Redistribution of history: customers and performers
Statement by the National Association of Associations of Reserve Officers of the Armed Forces "MEGAPIR" One of the characteristic negative features of the spiritual sphere of the modern world are attempts to falsify history and ...
Lesson Five: Innovations and Traditions
The constructive simplicity of the T-34 tank made it possible to quickly organize its production at many plants in the country. The evacuation of the tank industry to the east was not only a severe test, it ...
The myth that Stalin is guilty of the death of the outstanding Soviet commander M. V. Frunze
130 years ago, 21 January (2 February) 1885, was born the Soviet statesman and military leader Mikhail V. Frunze. Soviet statesman and commander gained fame ...
Women tankers of World War II. Valentina Gribaleva
Valentina Alexandrovna Gribaleva - Soviet tanker, took part in the battles of the Great Patriotic War, senior sergeant. During the war, she was the driver of a light tank T-60, and then ...
T-72 were the best tanks of the Iran-Iraq war
During the bloody and protracted Iran-Iraq war (1980-1988), T-72 tanks were considered the best main tank. The fighters of the Iranian army called T-72 the most valuable trophy that could be beaten off ...
Romanian fleet: return to normal
In the mid-20s of the XX century, Romania decided to implement a grandiose project: to build 20 submarines and several types of warships in order to completely re-equip its naval ...
The extermination industry and the “Balticization of history”
By January 1945 and the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp (in the domestic historiography better known as Auschwitz) as the Soviet political and military leadership, ...
First war songs
Not only art historians, but also listeners note that during the years of World War II the genre of the Soviet song passed all tests, becoming truly popular. Great power in these songs: it only costs ...
44 minutes after death
On 1 of September 1983, a South Korean Boeing-747 with 269 passengers on board was shot down in the sky over the then Soviet Far East with an USSR fighter-interceptor. This flight - KAL 007 - followed from ...
Golden Echelons
95 years ago a unique operation was carried out - Siberian partisans seized the gold reserves of Russia from the enemy. Well, our country was very rich. In economics, trade, politics, she spoke ...
Empire of hypocrisy
There were many contenders for world domination in history. Each of them, in addition to common claims for hegemony and a special purpose for them, was also distinguished by some special features. If you think about it ...
Noble Corsair "Emden"
The history of the most famous German raider of the Great War The light cruiser Emden of the German imperial fleet, without exaggeration, can be considered one of the most famous warships ...
Psevdoparovoz
The first powerful tractors with internal combustion engines were outwardly very similar to their steam ancestors. For example, this "Daimler-Foster" model 1911 is seemingly difficult to distinguish from ...
Memory return
Holovaty Ferapont Petrovich. Born 24 May (5 June) 1890 of the year in the village Serbinovka, now Grebenkovsky district of the Poltava region of Ukraine, in a peasant family. In 1910, he was drafted into the army ....
Living legends
For a long time of military service I had to communicate with a large number of people of very different social backgrounds, age, character, life principles and beliefs. To a certain extent, these ...
Life is legend
One day in a family of illegal intelligence officers Three years ago, on January 10 of 2012, Gevork Andreyevich Vartanyan, Hero of the Soviet Union, a legendary man of domestic foreign intelligence, passed away ...
"We have no prisoners of war, but there are traitors"
Allegations that all soldiers, officers and generals who returned from fascist captivity were repressed at the personal order of I.V. Stalin did not correspond to reality. It is in a certain ...
Why all the Nazi concentration camps for the destruction of people settled in Poland
[b] As you know, the UN chose this date because it was on 27 of January 1945 of the year that Soviet troops liberated the Nazi death camp Auschwitz. Now just turned 70 years from that day ....
"Polesskaya Sich" Taras Bulba
Already at the first attempts to form the Ukrainian state in 1918, the Central Council in Kiev, relying on the help of German troops, declared the southern regions of Belarus - Gomel, Rechitsa, ... to be Ukrainian as well.
We will not let the memory out of our hands
By imposing a capitulatory history on Russia, they are trying to deprive the country not only of the past, but also of the future, General MacArthur at the ceremony of signing the act of surrender of Japan 2 September 1945 year on board ...
Thirty Years War and a Rebellious World
After the Thirty Years 'War, governments could not decide what to do with the turned out unnecessary mercenaries. The Thirty Years' War (1618-1648) in Europe could continue due to non-payment of salaries ...
How Stalin dealt with the dollar
The dollar plays a crucial role in the economic system of the Russian Federation. Is it possible to get rid of him and how? Joseph Stalin, an expert on the nationalization and de-dollarisation of Russia, answers ....
On the way to defeat: the fall of Port Arthur, the Ynkou raid and the battle of Sandep
110 years ago, 25 — 29, January 1905, the battle of Sandep occurred. It was a kind of test of strength before the decisive battle of Mukden. The 2-I army under the command of O. K went on the offensive ....
Mau Mau movement. "Kenyan safari" British colonialists
One of the most powerful anti-colonial movements on the African continent in the postwar period was known as the Mau Mau Uprising. It brought together representatives of the largest nations ...