When the Civil War of the North and South in the USA began in the spring of 1861, the states that were part of a single union state were divided as follows: 11 states left the Union, but 25 retained ...

Changes in cinematography and the image of Western countries in propaganda...

On January 6, 1813, the Russian sovereign Alexander I signed a manifesto on the "expulsion of the adversary" from Russia. Back in December 1812, the last remnants of Napoleon's "Great Army" fled Russia....

There are many mysteries in the biography of great-grandfather Pushkin, starting from the place of his birth and the circumstances of his appearance in Russia...

What changes in propaganda took place in 1946-1964, and how did de-Stalinization affect it ...

On January 4, 1943, the American magazine Time named Joseph Stalin the Man of 1942. The Red Emperor managed to create a unique Soviet civilization that achieved unprecedented unity...

How did the life of Stalin's daughter turn out and how did she end up in the USA?...

For a long time, the construction of the most complex or most beautiful architectural structures was attributed to the intervention of the devil, who turned out to be skillful, but not clever ...

It is not for nothing that Dover Castle is called the "Gateway to England", although, on the other hand, it is also the key to it, and in the truest sense of the word. Everyone who crossed the Pas de Calais, or simply the Channel - that is ...

80 years ago, the defensive stage of the battle for the Caucasus ended. The plans of the leadership of the Third Reich to conquer the Caucasus were buried. The German army went on the defensive...

What arguments did Ehrenburg use in his articles, what role did the songs play, and what did the leaflets addressed to the Germans talk about...

"When war is declared, the first victim is the truth." Information confrontation, the role of the Sovinformburo and Levitan in the war ...

100th anniversary of the formation of the USSR. Soviet civilization of labor, justice and knowledge. Union, which gave mankind a bright alternative...

Let's try to figure out what kind of education and what kind of military experience turned out to be more needed to win the Russian Civil War...

90 years ago, the honorary title "Voroshilovsky shooter" of the 1st and 2nd degrees was established in the USSR. The title existed in the Soviet Union from 1932 to 1941. Any citizen could get it by passing an exam on ...

"The Legacy of Proscriptions". "Terrible", "cruelest", "terrible" and "greatest" Sertorian war...

They called this process beautifully - "great discoveries", the spread of "civilization". Because history was written by Westerners themselves. It was somehow ugly to call yourself predators, robbers, pirates and ...

What changes took place in the Soviet press during the Great Patriotic War?...

The history of the creative path of a group of artists who wrote under one pseudonym...

Quintus Sertorius. Origin, youth, military career...

Babylon is the greatest city of the ancient world. The city is in mourning, and there is a reason for that: the god-like Alexander, the Hellenic king, conqueror and ruler of the world, is dying. At the bedside of a dying man stand his...

The Germans quickly realized that the Central Rada was an empty shell. Since the Rada cannot manage and organize the flow of grain to Germany, then the "Ukrainian sign" can be changed...

Several versions of the origin of the people of Israel, based on the Bible, the Jewish Encyclopedia, the works of I. Flavius, G. Graetz and B. Friedman ... The history of the Israeli, Jewish and Khazar kingdoms and confusion ...

Petrarch noted that it is enough to see Rome to lose faith. And Lorenzo Medici called Rome "a latrine that united all the vices" ...