How Goering Seized Power Over the German Economy
Hitler appointed Goering to command the German economy. But on what were his real powers based, his ability to give orders and have them carried out?...
The "floating" border between Europe and Asia. Climate criteria
Is it possible to find the invisible border between Europe and Asia using climate maps and isotherms?...
To Berlin!
80 years since the Vistula-Oder Offensive. The armies of Zhukov and Konev overcame 7 fortified enemy lines and 2 large water obstacles, liberated Warsaw and reached the approaches to Berlin...
Sebastian - Portuguese "king under the mountain"
The battle was already lost when a lone horseman in bloody armor cut into the Moorish ranks. Everything that followed was obscured by the dust raised by the horses' hooves: at the crossing of the Lukos River...
On the issue of the glaring poverty of the Russian peasant of the Non-Black Earth Region
Memories of the past, plus an answer to a question from one of the readers...
Operation Konrad: Germans try to throw the Russians into the Danube
80 years ago, German troops launched a counteroffensive to lift the blockade of Budapest. The 4th SS Panzer Corps was already 17 km from the Hungarian capital, but was stopped...
"Krasnoyarsk Uncertainty." The History of the Rebellion on the Banks of the Yenisei
From our school days we remember the Copper and Salt Riots, the Bolotnikov and Stenka Razin rebellions. Against the backdrop of these events that took place in the European part of our country, Siberia seems like a calm place....
Early Dynastic Tombs at Saqqara
It so happened that on the mountain range that runs along the eastern edge of the North Saqqara Escarpment as far as Abusir, early dynastic burials of many elite members of the First...
The "floating" border between Europe and Asia
Centuries-old attempts to find the non-existent and conditional border between Europe and Asia, the geographical criteria of this border...
British Heptarchy
After the Roman legions left the island, Britain began to be attacked by Germanic tribes from mainland Europe and the tribal leaders of the Britons turned to the Roman emperor for help...
British Lion vs. Snow Leopard or Epilogue of the Anglo-Afghan War
After the defeat of the British mission in Kabul as a result of a popular uprising and the murder of its head, P. Cavagnari, the Anglo-Afghan War flared up with renewed vigor, but quickly reached a strategic dead end,...
Germany's Ferrous Metallurgy: How Goering Cleverly Played Poor
Stories that Germany was in dire need of resources, raw materials, etc. may not always be true and may be the result of Nazi disinformation....
The Myth of War Experience and Its Role in Nation-Building after World War I
The formation of the myth of military experience and the role of the state in positioning the memory of the war...
The Sids of Ireland, the Elves and Fairies of Britain, the Orcs and Ugrians
Elves and fairies of the Celtic peoples: neither good nor evil, “they love different games – but it’s fun for them, not for you”...
"Turkish Napoleon" planned to drive the Russians out of the Caucasus
110 years ago, Russian troops destroyed the most powerful army of Turkey in the brutal Battle of Sarikamish. The Russians eliminated the threat of the enemy's breakthrough to the Caucasus and opened the way to Anatolia...
Minnesingers in helmets with birdcage and stylized axes
Perhaps the most famous of the minnesinger knights was Walter von der Vogelweide, whose coat of arms and, accordingly, helmet depicted a golden bird cage with a nightingale sitting in it...
Where did the electrification of railways of the second five-year plan go?
The electrification of railways, solemnly promised by the GOELRO plan and included in the second five-year plan, suddenly and mysteriously disappeared somewhere....
"Capitalist Fence"
Why in the Middle Ages, as well as in New Age England, the “fence”, that is, the enclosure of land plots, was of a capitalist nature, while in France at the same time there was no capitalism even...
The brutal battle for Pest
80 years ago, Malinovsky's troops took the eastern part of the Hungarian capital, Pest, in fierce battles. The remnants of the German-Hungarian garrison retreated beyond the Danube, to the western part of the city, Buda...
Expedition to the Ancestors. A Raft as a Gift
The raft, as we all know, was the oldest floating device invented by man. Moreover, the history of the raft is as interesting as, say, the history of the wheel, the potter's wheel or the water mill....
Galindas - Balts on the Oka
The Galindians lived right on the territory of Moscow and neighboring regions and a little further south. However, not only there: having set out on a journey together with the Goths, the Galindians reached Spain...
Knights of Minnesang: Famous and Not So Famous
Minnesingers were knights whose art was not only in swordsmanship, but also in the creation of poems and songs. These warrior poets, often from humble backgrounds, traveled...
The country we lost
Day of the Country That No Longer Exists. On December 30, 1922, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) was created. The Soviet superpower that defeated Nazism and brought humanity into space...
Light elves of the Scandinavians and Celtic fairies of Broceliande
The evolution of ideas about elves and fairies, the bright elves of the Scandinavians, the famous fairies of the Broceliande forest. Modern elves...