Historians and publicists are still arguing about Stalin's behavior on the verge of war. Why did he not heed the warnings of the Western powers and Soviet intelligence? Why did he hold on to the illusion of union until the very end ...

The shovel was invented by man even before the birth of all monotheistic religions. However, it got into the equipment of every soldier relatively recently ...

Let us analyze the versions of politicians and specialists about the general scale of the extermination of the civilian population of our country by the Nazis. And let us remind the reader how cynical, methodical and planned and scheduled destruction of peaceful ...

In the middle of the XNUMXrd century BC. e. in the area of ​​Feodosia, the fire of war broke out. Detachments of nomads over and over again made devastating raids on the rural regions of the Bosporus and Chersonesos kingdoms. Hastily ...

Over the past three centuries, England has been Russia's most formidable enemy. Only since the Second World War has Britain divided this place with the United States. The continuous conflict with England was caused by the desire ...

The “mine” laid by Lenin under the Soviet Union went off in 1991 ...

Why was the Duke of Enghien killed? What were the consequences of the murder? ...

Europe of those years longed for superiority and reprisals over the barbarians in the East. It was the joint war (like the invasion of the territory of the USSR / Russia) that became that unifying action for Europe, which and ...

In attempts to rewrite and destroy the true history of Russia on the pages of books, on the air of TV and in the information field of the Internet, a myth was formed that Stalin himself planned to attack the Third Reich ...

The monetary reform of 1961 turned out to be like a surgical operation without anesthesia for the USSR economy ...

The Second Reich was created 150 years ago. On January 18, 1871, the monarchs of all German states in a solemn atmosphere at Versailles proclaimed the Prussian King Wilhelm the German emperor ...

In the spring of 1941, the command of the Kriegsmarine already appreciated the fact that the Cape Town-Freetown convoy route would be an excellent target for submarine attacks ...

Roman Ungern was an unusual person even by the standards of the Russian Civil War. Yes, he was cruel - but in those days this did not surprise anyone. Moreover, the distinctive ...

11552nd Hero of the Soviet Union, liquidator of the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, former Deputy Commander-in-Chief of the Air Force for combat training, deputy of the State Duma of two convocations ... It's all about one thing, recently ...

Many things that today seem to us to be an integral part of military affairs, in fact, do not have such a long history. In particular, this applies to the provision of medical care ...

The situation on the eve of the German invasion of the USSR in 1941, when a united Europe was seriously imbued with the ideology of the destruction of all subhuman Slavs ...

Russia came to Georgia because the Georgian tsars begged it to do so. Only with the help of the Russians could the Georgian people save themselves ...

In the summer of 2008, during excavations at the Zemlyanoy settlement of Staraya Ladoga, the remains of a molding box were found. How did this find influence the views of historians? ...

The article briefly outlines the main milestones in the development of the Rurik family sign ...

The agony of socialist Albania, the uprising of 1997, the Albanian diasporas abroad ...