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World War II
June 22, Hitler launched an invasion on the Soviet Union. Stalin was confident that the total allied war machine would stop Germany. Over the next four years, the Soviet Union repulsed Axis offensives. -
Guerrilla war in the Baltic states
The Guerrilla war in the Baltic states or the Forest Brothers resistance movement was the armed struggle against Soviet rule that spanned from 1940 to the mid-1950s. ... Proportionally, the partisan movement in the post-war Baltic states was of a similar size as the Viet Cong movement in South Vietnam. -
Economic facts
In 1952, the dictator's next-to-last year, Soviet industry produced about 6.5 times as much as it did at the beginning of the five-year plans in 1928. -
Economic facts
Steel production increased eight fold to 34.5 million tons, coal 8.5 times to 301 million tons, and electric power 23 times to 116 billion kilowatt hours. In a quarter-century the U.S.S.R. became the world's second industrial Power. -
Economic facts
Although the increase in industrial output consisted chiefly of "heavy" goods, the Russians probably produced more manufactured consumer goods per capital in 1952 than in 1928. They produced much more paper, soap and numerous other products.
