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And the tradition still continues to this day: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/russia/104... > Russia used complimentary 'Trojan horse' pen drives to spy on deleg…

Israel is not complaining AFAIK and their pilots are pretty much experienced since they're flying real missions right now.

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In 1941 Soviet Union: 1. Declared a hidden mobilization. 2. Increased term of military service. 3. Created ~20.000 tanks (hardly a defensive weapon). 4. Removed fortifications on o…

> The Continuation War was in large part pushed by the Germans As I can remember Parliament of Finland in 1941 was against the war... until Soviets decided to bomb them. So, one of…

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Maybe they will or maybe not. I can remember similar predictions about Japan and... let's say they didn't make it.

Whatabout US?

techmeme.com ?

Lenin was sent by Germany and financed by Germany. The only thing that Germany achieved was a peace on Eastern Front. After that Lenin decided to incite a revolution (or two) in Ge…

> The evidence is shaky at best I think nothing will please the 'believers' except the personal Putin's apology. And of course they might say that was just his double speaking.

> retaliating against foreign attacks on non-government entities So if they will blow up "non-government entity" it will be perfectly ok and will not require any retaliation? Where…

Soviets try to jam couple of short-wave stations: BBC, Voice of America and Deutsche Welle (at least). It _almost_ worked, you were able to hear them (although with some distortion…

Nope. Those Kremlin trolls are already on VPNs pretending to be 'real westerners'.

> First, you overestimate western media influence on Russian population, which is essentially so minor you can completely disregard it If it's so minor, why Kremlin (in current and…

> Historians believe Let me guess - Russian historians? Since the link you've pasted wasn't from historian.

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If you're cherry-pick anything, you will find plenty of demonstrably false statements anywhere.

> it's debatable on whether or not those bombings did indeed cause the surrender of Japan They were specifically mentioned in emperor's address. Yes, they caused the surrender. > N…

/r/askhistorians tend to be an echochamber and they like to silence anything that didn't fit their agenda.

> from the earliest days of the Soviet regime they faced foreign interventions Well, to show the world that they were peaceful, they've started... to invade and occupy their neighb…

> We were not producing commodities for the sake of profit. Definitely. Apple for sure is a non-profitable charity.

It's not interceptor, it's a multi-role stealth fighter. And still I'd say - yes, it's better.

No, they weren't accounted since US Army found them in all the strange places.

> The similarity between these and NASA's shuttle is stronger than I remember. Because USSR decided to copy Space Shuttle (instead of another competing Soviet-produced approach).