How Russia was turned into a semi-colony of raw materials - "Northern Nigeria"
The West skillfully reproduced in Russia the semi-colonial system that was established in the former colonies of the Western powers. When real resources are taken out, they are exchanged for "beads" (green paper), and ...
World War I: it all started quite differently
In the narratives of this story, a path has been traveled from facts and fiction to anecdotes and all sorts of cults...
How the Crimean Khan Islam Giray saved the Polish army from total annihilation
On the morning of August 6 (16), 1649, the Cossacks and Tatars again attacked the Polish camp. The Cossacks broke into the shaft, broke into the camp itself. But the Crimean Khan saved the Polish king...
"Leather Middle Ages"
In the Middle Ages, tanned animal skin was even more important than fur. Because fur was used only in clothing, while without skin, the then world simply could not exist ....
How the Turks took Constantinople
The pogrom of Constantinople on May 29, 1453 was in some respects weaker than when the city was taken by the crusaders in 1204. It was already an Ottoman city, and Mehmed did not allow it to be burned and destroyed...
Alexey Basmanov. Life before the oprichnina
Alexey Basmanov. Governor of Ivan IV, hero of Kazan, Sudbishche and Narva...
Middle Ages at the kitchen table. Citizens and peasants
The urban population - merchants, artisans, soldiers, ate bread from wheat flour - those who are richer, and those who are poorer, ate bread from wheat flour with the addition of rye, oatmeal, barley, ...
Crusaders storm Constantinople in the XNUMXth century.
After the grandiose cathedral in the city of Clermont, the "pilgrims" began to form detachments from both the military and the common people for a trip to the Holy Land. The proposed path was to lead the pilgrims to...
Why did the US cover up Nazi criminals?
The Americans and the Vatican saved thousands of German Nazis by taking them to the US and Latin America. The Americans were preparing to use the Nazis in the fight against the USSR, they also needed them ...
From the wild steppe to the industrial center: the development of the lands of Donbass in the XNUMXth – early XNUMXth
Even at the beginning of the XNUMXth century, most of the current Donbass was a wild steppe. However, in just a few decades, hundreds of settlements arose, many of which subsequently ...
Demonstration execution of the Rosenbergs
70 years ago, the Rosenbergs were executed in the United States on charges of spying for the USSR. To this day, the execution of American communists is one of the darkest and most unrighteous events of the XNUMXth century...
Counter-Reformation in Bavaria. Why this country remained committed to Catholicism
In the XNUMXth century, the Reformation took place, during which a number of lands and princes of Germany (and not only Germany) broke with Catholicism. However, Bavaria, as it was Catholic, remained. And what's the matter...
Andronicus Komnenos. "Monte Cristo" and Don Juan of Constantinople
The life of Andronicus Komnenos is like an adventurous novel in which he appears as Don Giovanni, Monte Cristo and even Vasily Shuisky...
Medieval in the kitchen and at the dining table
European cuisine was formed on the foundation of the Roman one, that is, the Europeans borrowed from the Romans not only their "spoiled Latin" and faith, but also cuisine based on the Roman triad: ...
The hero of Iwo Jima with an unusual weapon in his hands
The Battle of Iwo Jima became the swan song of the US Marine Corps in World War II. The fierce and bloody battle gave rise to many examples of the heroism of the attackers, who ...
“The first thing you experience is delight.” 60 years of spaceflight by Valentina Tereshkova
The name of Valentina Tereshkova thundered all over the world on June 16, 1963, when she made her legendary flight on the Vostok-6 spacecraft, becoming the first female cosmonaut in history...
How Gorbachev and Yeltsin drove Russia into debt bondage
The largest production of the West was the gold reserves of the USSR-Russia. The West, for the second time after the robbery of the gold reserves of the Russian Empire, was able to steal its gold from Russia ...
Development work and the first samples of Rudolf Diesel engines
In July 1893, the first experimental four-stroke engine of the simplest design with a vertical cylinder and no cooling jacket was fully assembled. The camshaft was located at the bottom...
Finnish defensive lines, lines of long-term fortifications. Line U (U-asema)
Finnish fortification of the period of the Great Patriotic War or, according to the historiography adopted in Finland, the continuation war....
Battle of the Arc (1303) - Pyrrhic victory for the Flemings
The Battle of the Arc took place on April 4, 1303, during the Franco-Flemish War of 1297–1305, when the inhabitants of the county of Flanders, who rebelled against the dominion of King Philip IV, after a victorious ...
Francoist Spain: from international isolation and autarky to a dynamically developing and economically successful European power
How did Francoist Spain emerge from international isolation? What was the Spanish elite during the reign of the caudillos? What caused the economic rise of Francoist Spain?...
Victories and defeats of General Lewenhaupt
The first victory won by Lewenhaupt in the Great Northern War was the battle of Salaty in March 1703. The Russian-Lithuanian detachment under the command of the headman of the Samogitian Grigory Oginsky totaled about ...
And what do we know about Rudolf Teodorovich Diesel
The life story of the famous inventor Rudolf Diesel...
Industrious Middle Ages
The Middle Ages is the world of stone castles, of which more than 15 were built in Europe. But after all, someone built them, and someone fed those who built them?...