Ruslan Budnik

Ruslan Budnik is one of the authors writing for WAR HISTORY ONLINE

Articles by Ruslan Budnik:

Death is Not Defeat: Mass Suicides in Nazi Germany in 1945

On April 30, 1945, while in his Führerbunker in Berlin, Adolf Hitler shot himself. Around the same time, about a thousand residents of the German…

Six Cases in Which Servicemen Did Not Surrender When a War Ended

The history of warfare is full of examples of soldiers who refused to capitulate and continued to offer armed resistance after their side surrendered. Most…

Hitler’s House in The Center of the Scandal in Austria

On April 20, 1889 in the town of Braunau am Inn in Austria-Hungary, a woman gave birth to a boy who would grow up to…

Ghost Blimp Mystery of WW2 – Crashed in San Francisco & Crew Was Never Found

To date, many people who took part in hostilities are on the missing in action list. They can be lost in the annals of history.…

‘Who Put Bella in the Witch Elm’ – Mysterious Wartime Disappearance, Was She a German Spy?

In the 1970s, graffiti appeared on an old obelisk near Stourbridge in England with the inscription: “WHO PUT BELLA IN THE WITCH ELM?” This inscription…

Russia Ran Out of Vodka Celebrating The End of WW2, They Showed The World How To Party

On May 9, 1945, at 1:10 AM, the citizens of the Soviet Union heard on the radio that Nazi Germany had signed the act of…

The Nazis Weren’t The First, Sweden First Started Sterilising People Who Were Not “Aryan”

In the first half of the 20th century, as part of the study of eugenics in Sweden, a program was launched for compulsory sterilization. According…

The Battle of Wizna – Around 800 Polish Soldiers Held Off 42,000 German Soldiers for Three Days

During the German invasion of Poland at the beginning of World War II, 720 Polish soldiers manned the fortified line of defense near the village…

5 unique Soviet Heroes of WW2

In the Soviet history of the Great Patriotic War (Eastern Front of the Second World War), there were outstanding people whose heroism caused great fear…

PPSh-41 – The Most Mass-Produced Submachine Gun of WWII

The Soviet PPSh-41 submachine gun was one of the most common weapons of the Second World War. The famous modification of the PPSh with a…

The Highest Soviet Hotel That Survived the Nazis, But Did Not Survive the Fire

For sixty years, the highest mountain hotel of the USSR and Russia was located on the southeast slope of Mount Elbrus at an altitude of…

Walther Wenck – Hitler’s Last Hope?

On the night of April 29-30, 1945, Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel received several messages from Adolf Hitler. One of them posed the question: “Where are…