How a lack of ammo made the swap from Kalashnikovs to M4 carbines a headache for Ukraine's special operators
A soldier in Ukraine's Special Operations Forces told BI that the upgrade was an adjustment for some, but they got the hang ...
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“The Night Witches”: The Soviet Air Force’s Deadliest Female Bomber Pilots
To answer that question, we turn to former Sunday Times of London journalist Russell Miller in his 1984 book The Soviet Air ...
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Lyudmila Pavlichenko Was the Deadliest Female Sniper of All-Time
Pavlichenko attained a final kill tally of 309, making her one of the top five deadliest snipers, period ... she was a research assistant at Soviet Navy headquarters. On October 10, 1974, Lyudmila ...
The release of a 1961 plan to break up the CIA revives an old conspiracy theory about who killed JFK
A key adviser warned President John F. Kennedy after the disastrous Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba in 1961 that the agency ...
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Manga on Soviet women in WWII shocks industry, wows readers
was published in the Soviet Union in 1985. It chronicles the everyday lives, emotions and thoughts of more than 500 women who served in the war as snipers, pilots, tank drivers, anti-aircraft ...
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The release of a 1961 plan to break up the CIA revives an old conspiracy theory about who killed JFK
Police arrested Oswald, who had positioned himself from a sniper’s perch on the sixth ... the CIA” in the Cold War conflict with the Soviet Union and its allies like Cuba, and a huge ...
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JFK assassination files released, but some withheld
Police arrested 24-year-old Lee Harvey Oswald, who had positioned himself from a sniper’s perch on the sixth floor ... Oswald was a former Marine who defected to the Soviet Union before returning home ...
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How Ukraine became the independent democracy it is today: A visual perspective of the country's history
Ukraine's independence had been established, but the country would soon become part of the Soviet Union. Ukrainian pro-independence forces fought pro-Bolsheviks intermittently from 1917 to 1921.