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February 25, 2018

Feature History – Russo-Japanese War

Filed under: China, History, Japan, Military, Russia — Tags: , , , — Nicholas @ 02:00

Feature History
Published on 28 May 2017

Hello and welcome to Feature History, featuring a Russian and Japanese disagreement, and why you don’t record when sick.

February 23, 2018

Cuban Missile Crisis – Eyeball to Eyeball – Extra History – #2

Extra Credits
Published on 22 Feb 2018

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After President Kennedy’s television address, tensions are rising. Fidel Castro is getting annoyed at the US and Soviet Union alike, and everyone else has their own ideas on what retaliation looks like.

Operation Faustschlag – Germany Advances In The East Again I THE GREAT WAR Week 187

Filed under: Britain, Germany, History, Military, Russia, WW1 — Tags: , , , , — Nicholas @ 04:00

The Great War
Published on 22 Feb 2018

Germany has had enough with the stalling tactics by the Bolsheviks and is unleashing its military might on the Eastern Front again to show who is in charge. Within the first days of Operation Faustschlag, the German Army marches on Kiev and the Baltic region. At the same time, the plans for a German spring offensive in the West are getting more pronounced.

February 20, 2018

Russian Rifles of World War 1 I THE GREAT WAR Special feat. C&Rsenal

Filed under: History, Military, Russia, Weapons, WW1 — Tags: , — Nicholas @ 04:00

The Great War
Published on 19 Feb 2018

Othais’ video about the Winchester Contract Rifle: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4grSRn5wnHI

Indy and Othais from C&Rsenal talk about Russian Rifles during World War 1.

February 17, 2018

Cuban Missile Crisis – I: The Failed Checkmate – Extra History

Extra Credits
Published on 15 Feb 2018

An eye for an eye, a missile for a missile — that’s how the saying goes, right? So thought the Soviet Union and the United States in the early fall of 1962, kicking off a 13-day staring contest that scared the world.

February 16, 2018

No War, No Peace – Trotsky’s Gamble I THE GREAT WAR Week 186

Filed under: Britain, Germany, History, Military, Russia, WW1 — Tags: , , , , — Nicholas @ 06:00

The Great War
Published on 15 Feb 2018

The negotiations between the Bolsheviks, the German High Command and Austria-Hungary reach a new low this week 100 years ago. Leon Trotsky is playing for time since the revolutions in Berlin and Vienna are only a matter of time in his opinion. At the same time, the Ukrainians are try to get German aid against the Bolsheviks against Ukrainian grain for the starving German population.

February 14, 2018

Russian Pistols of World War 1 I THE GREAT WAR Special feat. C&Rsenal

Filed under: History, Military, Russia, Weapons, WW1 — Tags: , , — Nicholas @ 06:00

The Great War
Published on 13 Feb 2018

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Indy talks to our weapons expert Othais about the Russian Pistols of World War 1.

February 13, 2018

Feature History – Seven Years’ War

Filed under: Americas, Britain, Europe, France, History, India, Military, Russia — Tags: , , , — Nicholas @ 02:00

Feature History
Published on 14 Jan 2017

Hello and welcome to Feature History, featuring the Seven Years’ War, an overdue video, and the reason you don’t record after just waking up

February 4, 2018

The Winter War: A Soviet Failure

Filed under: Europe, History, Military, Russia, WW2 — Tags: , , , , — Nicholas @ 02:00

KnowledgeHub
Published on 29 Dec 2017

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In the midst of WWII, Stalin decided to invade the small nation of Finland. It did not go the way he wanted it to. This is the story of the quagmire of 1939 that often isn’t talked about between the Fins and the Russians.

Music:
Russian Slapstick by Hakan Erikson
Dramatic Orchestral Strings by Gavin Luke
Winds of Winter by Yi Natiro

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February 2, 2018

Strikes and Mutiny I THE GREAT WAR Week 184

Filed under: Europe, Germany, Greece, History, Military, Russia, WW1 — Tags: , , , — Nicholas @ 04:00

The Great War
Published on 1 Feb 2018

Public opinion is turning against the war for the Central Powers but not only that, mutinies are also happening more frequently. Winning the war will be a race against time for Ludendorff and Germany’s allies. Within the month, the biggest German offensive of the war is to be unleashed.

January 28, 2018

Day 13 Cuban Missile Crisis – The End to End All Things and Almost Everything

TimeGhost
Published on 21 Dec 2017

On Sunday, 28 October, 1962 the Cuban Missile Crisis is supposed to end, but there are still two nuclear armed Soviet submarines in the waters around the island hunted by the US Navy. And what about Fidel Castro?

January 27, 2018

Day 12 Cuban Missile Crisis – Black Saturday, nuclear war on autopilot…

TimeGhost
Published on 7 Dec 2017

On October 27, 1962 a deal to resolve the Cuban Missile Crisis is ever so close, but then almost everything that can go wrong, goes wrong. Political confusion between the leaders, lost and shot down airplanes, errant nuclear armed submarines and exhaustion takes its toll. For those immediately involved it will go down in memory as the Black Saturday.

January 26, 2018

Day 11 Cuban Missile Crisis – Will President Kennedy invade Cuba after all?

TimeGhost
Published on 30 Nov 2017

On 26 October 1962, USSR Premier Nikita Khrushchev is preparing to offer the US an olive branch. Meanwhile US President John F Kennedy continue to plan an invasion of Cuba. While the politicians make new plans, their previous military plans take on a life of their own

January 25, 2018

Day 10 Cuban Missile Crisis – Showdown at the U.N. Corral

TimeGhost
Published on 27 Nov 2017

On October 25, 1962 while the US Navy are looking for something to do in the Caribbean, both USSR Chairman Khrushchev and US President Kennedy are questioning the success of their actions. Meanwhile US Ambassador to the UN Adlai Stevenson is about to face off with USSR Ambassador to the UN, Valerian Zorin in a historic showdown at the United Nations headquarters in New York.

January 24, 2018

Day 9 Cuban Missile Crisis – Blockade starts and low altitude flybys over Cuba

TimeGhost
Published on 23 Nov 2017

On October 24, 1962 the US led blockade on Cuba goes into effect, but it’s not the be the showdown that it looks like! In the same time the US Navy starts flying RF8 Crusader reconnaissance jets 400 feet over the missile sites on Cuba, to see what’s really going on. As the jets roar over the heads of the Cuban and Soviet soldiers, the crisis deepens.

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