The Soviets started the war as allies with Nazi Germany. It would possibly be a much different world we live in now if they had stayed that way.
1 posted on
08/29/2018 1:14:15 PM PDT by
fugazi
To: ro_dreaming; FreedomPoster; mass55th
2 posted on
08/29/2018 1:14:52 PM PDT by
fugazi
To: fugazi
Also the anniversary of Joe 1, the first Soviet atomic test in 1949.
To: fugazi
The Soviets (Russia) would probably be much better off today if we had defeated them in WWII or shortly thereafter.
4 posted on
08/29/2018 1:20:28 PM PDT by
Moonman62
(Give a man a fish and he'll be a Democrat. Teach a man to fish and he'll be a responsible citizen.)
To: fugazi
As far as I’m aware, the first American military casualty of the cold war was inflicted by the ChiComs on 8/25/45 when they killed John Birch.
5 posted on
08/29/2018 1:22:04 PM PDT by
Joe 6-pack
(Qui me amat, amat et canem meum.)
To: fugazi
http://www.silent-warriors.com/shootdown_list.html
here it says the b29 was forced to land?
29 August 1945 Soviet pilot Zizevskii, flying a Yak-9 Frank, damaged a US Army Air Force B-29 Superfortress dropping supplies to a POW camp near Hamhung Korea and forced it to land. The crew of the B-29 was not injured in the attack.
but and interested cold war list to review for all
6 posted on
08/29/2018 1:26:59 PM PDT by
PeterPrinciple
(Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
To: fugazi
8 posted on
08/29/2018 1:29:04 PM PDT by
abb
("News reporting is too important to be left to the journalists." Walter Abbott (1950 -))
To: fugazi
To: fugazi
Served in a sister company to the 95th MP Bn. God give this brave brothers soul peace.
17 posted on
08/29/2018 3:26:05 PM PDT by
glaseatr
(Father of a Marine, Uncle of SGT Adam Estep. A Co. 2/5 Cav. KIA Thurs April 29, 2004 Baghdad Iraq)
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