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The administrative capital was tentatively proposed as Moscow, the historical and political center of the Russian state. As the German armies were approaching the Soviet capital in the Operation Typhoon in the autumn of 1941, Hitler determined that Moscow, like Leningrad and Kiev, would be levelled and its 4 million inhabitants killed, to destroy it as a potential center of Bolshevist resistance.
The administrative planning carried out by Alfred Rosenberg from April to June 1941 in his capacity as Plenipotentiary for the Central Treatment of Questions of the Eastern European Space (basis of the future Reich Ministry for the Occupied Eastern Territories) for the territories that were to be conquered in the Soviet Union based the ...
Reichskommissariat Moskowien (RKM) (the remainder of the Soviet Union's European territories, minus Karelia and the Kola peninsula, which were promised to Finland.); never fully established. German military advance halted in 1941/42.
Moskowien (Moscow metropolitan area and the rest of nearest Russian European areas); Turkestan (the Central Asian Soviet republics, ethnically mainly Turkic ). This suggested an intention to destroy Russia as a political entity, as the Nazis organised the areas adjacent to Greater Germany 's eastern provinces in accordance with the geopolitical ...
However, Nazi geopoliticians recognized the role of France as an historical Great power of Europe since Middle ages, believing that the total collapse of France could have catastrophic consequences for the totality of Europe, and also that both countries joining forces would be an imparable force to seize the domination of the continent (like ...
The Reichskommissariat Ukraine (RKU; lit. ' Reich Commissariat of Ukraine ') was established by Nazi Germany in 1941 during World War II.It was the civilian occupation regime of much of German-occupied Ukraine (it also included adjacent areas of the Byelorussian SSR, Russian SFSR, and pre-war Poland).
Russia 1985–1999: TraumaZone (subtitled in promotional media as What It Felt Like to Live Through The Collapse of Communism and Democracy) is a seven-part BBC documentary television series created by Adam Curtis. It was released on BBC iPlayer on 13 October 2022.
The collapse of the Soviet Union, 1985–1991 (Routledge, 2016). Matlock, Jr. Jack F., Autopsy on an Empire: The American Ambassador's Account of the Collapse of the Soviet Union, Random House, 1995, ISBN 0-679-41376-6; Oberdorfer, Don. From the Cold War to a New Era: The United States and the Soviet Union, 1983–1991 (2nd ed. Johns Hopkins UP ...