Introduction No conflict, neither in size nor in scope, is comparable to the Eastern Front, 1941-45. ... In the Steppe Front, troops were concealed whilst in the Voronzeh Front dummy troop concentrations misled German aerial reconnaissance. ... Had they attacked, it is unlikely the Soviet Union could have survived a war on two fronts. ... The sheer size of the Russian terrain created logistical problems, The Germans had hoped to transpose a successful military strategy from the Western Front to the harsh geography of the East, with only making limited no concessions for it. ... In Stalin&...

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It began with the collapse of the centuries-old czarist regime in February that led to the overthrow of the Western-style Provisional Government and the establishment of the first national communist political system in October. ... The member of the block strove valiantly to convince the government that it must follow the example of western government to accept the voluntary cooperation of the public in coping with the inordinately difficult problems. ... Ammunition supplies had run out, many soldiers lacked shoes and sufficient clothing; adequate food supplies had cease reaching the front, bu...

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If we have a look at the actual events of the World War Two, we will see that the failure of the western allies to open the second front in 1942, despite the previous agreements on that issue, has cost great losses to Russia in peoples" lives and destroyed cities and villages on its territory. ... However, the West saw Soviet occupation in the Eastern Europe as an act of aggression and feared that Russia would go on and invade the Western Europe, that argument can be proved by the "long telegram" send by the US diplomat from Moscow: he argued that Russia would always look for the opportunity t...

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The following is an example of typical (black) Russian humour: Two men joined a queue in front of a bakery after a hard days work. ... Germany, divided at the end of the war, was split into Eastern/Communist Germany and Western/Democratic Germany. ... Western Europe, aided by the United States, was democratic and capitalist. ... While the USA used her economic power to hold Western Europe, the Soviet were prepared to use force. ... The USSR owed $US30billion to Western Countries. ...

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Did Western diplomacy take for granted that these would be the principles of European peacemaking? ... Neither leader had suspected that Stalin intended that all Popular Front governments in Europe would be taken over by communists. ... Poland's western boundary will be moved to the Neisse River, a territory containing approximately nine million Germans. ... Roosevelt perhaps made one of the great mistakes of Western strategy and diplomacy. ... Roosevelt's presence at Yalta had consequences in the Far East, the Mid East, central and western Europe, and basically the world at larg...

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Before August 1939 he had acquired 550 front line aircraft, 500 state-of-the-art T34 tanks, twenty cavalry squadrons and thirty-five infantry battalions. ... The Red Army's surprise assault began on 20 August 1939, with a thrust across the border into western Manchukuo. ... Phillis' description of the attack properly identifies the ingredients of a momentous, but largely forgotten, battle: He launched concentrated air, artillery and armor assaults along the enemy's whole front with the main armored thrust going to the flank. ... Moved to a higher command, he led the Western F...

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Then the article moves onto Putin by calling him a fool, "Do not underestimate how much of a fool Putin will make of himself in Crimea this weekend – in front of the whole world – and how much this will blow back on Russia, whose currency and stock markets are getting hammered as a result of Vladimir's Crimean adventure" (Friedman). ... "With Crimea's secession from Ukraine and its subsequent annexation by Russian, a similar situation has arisen Western analysts – who are often pro-Ukrainian – have overlooked the fact that, if anything, Crimea&...

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This plan, supported by the US government got a lot of critisism from the russian states and even from western states. ... At the 4th of september Kennedy declared, that the USA would prevent violent actions of Cuba in the western world with all means. ... JFK put an ultimate to the SU in front of the world public to take away their nuclear missiles from Cuba, if not, the USA would invade. ...

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Then the article moves on to Putin by calling him a fool, "Do not underestimate how much of a fool Putin will make of himself in Crimea this weekend – in front of the whole world – and how much this will blow back on Russia, whose currency and stock markets are getting hammered as a result of Vladimir's Crimean adventure" (Friedman). ... Western analysts – who are often pro-Ukrainian – have overlooked the fact that, if anything, Crimea's legal and historical status makes it more apt for removal from its parent state than Kosovo" (Walker). ... Th...

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While "privilege Russia," worked reluctantly to make themselves more western, the "dark people" had remained the same over the years. ... If a citizen had graduated from a school which was considered "higher education," the citizen became known as an "honorary citizen," which granted enough more privileges to appear somewhat like a western citizen. ... Second, it split the revolutionary front, reconciling the most cautious elements among the moderates, who had no heart for violence, with a government which promised to end the abuses of autocracy. ...

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Then the article moves onto Putin by calling him a fool, "Do not underestimate how much of a fool Putin will make of himself in Crimea this weekend – in front of the whole world – and how much this will blow back on Russia, whose currency and stock markets are getting hammered as a result of Vladimir's Crimean adventure" (Friedman). ... "With Crimea's secession from Ukraine and its subsequent annexation by Russian, a similar situation has arisen Western analysts – who are often pro-Ukrainian – have overlooked the fact that, if anything, Crimea&...

• Word Count: 1641
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate