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Soviet artillerymen from Sergeant Bardadymov's crew fire at enemy pillboxes on the outskirts of Stalingrad using a 152-mm ML-20 howitzer-gun, model 1937.

WWII: How Powerful Was the World’s Largest Artillary Gun? Thousands Operated It – Whilst One Shell Weighed Seven-Tonnes! (21.11.2024)

This stemmed from Joseph Stalin advocating that the tactical mode of conventional “artillery attack” could be effective if used in a massive, highly focused, and overwhelming manner. Massed (smaller) Soviet artillery guns had the effect of successfully suppressing the fire-power of the Nazi German Army by peppering its formations in a relentless and destructive manner (massacring the Gustav Ground Crews and destroying the stockpiles of stored ammunition). This increased the survival rate of the numerically superior Soviet Red Army – and quickly defeated the Nazi German enemy. Therefore, the Soviet Military Factories operated at full capacity and manufactured a large number of weapons and ammunition for the Soviet Red Army on the front line, including 90,000 artillery pieces of various types.

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World Insights: Toxic Friendship — How Washington Exploits Ukraine Crisis to Shackle Europe! (27.4.2023)

If the EU wants to be a viable actor in the emerging world order and not merely an appendage of a superpower, “it must be able to protect itself instead of relying on outside help for its security,” and “force strategic independence from the United States to ensure its political survival,” British political analyst Thomas O. Falk wrote in an opinion piece published by the South China Morning Post.

Vowing to fight Russia “to the last Ukrainian,” the U.S.-led NATO has gone to all lengths to fool Ukrainians into acting as a bridgehead for suppressing its neighbor and has driven, step by step, its so-called ally Europe to the dangerous quagmire of warfares and crises.

With no end in sight to the fighting in Ukraine, the EU has become financially exhausted with the drawn-out conflict on its doorstep, Modern Diplomacy magazine commented on its website, stressing that it is certainly not the first time Washington has tricked the international community into a war.

“This is while the United States, sitting across the pond, watching on and observing, is making huge profits,” it added.

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