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Originally Posted by CyberSEO
Yep, their soldiers are animals and they have commuted even more war crimes than the US soldiers in Vietnam, but it still was not a reason to drop nukes to civilians in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The real men don't fight against women and children. Only cowards do that (Dresden, Tokyo, Hiroshima, Nagasaki or My Lai - doesn't matter)  |
on the night of 21–22 July 1941, Soviet Naval Aviation launched a series of seven raids against Germany, primarily Berlin, between the night of 7–8 August and 3–4 September. These attacks were undertaken by between four and fifteen aircraft—beginning on 11 August the new Tupolev TB-7—from the island of Saaremaa, base of the 1st Torpedo Air Regiment. (At least one raid of the 81st Air Division took off from Pushkin.)
Besides thirty tonnes of bombs, they also dropped leaflets with Joseph Stalin's defiant speech of 3 July. The Soviets sent a total of 549 long-range bombers over German territory in all of 1941.
In March 1942 the strategic bombing arm of the Soviet Union was reorganized as the Long Range Air Force (ADD). It raided Berlin from 26–29 August and again on the night of 9–10 September with 212 planes.
It raided Helsinki for the first time on 24 August, Budapest on 4–5 and 9–10 September and Bucharest on 13–14 September.
The German-occupied Polish cities of Kraków and Warsaw were not exempt, but the bombers concentrated primarily on military targets.
There were 1,114 sorties over Germany in 1942. In March 1943 there was a strategic shift: in preparation for the Kursk Offensive, the bombers were directed against the German railroads behind the front.
In April the Long Range Air Force expanded to eight air corps and eleven independent divisions containing 700 planes.
After the Kursk preparations, the Soviets turned their attention to administrative and industrial targets in East Prussia in April. With 920 aircraft taking part, they dropped 700 tonnes of bombs there.
The largest Soviet bomb of the war, an 11,000-pound weapon, was dropped on Königsberg during one of these raids.