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A Heinkel HE 111 light bomber like the one Mikhail Devyatayev and his comrades stole in 1945. (Flickr) On this day in 1945, Soviet fighter pilot Mikhail Devyatayev and 9 others escaped from a Nazi labour camp located in the Baltic Sea. Shot down over the Eastern Front in 1944, Devyatayev was captured by German…
The meeting at Yalta. From L to R: Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin. (Wikimedia Commons) On this day in 1945, Allied leaders met in Yalta, Crimea, to discuss the division of Europe in the wake of WWII. As the war drew to a close and it became clear that the Axis were nearing their end, the…
A Polish crowd welcomes a Soviet ISU-152 tank to Warsaw. Their enthusiasm was likely short-lived. (Twitter.com) On this day in 1945, units of the Soviet Red Army launched the Vistula-Oder Offensive, an effort to capture strategic Polish population centres including Warsaw and Kraków near the end of WWII. Under the command of Soviet Marshals Georgy…
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