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In 1993, A Soviet Army Division Left 350 T-80 Tanks In Ukraine. Today, They Fight Against Russia.
Early T-80s in Soviet service. Soviet army photo The Soviet army’s 20th Tank Division was one of the most powerful ground-combat formations of the late Cold War. The Poland-based division had no fewer...
Poland Made A Better Russian-Style Tank—And Gave It To Ukraine
Polish PT-91s during a 2017 exercise. U.S. Army photo The collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 left the Polish army’s tank corps in a precarious position. Poland’s tankers long had ridden in Soviet ta...
Iran’s Burgeoning Arms Exports To Russia Could Be A Sign Of Desperation
Iran is exporting a record number of its domestically-produced armed drones to Russia and will soon export its indigenous ballistic missiles to Moscow. A top Iranian general has also said that 22 coun...
Ukraine Is Capturing Russia’s Old T-62 Tanks. Will It Use Them?
A Ukrainian commando with a captured Russian T-62. Ukrainian defense ministry photo After losing around 700 tanks in Ukraine through this spring, the Russian army began pulling 50-year-old T-62 tanks ...
Remembering Mikhail Gorbachev
Steve Forbes and Mikhail Gorbechev in 1992. Forbes The Soviet Union was dissolved at the end of 1991. The following year Mikhail Gorbachev, now out of power, wanted to come to the U.S. with a small gr...
Martin Sixsmith’s Brilliant ‘The War of Nerves’
At some point in every calendar year I re-read Cato Institute co-founder Ed Crane’s 1981 essay, “Fear and Loathing In the Soviet Union.” A recap of his visit to the communist country, it astounded for...
McDonald’s exiting Russia after 32 years is the end of an era
Soviet customers stand in line outside the just opened first McDonald’s in the Soviet Union on January 31, 1990 at Moscow’s Pushkin Square. Vitaly Armand | Afp | Getty Images It was 4 a.m....
Harald Jahner’s Fascinating and Depressing ‘Aftermath’
“I spent my career as an academic studying great depressions. I can tell you from history that if we don’t act in a big way, you can expect another great depression, and this time it’s going to be far...
Filmmaker Ben Parker Comments On Rise Of Modern-Day Fascism Through Lens Of WW2 Thriller (Interview)
Charlotte Vega as “Brana” in Ben Parker’s “BURIAL.” tCourtesy of IFC Midnigh You’ve probably heard the adage a billion times: “Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it.” The immorta...