Mykola Saichuk

You won't find this on the internet. The world was much more complex then than it seems now.

I recommend another good book by Michael Cohen: "Strategy and Politics in the Middle East 1954-1960. Defending the Northern Tier" (2005). This book is available online. The author continues with the same conclusions. Yes, at the beginning of the Iran-Iraq War, the USSR even banned military supplies to Iraq. But this was done only for the sake of a good political position (instead of the USSR, Romania supplied ammunition to Saddam Hussein with Soviet consent). In return, the USSR obtained from Iran the right to fly its naval aircraft over Iranian territory to Indian ocean, and two or three Soviet radar stations operated in southern Iran for several years.

Yes, sir! I spoke with two generals who were involved in logistical support for operations in the Transcaucasian Military District during that period. They are now in the Ukrainian army. They gave me a clear answer: there was no offensive operation against Iran. They were not involved in planning the logistical support for such an operation or such a troop grouping. The tasks in the Iranian direction were purely defensive. So the CIA and Pentagon experts were looking for a budget and cook the books.

The CIA's "soviet plan" to invade Iran seems to have been devised by the same experts.

The whole situation is a case of laughter through tears. I don't know whether to laugh or cry. Were those the CIA's best years?

If it's not in English, it doesn't count 😁

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Here are the opening pages. July-August 1945.

I was shocked myself when I saw this. And I managed to copy everything before the links became inactive. There was still a lot of interesting stuff there. For example, a military intelligence report on the state of fortifications in Greece (the "Metaxas Line")... An order from the commander of the 79th Guards Rifle Corps to find all descriptions of Western European countries made in German headquarters...

and how much fun the pilots themselves had on the plane!

Airfields for the Tu-4 were even built in Chukotka and on the ice in the Arctic Ocean.

These are documents from the 79th Guards Rifle Corps from the website https://pamyat-naroda.ru The direct link is no longer active. You should search the website for documents from this corps. It conducted a study of the British Army in June 1945, and in September 1945, it conducted a command and staff exercise (an offensive against the defenses of an opposing British infantry division). I only have scans of the documents left. https://pamyat-naroda.ru https://podvignaroda.ru They were preparing to cross the Elbe River (British troops were stationed on the western bank)

There are already declassified maps of Soviet forces in Germany in May-June 1945, which they used to plan combat operations against British troops. They were developed by division and corps headquarters in their zone of contact with the British. I don't think Russia realized they'd declassified them. 😁

I will show you a photograph from my collection. It is an electrified training stand from a soviet fighter pilot school for fighting "Flying Fortresses."

"Схема положения Западного театра военных действий." You can change the name of the TVD. I used Western TVD as an example.