The brilliant armor strategist heinz guderian once asked hitler " was it really necessary to attack kursk and indeed in the east that year at all . Do you think anyone even knows where kursk is ? "
The people who actually smuggled the weapon into japan informed the white dragon the nuclear weapon , stolen from the russian submarine kursk , had been placed at former prime minister yasuhiro nakasone 's residence in hinode-cho near tokyo before being taken to the north korean resident 's association in tokyo .
But old habits die hard : under vladimir putin , the prime minister and former president , russia 's authorities have not been forthcoming about events such as the sinking of the submarine kursk in 2000 and other incidents .
His father participated in the battle of kursk and then was wounded by a shot .
他的父亲参与了库尔斯克战役后来又被击伤的一枪。
But , even if he were not struggling to repair his image after the kursk affair , russia is too chaotic for him to have much influence abroad-or the power to make the concessions needed , for example , to clinch the peace treaty with japan promised by the end of the year .