The Soviets increasingly were able to challenge the Luftwaffe, and while the Luftwaffe maintained a qualitative edge over the Red Air Force for much of the war, the increasing numbers and efficacy of the Soviet Air Force were critical to the Red Army's efforts at turning back and eventually annihilating the Wehrmacht.

Nonetheless, the Soviets maintained their doctrinal belief in the effectiveness of airborne forces, as part of their concept of " deep battle ", throughout the war.

The Soviets maintained three glider infantry regiments until 1965.

The Soviets maintained a distance of about between the two armies, and took Minsk on the 10th.

In addition, the Jews of Georgia have successfully maintained their Jewish identity and traditions despite the oppression they faced under the Soviets.

Unbelievably, for a time Johnson maintained — despite confirming air samples — that the Soviets had not really tested an atomic device at all.

For fifteen years the western powers maintained a tenacious hold on West Berlin under periodic harassment of the Soviets.

When Reshevsky maintained his strong contention late into the two-month event, Bronstein claims that the Soviets prearranged several results in games amongst themselves to successfully prevent Reshevsky's overall victory, while also ensuring that Reshevsky faced the maximum test in his own games against the Soviet players ; Bronstein had earlier ( 1995 ) written that he was ordered by the Soviet delegation leader to win as Black against Reshevsky in the second cycle at Zurich, and managed to do so after a very hard struggle.

In the years immediately following 1945, the Soviets maintained Hitler was not dead, but had fled and was being shielded by former western allies.

Pătrăşcanu ( together with Emil Bodnăraş, who maintained links with the Soviets ) represented the Communist Party during the clandestine talks with the National Liberal and National Peasants ' parties, aimed at overthrowing the Antonescu dictatorship.

The Soviets maintained a strong space program until economic problems led to cutbacks in the 1980s.

The journalist Drew Pearson maintained that the Soviets, encountering resistance to demands for grain and for military support from nationalist Communist leaders in Eastern Europe who had spent the war outside the USSR, used the myth of a Field-led spy network to purge them all.

Although U. S. Army studies of World War II combat accounts had very similar results to that of the Germans and Soviets, the U. S. Army maintained its traditional views and preference for powerful accurate semi-automatic rifles.

Byrnes says that invariably thereafter the Soviets used the same security argument to justify their course in Poland.

Later it developed that the Soviets had a very different interpretation of democracy, which will be discussed later, and their judgment never told them that the Big Three should unite in establishing democratic conditions, as we understand them, within their zone of influence.

Later in the war, both the Germans and the Soviets introduced fully armored purpose-built assault guns into their arsenals.

The Soviets went on to develop an improved air-droppable assault gun, the ASU-85, which served through the 1980s, while their SU-100 remained in service with Communist countries, including Vietnam and Cuba, years after WW2.

Furthermore, if the Soviets chose to enter this new arms race, they would further cripple their economy.

The Soviets could not afford to ignore Reagan ’ s new endeavor, therefore their policy at the time was to enter negotiations with the Americans.

The principles of the doctrine were so broad that the Soviets even used it to justify their military intervention in the non-Warsaw Pact nation of Afghanistan in 1979.

The Soviets derided " the futile attempts of the Americans to save face and to maintain their untenable position in Berlin.

" The success of the airlift eventually caused the Soviets to lift their blockade in May 1949.

The Soviets, who at the time were well behind the West in jet technology, reverse-engineered the Nene, and installed their own version in the MiG-15 interceptor, used to good effect against US-UK forces in the subsequent Korean War, as well as in several later MiG models.

Publicly, the Soviets would dismantle their offensive weapons in Cuba and return them to the Soviet Union, subject to United Nations verification, in exchange for a US public declaration and agreement never to invade Cuba.

Only two weeks after the agreement, the Soviets had removed the missile systems and their support equipment, loading them onto eight Soviet ships from November 5 – 9.

The Soviets continued their Maskirovka program to conceal their actions in Cuba.

He first told the Americans that they would be welcome in talks between the Soviet Union and China, then secretly told the Soviets that the Americans were unimportant and that their opinions would not be considered.

Despite its status as part of an occupied city, East Berlin was claimed as the capital of East Germany, as the Soviets did not honor the distinction of a free city for their sector.

This was the second Soviet EVA, and it would be almost another nine years before the Soviets performed their third.

Most of the élite of media and politics shifted their attitudes to match the values that the Soviets were thought to favour and approve.

In 1927, the Soviet Union's Chess Federation established the title of Grandmaster of the Soviet Union, for their own players, since at that time Soviets were not competing outside their own country.

Disagreements over the policies to be followed in the occupied zones quickly led to a breakdown in cooperation between the four powers, and the Soviets administered their zone without regard to the policies implemented in the other zones.

A few days later, Voss was brought back to the bunker by the Soviets to identify the partly burned bodies of Joseph and Magda Goebbels and the bodies of their children.

That year, the introduction of a new offensive skill, the backrow attack, allowed Poland to win the men's competition over the Soviets in a very tight five-set match.

The tight schedules and lofty goals selected by NASA for lunar exploration also had an undeniable element of generating counter-propaganda to show to other countries that American technological prowess was the equal and even superior to that of the Soviets.

In 1976, the introduction of a new offensive skill, the back row attack, helped Poland win the competition over the Soviets in a very tight five-setter.

According to Mehnert, the Soviets attempt to control academic historiography ( the writing of history by academic historians ) to promote ideological and ethno-racial imperialism by Russians.

Hanssen was nearly exposed in 1981, when Bonnie Hanssen caught her husband in their basement writing a letter to the Soviets.

The expulsion was facilitated, according to Seldes, after his publisher, Colonel Robert McCormick, failed to show sufficient respect when writing to the Soviets to protest censorship.

Tom Wolfe, writing in 2009 at the 40th anniversary of the launch of Apollo 11, credited Dryden with having been the individual who spoke up, with President John F. Kennedy in April, 1961, and suggested that manned flight to the moon was the way to " catch up " with the Soviets in the space race.

Volkov had insisted that all written communications about him take place by diplomatic bag rather than by telegraph, causing a delay in reaction that might plausibly have given the Soviets time to uncover his plans.

The Soviets were to receive a naval cruiser, the plans to the battleship Bismarck, heavy naval guns, other naval gear and thirty of Germany's latest warplanes, including the Me-109 and Me-110 fighters and Ju-88 bomber.

Although original plans called for all-Korean elections sponsored by the United Nations in 1948, Kim persuaded the Soviets not to allow the UN north of the 38th parallel.

Patton's operations staff was drafting plans to take Prague, when Eisenhower, under pressure from the Soviets, ordered American forces in Czechoslovakia to stop short of the city limits.

On September 17 the Soviets invaded eastern Poland, forcing the Polish government and military to abandon their plans for a long-term defense in the Romanian bridgehead area.

In April 1962, the Soviets scrapped plans to host the fair due to financial constraints and security concerns.

Earlier maps and plans indicated that the Soviets would occupy an area that included the Potsdam-approved final Soviet Zone along with all of the 1937 German territory east of the Oder-Neisse Line.

It was only the Polish victory against the Soviets in the Polish – Soviet War ( and the fact that the Poles did not object to some form of Lithuanian independence ) that derailed the Soviet plans and gave Lithuania an experience of interwar independence.

While the X-Men attacked Asteroid M to rescue Moira and stop Magneto's plans, the Soviets launched a particle beam satellite which destroyed Asteroid M. Betrayed and abandoned at the last minute by Cortez, Magneto refused Xavier's pleas to escape with the X-Men back to Earth and he and his followers seemingly perished in the subsequent explosion.

The treaty contributed to the failure of Józef Piłsudski's plans to create a Polish-led Intermarium federation of Eastern European countries, as portions of the territory proposed for the federation were ceded to the Soviets.

Kennan tried repeatedly to persuade policymakers to abandon plans for cooperation with the Soviet Union in favor of a sphere of influence approach in Europe to reduce the Soviets ' power there.

The rejection of Le Corbusier's competition entry for the Palace of the Soviets, a watershed moment and an indication that the Soviets had abandoned CIAM's principles, changed those plans.

The Comprehensive Program for Scientific and Technical Progress up to the Year 2000 was originally to be ratified in 1986, but the Soviets advocated an earlier date of completion to enable the Comecon countries to incorporate their commitments to implement the program in their next five-year plans ( which started in January 1986 ).

Truman ordered the development of a hydrogen bomb ; in early 1950 the U. S. embarked on its first attempt to prop up colonialism in French Indochina in the face of mounting popular, communist-led resistance ; and the United States embarked on what the Soviets considered a blatant violation of wartime treaties: plans to form a West German army.

The documents described Moscow's strategic plans regarding the use of nuclear weapons, technical data about the T-72 tank and Strela-1 missiles, the whereabouts of Soviet anti-aircraft bases in Poland and East Germany, the methods used by the Soviets to avoid spy satellite detection of their military hardware, plans for the imposition of martial law in Poland, and many other matters.

Jordan plans a reverse slope defense, not attacking the Soviets at the logical choke point.

Stalin had shown considerable suspicion of any information from the Americans or British about German plans to invade Russia in 1941, so an Allied effort to find a way to get helpful information to the Soviets in a form that would not be dismissed is, at least, not implausible.

The Soviets were to receive a naval cruiser, the plans to the battleship Bismarck, heavy naval guns, other naval gear and thirty of Germany's latest warplanes, including the Me-109 fighter, Me-110 fighter and Ju-88 bomber.

Shortly after the Berling landings, the Soviets decide to postpone all plans for a river crossing in Warsaw " for at least 4 months ", and soon afterwards General Berling was relieved of his command.

The decision to start the Uprising was rushed several times: first on 20 July, when plans for Operation Tempest were changed to include Warsaw ( after the series of reports on aggressive actions by Soviets toward Home Army units in the eastern territories ), then on 31 July when exaggerated reports of approaching Russian forces convinced some decision makers that if they did not start the Uprising soon it would be too late to aid the Russians and ' make a stand '.

Shortly after the Berling landings, the Soviets decide to postpone all plans for a river crossing in Warsaw " for at least 4 months " and soon afterwards general Berling was relieved of his command.

A subsequent claim was made by Ron Westrum in his book " Sidewinder " that the Soviets obtained the plans for Sidewinder from Swedish Colonel and convicted spy Stig Wennerström, and rushed their version into service by 1961 copying it so closely that even the part numbers were duplicated.