On 5 December 1991, Ukrainian voters decided to secede from the Soviet Union and Leonid Kravchuk became Ukraine’s first president. On 5 December 1941, the Russians launched their counteroffensive against the Germans in the Battle of Moscow. The plan had been hatched by Generals Georgy Zhukov and Aleksandr Vasilevsky. The European winter was the coldest… Continue reading #OTD 5 December – The mysterious Russian soul