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Eastern Inferno: Totenkopf in the Soviet Union
As Operation Barbarossa begins, Totenkopf plunges into savage warfare across the Soviet front. From brutal battles at Lake Ilmen to encirclement in the Demyansk Pocket, the division's resilience and ...
The brilliant immigrant who advised presidents and predicted the Soviet Union’s fall
In “Zbig,” Edward Luce tells the story of Zbigniew Brzezinski, a leading American strategist who had a notably eventful run ...
The Aviationist on MSN3h
Russia Considers Retiring its Sole Aircraft Carrier
The Admiral Kuznetsov aircraft carrier has suffered several accidents from 2009 to 2019, and has been undergoing overhaul and ...
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DOD ends bid to revive Soviet-style ekranoplan seaplane just as Chinese version appears
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency effort to resurrect a secretive Soviet design for an aircraft that skims just ...
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The CIA’s most unlikely Cold War weapon? A secret smuggling operation that terrified Soviet censors
In the aftermath of the Second World War, as the Soviet Union imposed ideological control across Eastern Europe, the CIA ...