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Among the Second World War's great tragedies, and which has often been overlooked in Western historiography, is the damage inflicted by the German armed forces on the Soviet Union and its people, the worst of it in 1941 and 1942.
By the beginning of 1942 Adolf Hitler had led Nazi Germany into a desperate situation, from which there was probably no escape.
Six weeks into the Soviet Army's Winter Campaign, on 15 January 1942 Adolf Hitler at last agreed that German Army Group Centre could make a gradual, fighting withdrawal to a straighter and shorter line slightly further west of Moscow.
The two recent telephonic conversations between Presidents Joe Biden and Vladimir Putin over the simmering situation in Ukraine were, by all accounts, sedate.
Three-quarters of a century ago the Third Reich lay in ruins, its ruler Adolf Hitler dead, having shot himself in the right temple with his 7.65mm pistol on 30 April 1945. Hitler had refused to leave Berlin over previous days, knowingly sealing hi
With the world's attention directed towards the coronavirus it may be worth switching focus, and analysing another international incident, the Cuban Missile Crisis.
It is apart from the historical discussion, that the consolidation of the Soviet state ultimately put to an end the vision of the World Revolution, understood as the universal liquidation of the entire political order.
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