“If less than half of the Russians remain in the division, it must be disbanded.” These words are attributed to the prominent Soviet commander of Armenian origin Ivan Khristoforovich Bagramyan...
The hero of our next material will be the English king, who belonged to the York Plantageneg line, Edward, Earl of March, better known as King Edward IV....
It is generally accepted that it was the incident with the pig that almost led to war between the United States and Great Britain over the island of San Juan. Why did such a ridiculous reason bring countries to the brink of war...
Irish navigator Tim (Timothy) Severin explored myths about sea voyages and tested in practice whether these “mythical” events were possible in reality...
210 years ago, allied Russian-Bavarian troops defeated Oudinot's French corps near the town of Bar-sur-Aube. The main army stopped retreating and resumed its offensive...
“Don’t spare the soldiers! Women are still giving birth!” This expression was attributed to Marshal of the Soviet Union Georgy Zhukov in the 1990s. But Zhukov didn’t say anything like that...
Since 1991, the owners of Kyiv should not have carried out decommunization, but, on the contrary, erected monuments to the creators of today's Ukraine - Lenin, Stalin and Khrushchev...
On February 23, 1938, SB piloted by Soviet pilots launched a powerful airstrike on a Japanese military base located in Taiwan, and today’s conversation is about the prelude to the appearance of Soviet pilots in...
The return of Infanta Isabella to court, marriage against the will of the king, accession to the throne, war with Portugal, family life and the fate of children...
What role did Umberto Nobile and Felice Troiani play in the development of Soviet airship construction? Why did Nobile agree to head Dirigiblestroy and how did he feel about the USSR? Like the conflict between Nobile and...
Having defeated in 256 BC. e. the Punic fleet in the battle of Cape Eknom, Rome lands an army in North Africa under the command of the consuls Marcus Atilius Regulus and Lucius Manlius Vulso, intending...
Continuation of the series “Siege of Constantinople”. We will talk about sieges and threats of sieges to which the city of Constantine was subjected in the second half of the 12th century...
80 years ago, the Proskurovo-Chernivtsi operation of Soviet troops began. The 1st Ukrainian Front under the command of Zhukov liberated a significant part of Right Bank Ukraine from the Nazis and reached...