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Baltic special military district, 150, 211 Bulgaria, 278
barrack villages, 226 Bulgarian communist uprising, 12
Batov, P. I., 194 Bushueva, Tatyana Semenovna, 109
Battle from the Sky (Starchak), 75 Byelorussian military district, 222
Battle of Balaton, 80 Byelostok bulge, 229
Battle of Khalkhin-Gol
as blitzkrieg, 115–116 cargo gliders, 76–77
logistics in, 119 Carpathian Mountains, 200–201
Soviet air superiority in, 105–106 Castro, Fidel, 101
suppression of propaganda on, 116 censorship, 116
use of aviation in, 114–115 Chelyabinsk tractor factory, 25–26
weapons used in, 116–117 chemical weapons development, 18
Battle of Kharkov, 78–79 Cherniakhovsky, I.D., 212, 220
Battle of Kursk, 245 Chernobyl disaster, xvii
Bavarian Soviet Republic, 5 China, 132, 274
Bazhanov, Boris, 12, 179, 207 Christie, George Walter, 50
Beer Hall Putsch, 14 Churchill, Winston, 203
Belgium, 234 letters to Stalin, 234–236, 247
Belorussia, partisan units in, 168 Soviet suspicions of, 233–234
Belostok bulge, 228, 230 Civil War, 1918–1921, 85
Belov, P., 197 coastal defense, 147–148
Berezhkov, Nikolai, 258 collectivization, 26–27
Berlin air raid, 182 Comintern
Berlin operation, 134 Bulgarian uprising and, 12
Berzin, Jan Karlovich, 99, 101, 102, 246 formation of, 6
Bessarabia, 145, 153, 156, 157, 193 German revolution and, 11
Biruzov, S.S., 86 on Russian invasion of Poland, 8–9
Bismarck (Germany), 235 Command Staff for Air Assault Troops, 75
black corps, 226–227 Communist newspapers, 4
Black Sea fleet, 194, 253 Communist Party purges, 92
blitzkrieg, 39, 112 Communist secret ideology, 6–7
Far East campaign as, 273, 275 Communist world revolution, 2, 4, 6, 8, 28, 31, 98,
in Mongolia and Poland, 115–117 180, 236
in Russia, 238 concentration camps, 24, 279
tanks as central to, 240 concentration of power, 233–234, 272
BM-8 rocket systems, 58–59 Conquest, Robert, 21, 207
BMW, 18 Crete operation, 235
Boldin, I. V., 216 Cripps, Stafford, 235
Bolsheviks, as cult, 1–2
bombers. See also strategic aviation; specific platforms Dal’stroy, 24
comparison of German and Soviet, 69–70 Danube military flotilla, 191–192, 194
Boris (Bulgaria), 12, 245 DB-A heavy bomber, 36
Borovich, Lev, 246 DB-1 long-distance bomber, 36
Bouche, G., 43 DB-3f bomber, 37, 69
Brain of the Army (Shaposhnikov), 123 defense line density, 185
Brauchitsch, W., 156 defense theory, 185–186
Brest defenses, 175 defensive military flotillas, 190–195
Brest-Litovsk Treaty, 3 Dimitrov, Georgy, 12, 109, 205
Brief Russian-German Military Phrase Book for Soldiers Dnepr-Bug Canal, 193–194
and Junior Commanders, A, 257–258 Dnepr military flotilla, 190–192, 194
BT-5 tank, 117 document classification system, 208, 213
BT tanks, 50–53 Douglas DC-3, 77
Buchenwald concentration camp, 279 Douhet, Giulio, 36
buffer states. See also specific states draft. See military draft
dismantling of Soviet defenses in, 162 Dunkirk evacuation, 234
as natural Soviet allies, 161 Dzerzhinski, Felix, 9
Soviet explanations concerning, 161 Dzhugashvili, Yakov Iosifovich, 258
in Soviet-German War, 254–255
Soviet occupation of, 150–152 “Early Period of the War, e” (in Voyna I Revo-
Bukharin, Nikolai, 12 lutsia), 71