. First they wanted to go west (China) and northwest (Siberia). China wasn't a problem, but going northwest was. The soviet army was mu …
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What usually happens to a country's leadership when a dictator dies?
That's an impossible question to answer. Every country, every period and every dictator is different. Even in the Soviet Union succession was not something written in a constitution. Or, if it was, ad …
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Given the concern about Soviet oil in World War II, why is so little mention made of capture...
The Germans were not capable of using those captured coal mines:
Russian tracks are wider than European tracks. The Russians destroyed as much as possible of the tracks and locomotives as possible whe …
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