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by Acolyte
17 Aug 2010, 19:10
Forum: The Allies and the Neutral States in general
Topic: A Soviet general with a Hitler moustache
Replies: 5
Views: 2322

A Soviet general with a Hitler moustache

Issa Alexandrovich Pliyev (1903-1979), ethnic Ossetian, twice HSU, Hero of the Mongolian People's Republic http://mek.oszk.hu/05000/05068/html/images/04.jpg (source) - commander of 5th Cavalry Division, then 2nd Guards Cavalry Corps - commander of Cavalry Mechanized Group 'Pliyev' during the Battle...
by Acolyte
17 Aug 2010, 18:26
Forum: Holocaust & 20th Century War Crimes
Topic: Did the Wehrmacht liberate any GULAG camps in 1941/42?
Replies: 12
Views: 2375

Re: Did the Wehrmacht liberate any GULAG camps in 1941/42?

Acolyte, if you go to the interactive color map you posted, and click on the red dots, it gives you the specifics about the camps in that region (I had to use the translate button--kak zhal, moii russkie seytchas otchen ploho; I presume from your avatar and location you can read it)--you will find ...
by Acolyte
17 Aug 2010, 17:33
Forum: WW2 in Eastern Europe
Topic: Rzhev: A winter of death, 1942.
Replies: 66
Views: 10920

Re: Rzhev: A winter of death, 1942.

Let's bump this great thread. It seems to me that Glantz is basically saying Op. Mars was a huge defeat for the Red Army that Soviet historiography remained silent about. Well, if that's the case, why didn't Nazi propagandists - or right-wing Western historians for that matter - milk this story for...
by Acolyte
17 Aug 2010, 17:16
Forum: WW2 in Eastern Europe
Topic: Rzhev: A winter of death, 1942.
Replies: 66
Views: 10920

Re: Rzhev: A winter of death, 1942.

Let's bump this great thread. It seems to me that Glantz is basically saying Op. Mars was a huge defeat for the Red Army that Soviet historiography remained silent about. Well, if that's the case, why didn't Nazi propagandists - or right-wing Western historians for that matter - milk this story for...
by Acolyte
17 Aug 2010, 17:06
Forum: WW2 in Eastern Europe
Topic: Rzhev: A winter of death, 1942.
Replies: 66
Views: 10920

Re: Rzhev: A winter of death, 1942.

Let's bump this great thread. It seems to me that Glantz is basically saying Op. Mars was a huge defeat for the Red Army that Soviet historiography remained silent about. Well, if that's the case, why didn't Nazi propagandists - or right-wing Western historians for that matter - milk this story for...
by Acolyte
16 Aug 2010, 22:05
Forum: WW2 in Eastern Europe
Topic: Rzhev: A winter of death, 1942.
Replies: 66
Views: 10920

Re: Rzhev: A winter of death, 1942.

Let's bump this great thread. It seems to me that Glantz is basically saying Op. Mars was a huge defeat for the Red Army that Soviet historiography remained silent about. Well, if that's the case, why didn't Nazi propagandists - or right-wing Western historians for that matter - milk this story for ...
by Acolyte
16 Aug 2010, 21:57
Forum: Holocaust & 20th Century War Crimes
Topic: Did the Wehrmacht liberate any GULAG camps in 1941/42?
Replies: 12
Views: 2375

Re: Did the Wehrmacht liberate any GULAG camps in 1941/42?

Thanks, I know about these. But my question is about GULAG camps, not NKVD prisons. Common sense's have it that the propagandists of Goebbels would've given a lot of publicity to any liberated GULAG camp to portray it as another symbol of bolshevik barbarism. Yet I never heard about something like t...
by Acolyte
16 Aug 2010, 16:34
Forum: Holocaust & 20th Century War Crimes
Topic: Did the Wehrmacht liberate any GULAG camps in 1941/42?
Replies: 12
Views: 2375

Did the Wehrmacht liberate any GULAG camps in 1941/42?

Many GULAG camps were located in the Western regions of the USSR that were captured by the Germans in 1941/42: http://www.memo.ru/history/nkvd/gulag/maps/ussri.htm http://www.g-to-g.com/picts/user/repressed/mapgulag_1.jpg Did the Germans liberate any of them? Or were all the inmates deported/shot by...
by Acolyte
13 Aug 2010, 21:52
Forum: Holocaust & 20th Century War Crimes
Topic: Women’s Role in Holocaust May Exceed Old Notions
Replies: 0
Views: 338

Women’s Role in Holocaust May Exceed Old Notions

Women’s Role in Holocaust May Exceed Old Notions By ISABEL KERSHNER Published: July 17, 2010 JERUSALEM — Amid the horrors of the Holocaust, the atrocities perpetrated by a few brutal women have always stood out, like aberrations of nature. There were notorious camp guards like Ilse Koch and Irma Gr...
by Acolyte
21 Oct 2009, 22:00
Forum: Other eras
Topic: Soviet war plans vs. NATO 1956 - 1989. Anybody knows?
Replies: 57
Views: 29134

Re: Soviet war plans vs. NATO 1956 - 1989. Anybody knows?

Here's some info on the Soviet plans against the Nordic states: http://www.php.isn.ethz.ch/collections/colltopic.cfm?lng=en&id=46465&nav1=1&nav2=6&nav3=12 And the best parts: "During this exercise the staff in Leningrad also anticipated that they would, as a result of the Treaty of Friendship, Coop...
by Acolyte
21 Oct 2009, 21:55
Forum: First World War
Topic: 1915 Hungarian maps of war goals
Replies: 3
Views: 1104

Re: 1915 Hungarian maps of war goals

viriato wrote:I'm unable to see the maps. Problems with the URL? Could you show the maps here Acolyte?
The blog post was unfortunately deleted.
by Acolyte
13 Dec 2008, 20:33
Forum: Holocaust & 20th Century War Crimes
Topic: Russian TV: 3 million died in Kolyma GULAG camps
Replies: 4
Views: 949

Russian TV: 3 million died in Kolyma GULAG camps

I've just come across this segment from the news channel 'Russia Today': http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=vmYuTIjT9cY At the end of the report they say 3 million prisoners died in the Kolyma camps. I've read this figure elsewhere but I was very surprised to see a state-owned Russian TV channel repeat i...
by Acolyte
02 Dec 2008, 19:47
Forum: Other eras
Topic: Soviet war plans vs. NATO 1956 - 1989. Anybody knows?
Replies: 57
Views: 29134

Re: Soviet war plans vs. NATO 1956 - 1989. Anybody knows?

The Soviet version called for a major deception and pinning attacks in the north, while a mass strike force of at least 60 armored and mechanized divisions would sweep west from Czechoslovakia into neutral Austria, cross it, and then erupt into eastern Switzerland. The Red Army would have to fight ...
by Acolyte
24 Oct 2008, 16:27
Forum: The Soviet Union at War 1917-1945
Topic: "Stalin wanted to stop Hitler in 1939"
Replies: 37
Views: 3518

"Stalin wanted to stop Hitler in 1939"

Or so the Russia Today channel recently reported based on declassified documents:

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=PTuh-hRoC ... re=channel

One wonders how serious that proposal was. It was common knowledge that Poland wasn't about to allow Soviet troops on its soil under any circumstances.
by Acolyte
02 Jul 2008, 16:43
Forum: First World War
Topic: 1915 Hungarian maps of war goals
Replies: 3
Views: 1104

1915 Hungarian maps of war goals

Scanned and posted on a Hungarian blog from a 1915 publication (an atlas for the year 1916, by Dr. Zsigmond Bátky) of the Hungarian Institute of Geography, displaying the supposed expansionist intentions of the Entente and the Central Powers. This chapter in the atlas is entitled 'The partition plan...

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