Fire in the Steppe: Puppet Brigade visible • 1967: Sword of Israel

• 1967: Sword of Israel

Having driven the Hitlerite invaders out of Soviet Ukraine

like the German 105mm howitzer

and so was the 1941-45 Great Patriotic War

Fire in the Steppe: Puppet Brigade visible • 1967: Sword of IsraelIn March 1939, the small, newly created nation of Slovakia declared its independence from Czechoslovakia and immediately became a satellite of Nazi Germany. Slovak troops invaded Ukraine in 1941 and fought alongside the Germans for five years as the most minor of allies. The puppet government began mobilizing reservists just four days before the German invasion, and sent its troops over the border six days later. Those soldiers proved far less