Warfare

  The Polish-Soviet War of 1919-1920, also known as the Polish-Bolshevik War, was a conflict that unfolded in the aftermath of World War I and the Russian Revolution. This war was a complex and pivotal event that shaped the geopolitical landscape of Eastern Europe, determining the boundaries of newly independent states and influencing the trajectory of the Russian Civil War.                                           Picture courtsey: rbth.com   The origins of the conflict can be traced back to the turbulent post-World War I period when a power vacuum emerged in Eastern Europe, and various nations sought to establish their independence. Poland, which had disappeared from the map of Europe in the late 18th century, was resurrected in the aftermath of World War I. The Treaty of Versailles recognized Poland as an independent state, but the exact borders were not clearl...

The Russian Revolution of 1905 was a pivotal moment in the history of Russia, marking the beginning of a period of significant political and social change. This revolution was a precursor to the larger and more impactful Russian Revolution of 1917, which ultimately led to the overthrow of the Romanov dynasty and the establishment of the Soviet Union.                                  picture coortsey:wikipedia.org The roots of the 1905 Revolution can be traced back to various factors, including social, economic, and political discontent among the Russian population. Russia at the turn of the 20th century was characterized by a rigid social hierarchy, with the autocratic rule of Tsar Nicholas II at the top. The majority of the population, particularly the peasants and industrial workers, faced harsh living conditions and lacked basic political freedoms. One of the major triggers for the revolution was the...

During World War II, the United States and the Soviet Union fought together as allies against the Axis powers. However, the relationship between the two nations was a tense one. Americans had long been wary of Soviet communism and concerned about Russian leader Joseph Stalin’s tyrannical rule of his own country. For their part, the Soviets resented the Americans’ decades-long refusal to treat the USSR as a legitimate part of the international community as well as their delayed entry into World War II, which resulted in the deaths of tens of millions of Russians. After the war ended, these grievances ripened into an overwhelming sense of mutual distrust and enmity.   Postwar Soviet expansionism in Eastern Europe fueled many Americans’ fears of a Russian plan to control the world. Meanwhile, the USSR came to resent what they perceived as American officials’ bellicose rhetoric, arms buildup and interventionist approach to international relations. In such a hostile atmosphere, no ...

 First Battle of Ypres      Picture courtesy  quizzclub.com On October 19, 1914, close to the Belgian city of Ypres, Allied and German forces began the first of what would be three battles to control the city and take the advantage of the positions on the north coast of Belgium during the First World War. After the German advance through Belgium and eastern France was curtailed by a great Allied victory in the First Battle of Marne and Second Battle of Marne   in late September 1914, the so-called name “Race to the Sea” began, as each army attempted to outflank the other on their way northwards, hastily constructing trench fortifications as they went. The race ended in mid-October at the city named Ypres, the ancient Flemish city with its fortifications guarding the ports of the English Channel and access to the North Sea beyond. After the Germans had taken control of the Belgian city of Antwerp early in October, Antwerp’s remaining Belgian forces along w...

Picture courtesy reditt.com World War II’s  was most infamous siege began a little over two months after the launch of “ Operation Barbarossa ,” Adolf Hitler’s surprise invasion of the Soviet Union. On June 22, 1941, in defiance of a nonaggression pact signed two years earlier, some about 3 million German soldiers streamed across the Soviet frontier and commenced a three-pronged attack. While the center and southern elements struck at Moscow and Ukraine, the Wehrmacht’s Army Group North spread through Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia and moved on Leningrad, a city of over 3 million situated on the Neva River near the Baltic Sea. Hitler had long thought that Leningrad a key objective in the invasion. It served as the home base of Russia’s Baltic Fleet, and its more than 600 factories made it second only to Moscow in industrial output. While Leningrad’s civilians made a frantic attempt to construct trenches and antitank fortifications in the late summer of 1941, the Soviets’ unprepared ...

 The Battle of Kursk originated in July 1943 around the Soviet city of Kursk in western Russia, as Germany launched a brand new mission Operation Citadel, Hitler’s response to his devastating defeat by the Soviet Red Army at the Battle of Stalingrad. The battle was Germany’s final chance to regain dominance on the Eastern Front during World War II and would be their final blitzkrieg offensive assault. In spite a massive planned assault on Soviet troops using heavy tanks, artillery and a very strong air power, postponements by German dictator Adolf Hitler gave the Soviets enough time to prepare for the onslaught. Ultimately, Germany’s plan to wipe out the Red Army once and for all was itself wiped out, but not before both sides experienced heavy casualties. Germany’s Epic Defeat at the Battle of Stalingrad Picture courtesy  noyabrsk-inform.ru By June 1942, Hitler had advanced into the Soviet Union and hoped to easily take control of the most important city of Soviet Union, the ...

 The battle of Stalingard was a harsh battle between Russian forces and those of Nazi Germany and the Axis powers during World War II. The battle is famous as one of the largest, longest, and bloodiest battle in modern warfare during World War 2. The battle extended from August 1942 till February 1943.  More than 2 million troops fought in the battle of Stalingard and nearly two million people were killed or injured in the fighting, including tens thousands of Russian civilians. But however, the battle of Stalingard (one of Russia’s important industrial cities) ultimately turned the tide of World War II in favor of the Allied forces. Prelude to the Battle of Stalingrad Picture courtesy elink.io In the middle of World War II – having captured territory in much of present-day Ukraine and Belarus in the spring on 1942 – Germany’s Wehrmacht forces decided to mount an offensive mission on southern Russia in the summer of that year. Under the leadership of ruthle...

Operation Barbarossa was the largest ever land invasion. This invasion was planned by Germany in 1940 by Adolf Hitler. Their goal was to gain victory over the western soviet. This time I am going to discuss how Germany invaded Russia and how Russia protected their country from the Invasion named Operation Barbarossa done by Germany. Operation Barbarossa (German: Unternehmen Barbarossa) was the code name for the Axis invasion of the Soviet Union, which started on Sunday, 22 June 1941, during World War II. The operation put into action Nazi Germany's ideological goal of conquering the western Soviet Union so as to repopulate it with Germans. The German Generalplan Ost aimed to use some of the conquered people as slave labour for the Axis war effort while acquiring the oil reserves of the Caucasus as well as the agricultural resources of various Soviet territories. Their ultimate goal included the eventual extermination, enslavement, Germanization and mass deportation to Siberia of t...