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Soviet offensive plans controversy. The Soviet offensive plans controversy was a debate among historians in the late 20th and early 21st centuries as to whether Joseph Stalin had planned to launch an attack against Nazi Germany in the summer of 1941. The controversy began with Soviet defector Viktor Suvorov with his 1988 book "Icebreaker: Who ...
A map of the Allies and the Soviet Bloc at the end of World War II. Operation Unthinkable was the name given to two related possible future war plans developed by the British Chiefs of Staff Committee against the USSR during 1945. The plans were never implemented. The creation of the plans was ordered by British Prime Minister Winston Churchill ...
Generalplan Ost Master Plan for the East Plan of new German settlement colonies (marked with dots and diamonds), drawn up by the Friedrich Wilhelm University Institute of Agriculture in Berlin, 1942, covering the Baltic states, Poland, Belarus, Ukraine and Russia Duration 1941–1945 Location Territories controlled by Nazi Germany Type Genocide, ethnic cleansing, slave labour and kidnapping of ...
Attempted by. Summary. 1932. Hotel Kaiserhof (Berlin) Unknown. Hitler and several members of his staff fell ill after dining at the revered Hotel Kaiserhof in Berlin. Poisoning was suspected, but no arrests were made. Hitler himself seemed least affected by the alleged poisoning, possibly due to his vegetarian diet.
Conspiracy theories about the death of Adolf Hitler, dictator of Germany from 1933 to 1945, contradict the accepted fact that he committed suicide in the Führerbunker on 30 April 1945. Stemming from a campaign of Soviet disinformation, most of these theories hold that Hitler and his wife, Eva Braun, survived and escaped from Berlin, with some ...
The Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact, officially the Treaty of Non-Aggression between Germany and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, [1] [2] was a non-aggression pact between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union with a secret protocol that partitioned between them the sovereign states of Central and Eastern Europe: Poland, Lithuania, Latvia ...
Conscription. Conscription in Russia ( Russian: всеобщая воинская обязанность, romanized : vseobshchaya voinskaya obyazannost, translated as " universal military obligation " or " liability for military service ") is a 12-month draft, which is mandatory for all male citizens who are between 18 and 30 years old, with a ...
A dual citizen of the U.S. and Russia, Kurmasheva is a 47-year-old Prague-based reporter for Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL), a U.S. government-funded media outlet designated by Russia as ...