scholarly journals Lieutenant-Colonel Constantin Apostol, From Glory To Unfair Humiliation

2019 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 230-233
Author(s):  
Gheorghe Calcan
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Communist Regime ◽  
Military Operations ◽  
World War ◽  
Military Studies ◽  
Military Career ◽  
Home Town ◽  
Horse Riding ◽  
The Military ◽  
First Time

Abstract Constantin Apostol (1903-1995) was a prominent representative of the interwar Romanian horse riding [1]. He was born in Săgeata, Buzău County [2], attended primary school in his home town, high school in Buzău and military studies in Târgovişte and Sibiu. As far as his military career is concerned, C. Apostol advanced up to the rank of a lieutenant-colonel. He participated in various international competitions, winning many awards, including the first prize, in countries, such as: England, Austria, Belgium, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, Germany, France, Italy, Poland. He took part in the military operations of World War II, both in the East and in the West, being decorated for his actions on both war fields. After the establishment of the communist regime, Constantin Apostol was continuosly humiliated, and finally imprisoned. In our work, the author aims to present, for the first time ever, precisely this final stage of his life.

Mahal and the Dispossession of the Palestinians

2011 ◽  
Vol 40 (2) ◽  
pp. 43-61
Author(s):  
Dan Freeman-Maloy
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Military Operations ◽  
World War ◽  
World War Ii Veterans ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
English Speaking World ◽  
Israel Defense Forces ◽  
The Military ◽  
Aerial Combat

The participation of thousands of overseas volunteers (the Mahal) in Zionist military operations conducted throughout the 1948 war has received insufficient critical attention. Mainly English-speaking World War II veterans recruited by the Zionist movement in the West for their expertise in such needed specializations as artillery, armored warfare, and aerial combat, the Mahal's importance to the military effort far exceeded their numbers. Situating their involvement within the broader historical context of Western support for the Zionist project, this article examines their role within the Haganah and Israel Defense Forces (particularly in aerial and armored units) in operations involving the violent depopulation of Palestinian communities.

scholarly journals Gafur Pulatov: The Cry Of Herirud

2021 ◽  
Vol 03 (06) ◽  
pp. 149-157
Author(s):  
Sharafutdinov Khursanbay ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
World War Ii ◽  
Great Power ◽  
Human History ◽  
Military Operations ◽  
World War ◽  
The Military

The twentieth century, the age of universal discoveries, went down in history as the greatest war in human history - World War II. But in this century, which is not fed up with war, there have been many more wars, big and small. The invasion of Afghanistan by Soviet troops and the military operations there showed that the decline of the army, which had great power as a war that made no sense, was also leading to the disintegration of the world's largest empire. This is what is told in the military-field story "Cry of Herirud".

Carpatho-Ukraine’s Defeat as a Precursor of WWII Part 2

Rusin ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 136-158
Author(s):  
A.I. Kudriachenko ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Second World War ◽  
The State ◽  
The Political ◽  
Military Operations ◽  
World War ◽  
Hybrid War ◽  
The Military ◽  
First Time ◽  
Second World ◽  
Significant Factors

The author emphasizes that the growing national self-identification and selfawareness of the Ukrainians, the political balance of powers at the turn of 1938– 1939 in Czechoslovakia and the international arena were significant factors in the state aspirations of the residents of the Transcarpathian region. At the same time, the processes of autonomization, formation, and liquidation of Carpatho-Ukraine were determined not only by its socio-economic position, but also by the latent diplomatic and geopolitical confrontation. The establishment of Carpatho-Ukraine was associated with the military confrontation and, for the first time, was accompanied not only by a number of military operations, but also by the massive heroism of its defenders, who opposed the invaders. According to the current definitions, all this constituted the hybrid war, which became the harbinger and real percursor of the Second World War.

scholarly journals "Legality" of the Legal Order in Postwar Serbia From 1944 to 1946: Organization and Work of the Judiciary

2020 ◽  
pp. 158-183
Author(s):  
Valerija Dabetić
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Political Culture ◽  
Political Influence ◽  
Communist Regime ◽  
Presumption Of Innocence ◽  
World War ◽  
Full Sense ◽  
Internal Morality ◽  
Legislative Activity ◽  
The Military

The judiciary in Serbia is heir to a long tradition of political influence, which was particularly visible during the communist regime after World War II. Violations of the presumption of innocence, retroactive sentencing and a denial of basic human rights are just some of the features of the work of the postwar “judiciary” in Serbia, between 1944 and 1946. This paper analyzes the implications of revolutionary legislative activity, the structure and organization of the Military Court and the Court of Honor, and examines to what extent the dominant political culture, implemented through the state coercive apparatus, influenced judicial adjudication. The paper elaborates on Radbruch’s idea of “statutory lawlessness”, Fuller’s notion of “procedural natural law” and “internal morality of law” and argues that the postwar law of communist Serbia did not exercise formal and procedural justice, and cannot be called a legal system in the full sense of the word.

Organization and Activities of the Military Tribunals of the Leningrad Front during the Defense of Leningrad

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. 5-19
Author(s):  
N. A. Petukhov ◽  
◽  
Yu. M. Kuntsevich ◽  
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Future Generations ◽  
World War ◽  
Archival Material ◽  
Soviet People ◽  
Military Tribunal ◽  
Great Patriotic War ◽  
The Military ◽  
First Time ◽  
Legal Training

75 years passed after the end of the Great Patriotic War, during which the Soviet people made the main contribution to the victory over the worst enemy of mankind – Hitler Germany. It is necessary to remember this and keep forever for future generations the heroic deeds and exploits of the Soviet people in the harsh years of World War II. This article on a large factual archival material comprehensively describes the activities of the military tribunal of the Leningrad Front in the conditions of the Great Patriotic War. For the first time, issues such as the formation of military tribunals of the front, the organization of military judicial work, the forms and methods of legal training of judges and the interaction of the tribunals with the Military Council of the Leningrad Front were reflected.

Modern military relief forms of Chernihiv Region – their types, morphological and morphometric features

2019 ◽  
Vol 96 (4-6) ◽  
pp. 36-42
Author(s):  
Yurii Filonenko ◽  
Roman Fedorets
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Anthropogenic Activities ◽  
Field Research ◽  
Forest Steppe ◽  
Military Operations ◽  
World War ◽  
Mass Graves ◽  
Morphometric Features ◽  
The Military ◽  
The Village

Investigation into relief forms which arose on the territory of Chernihiv region in the 2nd half of the 20th and the beginning of the 21st centuries from anthropogenic activities for military purposes were conducted in all districts of the region. During the work field research was actively used as well as encyclopaedic and Internet materials were applied. The morphological and morphometric features of denudation and accumulative forms of military relief which appear as a result of military operations and exercises, construction of warehouses and equipment of their security zones, erection of defence objects and arrangement of mass graves (fraternal graves) and so on were studied in detail. In particular, defensive fighting positions (including tank and cannon), trenches, breastworks, blindages, dugouts, traces of grenades from shells and bombs together with areas of proving grounds, training centres, airfields and monuments of various sizes and shapes were explored. The research results suggest that most objects which can be classified as military relief forms of World War II naturally occur in places where major battles in strategically important directions of offensive of both opposing sides took place. The findings also revealed that many military relief forms of the WWII period have undergone significant deformation as a result of development of scree formation processes, plane erosion, eolian processes, influence of various representatives of biota as well as agricultural and forestry human activities. In addition, in the southern (forest-steppe) part of the region such relief forms occur considerably less frequently than in the northern (Polissia). This is most likely due to greater plowing of the territory and, consequently, greater anthropogenic load of the agrarian type, which relatively quickly levelled military relief forms in the postwar period. A special place among all the objects of military relief of Chernihiv region of the WWII period is occupied by the museum-memorial complex of guerrilla glory “Lisograd”. It is located in the middle of forest near the village of Jeline in Snovsk district. Here, on the site of the former guerrilla camp, defensive fighting positions, trenches and residential (dugouts) structures of those times were reconstructed in the 2000s. The largest modern military relief forms within the territory of Chernihiv region are the military proving ground in Honcharivske (Chernihiv district), the Desna training center with its own proving ground near Desna (Kozelets district) as well as functioning and defunct military airfields and air bases near Horodnia, Dobrianka, in the village of Maliiky (Chernihiv district), Chernihiv, Pryluky and Nizhyn.

Going Home Again: America After Vietnam

Worldview ◽  
1972 ◽  
Vol 15 (10) ◽  
pp. 30-36
Author(s):  
Richard John Neuhaus
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
World War ◽  
Air War ◽  
Deja Vu ◽  
Déjà Vu ◽  
The Military ◽  
First Time

The “After Vietnam” in the title says something about the American mood, not about the military realities of America's war in Indochina. This reminder is unfortunately necessary, for too many of us seem able to forget the brutal air war in which our country has dropped more than six and a half million tons of bombs (more than three times the bomb tonnage dropped on Europe, Africa and Asia in all of World War II) on a region about the size of Texas. There is a fearful deja vu about accepting an invitation to speak to “American conscience and consciousness after Vietnam,” for the first time I spoke to the “post-Vietnam” situation was in 1968, and one cannot help wondering if in 1976 this present statement will seem as naively sanguine as does that of 1968. Nonetheless, and if for no other reason than to maintain our sanity, it is inevitable that we reach beyond the present horror and try to anticipate the shape of American conscience and consciousness after these years of madness.

Pre-Colonial Military Studies in Africa

1975 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 469-481 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. N. Uzoigwe
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Southern Africa ◽  
Societal Change ◽  
Contemporary Society ◽  
World War ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
Military Studies ◽  
The Military ◽  
Coups D'etat

The study of the military as an agent of societal change began to attract the serious attention of western social scientists after World War II. Since then the independence of the African states has given rise to many coups d'état, thereby awakening the concern of Africanist scholars in the rôle of the military in contemporary society. Predictably, this interest has largely been confined to recent military developments, including the liberation movements in Southern Africa and Guinea–Bissau.

scholarly journals Narrative sources on the events of the Great patriotic war in the Kuban

2020 ◽  
pp. 88-93
Author(s):  
Ju. G. Bich ◽  
T. A. Samsonenko ◽  
E. L. Mishustina
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Southern Region ◽  
Soviet Period ◽  
World War ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Military ◽  
Difficult Times ◽  
First Time ◽  
The Village ◽  
The City

This article presents the results of studies on the daily history of the Soviet period of our state during the difficult times of World War II. The work considers the southern region of the USSR, the territory of the Krasnodar Territory (the city of Krasnodar and the village of Pavlovskaya.) Some local families left the Kuban at the beginning of the war and left, for example, to evacuate. Others were forced to stay, during the occupation of the region and its capital by the Nazi troops in 1942-1943 they were in the Kuban, in Krasnodar. This article is based on both previously unpublished memoirs of city residents collected by the authors (memoirs by Razinskaya S.A., Zhigir E.G., Morozova E.V., Yesayan M.A.) and published as personal memoirs and diaries (Khudoley I.I., Chalenko K.N.). For the first time, on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the Victory of our country in World War II, an attempt was made to put into scientific circulation these materials, telling about the pre-occupation period of the Territory and the city of Krasnodar, as well as directly the time of the occupation of the southern region by fascist invaders. It is concluded that the stories of ordinary people – eyewitnesses to important historical events, the so-called narrative sources (oral and recorded memoirs, letters, diaries and school essays) provide historians with invaluable material to restore the picture of everyday life of the military historical era.There is no conflict of interests.

Cinema's Military Industrial Complex

2018 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
World War I ◽  
Mobile Technologies ◽  
Industrial Complex ◽  
Physical And Mental Health ◽  
World War ◽  
Film Exhibition ◽  
Record Keeping ◽  
Military Industrial Complex ◽  
The Military

Cinema’s Military Industrial Complex examines how the American military has used cinema and related visual, sonic, and mobile technologies to further its varied aims. The essays in this book address the way cinema was put to work for purposes of training, orientation, record keeping, internal and external communication, propaganda, research and development, tactical analysis, surveillance, physical and mental health, recreation, and morale. The contributors examine the technologies and types of films that were produced and used in collaboration among the military, film industry, and technology manufacturers. The essays also explore the goals of the American state, which deployed the military and its unique modes of filmmaking, film exhibition, and film viewing to various ends. Together, the essays reveal the military’s deep investment in cinema, which began around World War I, expanded during World War II, continued during the Cold War (including wars in Korea and Vietnam), and still continues in the ongoing War on Terror.

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