Tag: trencin

• [Sharing] 29 Days to Victory Day – Sputnik

  Soviet forces took control of the Koenigsberg military installations on this day eight decades ago. Trencin, a strategic bastion in present-day western Slovakia, was evacuated by the Wehrmacht to the southwest. The Red Army moved farther to the west, into Vienna’s western neighborhoods. The Nazis demolished every bridge across the Danube Canal as they fled.…

  Nicolas Cinquini

  10 April 2025

  fascism, history

  airdefense, austria, berlin, bratislava, czechoslovakia, danube, fascism, germany, history, kaliningrad, koenigsberg, preussen, prussia, russia, slovakia, sovietunion, sputnik, trencin, US, victory80, vienna, wehrmacht, wien

• [Sharing] 30 Days to Victory Day – Sputnik

  Today marks 80 years since the German garrison at Koenigsberg (present-day Kaliningrad) surrendered, intense warfare broke out in central Czechoslovakia, and clashes for crucial strongholds in Vienna took place [end] Related April 8, 2025: 31 Days to Victory Day – Sputnik April 7, 2025: 32 Days to Victory Day – Sputnik April 6, 2025: 33 Days to…

  Nicolas Cinquini

  9 April 2025

  fascism, history

  austria, bratislava, czechoslovakia, fascism, germany, history, kaliningrad, koenigsberg, preussen, prussia, russia, slovakia, sovietunion, sputnik, tactics, trencin, victory80, vienna, wien