Exploring 20th Century Russian History
A blog by Michael Erickson
With Their Tanks, and Their Bombs, and Their Bombs, and Their Guns: Soviet Arms Exports
In the late 1970s and early 1980s, the Soviet Union was the largest arms exporter in the world. According to Robbin Laird’s article “Soviet Arms Trade with the Noncommunist Third World”, in 1980 the USSR was responsible for 34% of the world’s arms exports. A CIA report from 1980 places the value of those sales…
Read More With Their Tanks, and Their Bombs, and Their Bombs, and Their Guns: Soviet Arms ExportsLet’s Talk About Tanks Baby: T-34 and Soviet Armor in the Second World War
Over the last week, we’ve been talking about the inexorible Soviet war machine that, once awakened, slowly ground the Nazis into the dirt. It did this through shear inexaustible weight of men, materiel, and machines. For this week’s blog post, I want to focus on the “war machine” part of that war machine, in particular…
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