VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: Our Brezhnev, Our Pravda, Our Soviet Union
Leonid Brezhnev led the former Soviet Union as General Secretary of the Communist Party until 1982. But like many Russian bureaucrats who struggled with excessive smoking, drinking and weight gain, he aged prematurely. And like many of them, his disability did not cause him to abdicate. In his late 60s and early 70s, Brezhnev’s growing […]
Britain is Now Making Spare Parts For Old Soviet Tanks
The company, which manufactures tracks for most of Britain’s armored vehicles and other allied armored vehicles around the world, uses tank parts and documents kept in museums to keep the Ukrainian army active, as well as old Soviet vehicles. Reverse engineered the design. The world’s largest tank museum has hired a historic British family-run engineering […]