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2 days ago · The Kliment Voroshilov (KV) tanks were a series of heavy tanks that had extremely heavy armour protection during the early part of World War II, especially during the first year of the German invasion.
2 days ago · A list from the Great Purge signed by Molotov, Stalin, Voroshilov, Kaganovich, and Zhdanov. Historians with archival access have confirmed that Stalin was intimately involved in the purge.
2 days ago · The IS-2 tank emerged as a successor to the KV (Kliment Voroshilov) series of tanks, which had served the Soviet Union early in the war. While the KV series had been effective against earlier German tanks, the rapidly advancing German armor technology—particularly the introduction of the Tiger I—rendered it obsolete by 1942.
2 days ago · Over the course of the operation, over 3.8 million personnel of the Axis powers—the largest invasion force in the history of warfare —invaded the western Soviet Union, along a 2,900-kilometer (1,800 mi) front, with 600,000 motor vehicles and over 600,000 horses for non-combat operations.
3 days ago · KGB, foreign intelligence and domestic security agency of the Soviet Union. During the Soviet era the KGB’s responsibilities also included the protection of the country’s political leadership, the supervision of border troops, and the general surveillance of the population.
- The KGB was the foreign intelligence and domestic security agency of the Soviet Union.
- The KGB was created in 1954 to serve as the “sword and shield of the Communist Party” in the Soviet Union.
- The KGB was responsible for foreign intelligence, domestic counterintelligence, technical intelligence, protection of the political leadership, and...
4 days ago · During 1940 and 1941, 53,356 people from Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina were mobilized for labour across the entire territory of the Soviet Union; though the mobilization was presented as voluntary, refusal to work could result in penal punishment, and living and working conditions were generally poor. Aftermath.
3 days ago · Nuclear weapon - Soviet Union, Cold War, Arms Race: In the decade before World War II, Soviet physicists were actively engaged in nuclear and atomic research. By 1939 they had established that, once uranium has been fissioned, each nucleus emits neutrons and can therefore, at least in theory, begin a chain reaction.
