Category: Russia

• July 19, 1943 – Eastern Front

  Stabsfeldwebel Paul Rätz pulls up after attacking a Soviet armoured train in the Leningrad sector. His stick shudders as his Focke-Wulf 190 takes hits from ground fire. Belly landing in swampy ground, he sets off but for his own lines, but is taken prisoner and repatriated to Germany in 1949. He passed away in 1989…

  July 19, 2024

  1940s, 1980s, 1990s, Focke-Wulf 190, History Daily, Luftwaffe, Paul Ratz, Restoration, Russia

  1940s, 1990s, Focke-Wulf 190, History Daily, Luftwaffe, Paul Ratz, Restoration, Russia

• Marshal Mikhail Tukhachevsky and a group of seven other senior officers from the Soviet High Command were found guilty and executed at a show trial. They were accused of coordinating a German-funded military plot inside the Red Army. June 12, 1937.

  June 12, 2024

  1930s, Executions, Germany, History Daily, Marshal Mikhail Tukhachevsky, NKVD, Russia, Soviet Union, The Great Purge

  1930s, Executions, Germany, History Daily, Marshal Mikhail Tukhachevsky, NKVD, Russia, Soviet Union, The Great Purge

• Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev, Arrives in Los Angeles for a Two-Week Coast-to-Coast Tour, his First Official Visit to America. September 19, 1959.

  Image: Photo of Nelson Rockefeller (then the Governor of New York) calling on Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev and his family, who were visiting the United States. The Khrushchevs were staying at the Waldorf-Astoria in New York. From left-Mrs. Khrushchev (Nina), the Soviet Ambassador to the US, Mikhail Manishikov, Nelson Rockefeller, Premier Khrushchev, Rada Khrushchev (daughter)…

  September 19, 2023

  1950s, Cold War, History Daily, Nikita Khrushchev, Russia

  1950s, Cold War, History Daily, Nikita Khrushchev, Soviet Union