When Hitler launched Operation Barbarossa in June 1941, he was acting on one of the central ideas of Nazi ideology. The invasion of the Soviet Union was not a side campaign or a distraction. It was ...
In the spring of 1945, the U.S. Navy quietly handed over 149 warships to the Soviet Union at a remote Alaskan outpost, training the crews for the upcoming invasion of Japan. In the spring of 1945, ...