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  1. To Prove A History Teacher Wrong

    Totally agree. After oil embargo and freezing Japanese accounts it was just the matter of time for Imperial Japan to react. But THAT kind of reaction from Japan even the most high-foreheaded strategists in the naval and army HQ might have not expected preparing themselves for probably a local or...

  2. WI: Soviets prepared

    Let's say with knowledge or without it, RAoWP (RKKA) was unprepared for the war. Obsolete doctrines both strategic and tactical, lack of really professional noncoms and regimental, division commanders who were completely doctrinally unprepared for the defensive war. RKKA had some really good...

  3. WI: Soviets prepared

    But Ukrainians and Byelorussians being not Russians technically may be considered the Russians in general - all right, Eastern Slavs, with fewer differences and greater number of the common cultural and linguistic traits they share. They all derive from Rus, after all. :D And they taken together...

  4. WI: Soviets prepared

    Well, actually, the Soviets didn't dismantle the Stalin's Line - at least not on scale, and the Line itself stopped the German offence on its front in Ukraine. The very disorder in Red Army helped the Germans to strike Kiev from the south. Well, Hitler would have collapsed with the stroke...

  5. To Prove A History Teacher Wrong

    Well, it' so difficult to try to understand the others, really.:rolleyes: Logically, the Japanese simply had to think ten times before launching a surprise attack on Pearl Harbour. How couldn't they understand that they were not equal economically to the USA? That by launching their attack on...

  6. Russian Culture and Economy Without WWI

    Where did you get that info about some unrest to happen in 1914? Despite some global economic stagnation before the WWI Russia was faring pretty well growing rapidly in economics, and first of all, in industrial economics. That's a common stereotype even among Russian home-made...

  7. Russian Culture and Economy Without WWI

    I would not say that. Simply because Russian and English alike do not see the distinction in the adjective "Russian" - русский (russkiy). Ukrainian conveys that distinction very clearly: руський (Russian derived from Rus) and російський (Russian derived from Greek-borrowed Rossiya). In the first...

  8. Russian Culture and Economy Without WWI

    I don't quite understand "is more ethnically "western" in this context, really. Pure stats beats any argument on ethnic composition in the Russian Empire. Even now, after all casualties of 20th century, the Russians themselves in the Russian Federation account for over 90% of total population...

  9. Russian Culture and Economy Without WWI

    Well, maybe it was temporary way back to the time of Odessa's construction. Odessa is a pre-designed city as well as St Petersburg or Washington DC. Even poor districts like aforementioned Peresyp and Moldavanka don't have, as far as I know, any cave-like dwellings.

  10. Russian Culture and Economy Without WWI

    Hey, Odessan catacombs were not used as living quarters. They were just the result of the building activity. :D You'd just walk along the streets of Moldavanka or Peresyp (districts of Odessa) and watch those caves.:rolleyes:

  11. Russian Culture and Economy Without WWI

    First and foremost, even if Franz Ferdinand escaped an assassination in Sarajevo, the Great War would have started anyway sooner or later. His assassination was just a legitimate excuse for a war not its real reason. :) Russian tradition autocracy dates back to Byzantium that once gave way to...

  12. Для славы для величия гегемония Новгород

    Again, and the Poles simply stood and waited for 6 cannon (mighty big number :)!) to start shooting them down with stone balls? And, again, you simply overestimate the impact of early fire arms on the medieval battles. Read the description of the Battle of Tannenberg/ Gruenwald (1410) where the...

  13. Для славы для величия гегемония Новгород

    You should read more on the battles of medieval Europe including using fire arms. I, from my side, may say that your idea of how the battles and sieges were waged is completely wrong. For example, the Poles were not novices in sieges and know where to post their troops and siege camp OUTSIDE the...

  14. Для славы для величия гегемония Новгород

    Ooh! Curiouser and curiouser! :D Well, let's go point by point. Well, it's true and not true at the same time. The Poles relied on their heavy knight cavalry heavily and had reasons to do so. The Teutons at Tannenberg/Gruenwald back in 1410 also used bombards against the Poles but were smashed...

  15. Для славы для величия гегемония Новгород

    Hey, it's over 30 years that Wladislav III has beem dead killed at Varna by the Turks. From the Varangian longswords. They were not the Normans but the Western Slavs instead.;)

  16. Для славы для величия гегемония Новгород

    Novgorod should first consolidate itself and that an ASBish task in itself. ;) You need the idea that might consolidate Novgorodians around Boretsky or any other at lieast in the shor-term perspective. Maybe, Mikhail Olelkovich will stay in Novgorod longer and the dispute between Pro-Lithuanian...

  17. Для славы для величия гегемония Новгород

    That's more than enough. And if he's initially successful, Polish nobility (Szlachta - read as shlyakhta) would readily join in.

  18. Для славы для величия гегемония Новгород

    He was also a king of Poland and Russian historians argue that the very threat of alliance made Ivan move his troops against Novgorod in 1471 as soon as the spring waters have sunk. To subdue Novgorod before the Poles and the Horde conclude a deal.;)

  19. Для славы для величия гегемония Новгород

    If something is not clear to you, I can try to help with the advise. If I don't know it, I, at least, may consult Russian text and chroncles, or my friends and colleagues on the Russian AH-Board. There would, of course, be a period of interregnum needed for Royars and princes to settle things...

  20. Для славы для величия гегемония Новгород

    Say it to the Poles.:p By the time of the Battle of Shelon' (not Shenlon :)) the Poles and the Lithuanians had already had peace with the Teuton Order and the Teutons submitted to Kazimir Yagellonczik as the vassals. Kazimir, of course, had peace signed with Basil II but in case of Novgorodians...
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