Kamchatka Odyssey ataman Atlasov
How the Cossacks of Kamchatka fought The biography of the Cossack chieftain Vladimir Atlasov, who won the Kamchatka Peninsula in heavy battles with Itelmens and Koryaks, is able to surpass the most ...
Most Serbian Patriarch
He was born in 1914 on the Feast of the Beheading of John the Baptist, not far from Donji Miholjac in Slavonia, in the east of modern Croatia (and then Austria-Hungary) in a peasant family ....
Comrade Mauser - man and rifle
The history of the creation and service of the most massive small arms of the Great War The 98 rifle Mauser occupies a special place in the military-technical history of not only the Great War, but of the entire 20th century, becoming ...
What removed the "Romanian Stalin"
The General Secretary of the Romanian Communist Party (RCP) and the President of the Socialist Republic of Romania (SRR) was shot together with his wife Elena, who held important posts. Creators of the "color revolution" ...
Memory in the desert
By the centenary of the Turkish Armenian Genocide, the January terrorist attacks in Paris diverted media attention from the massacres in Syria and Iraq, where fueled by money from Saudi Arabia and Qatar ...
Says the head of counterintelligence
The phrase "head of counterintelligence" sounds strict and even formidable. However, Mikhail Ovseenko, currently living in St. Petersburg, who served in Kabul as the head of the Special Division of the 40 Army - or ...
Survive and stay human
Front and trench life of the Great War In old photos, newsreels and even in many memories, the war is fanned by some romance, and even in the field it looks accordingly dangerous ...
Monstrous struggle of perseverance and resilience
Verdun - the mass grave of the best sons of France and Germany, the Battle of Verdun occupies a special place in the history of the Great War, and for the French the name of this small town is generally almost sacred ....
On land, in the air and at sea
What Egypt won by unleashing the Doomsday War The October 1973 war (in Israel it is called the Doomsday War, after the religious holiday on which it began) became the last ...
Blitzkrieg bet
Numerous sources on the history of the Third Reich testify that the German economy, even by September 1939, was not ready for a long war, although absolutely all material and human ...
Terrible internal enemy
As participants in the Great War eradicated treason and betrayal We began to search for treason and hidden internal enemies in all countries that entered the Great War from the very first days. Against the backdrop of universal ...
"Rubber War" in the Carpathians
Kaledin's detachment was supposed to try to bypass the main enemy grouping. The Austrians stopped Kaledin's detachment near the town of Lutovysko and, settling down on the dominant heights, shot the Russians ...
Caliphate. How did it start
First, let's try to figure out who the caliph is. Initially, the caliph is the head of the Muslim community, replacing the messenger of Allah, that is, the prophet Muhammad. Terminological meaning ...
Keepers of secrets
From time immemorial, ciphers have been used to keep secrets. One of the most ancient cipher systems, information about which history has brought to us, is wandering. It was used by the ancient Greeks in the fifth ...
Two years before Devyatyeva’s flight
On the night of August 12, 1943, from a German airfield, which was then near the city of Ostrov, a connected Fi-156 “Storch” took off. As soon as he gained altitude, like the sky, which had not yet managed ...
The fate of the CER as a result of the world wars
In fact, after World War I, in 1918, Japan sent its troops into the area of the CER and in 1920 tried to take possession of it. At the Washington Conference held in 1921-1922, ...
Operation Doctor Zhivago
The US Central Intelligence Agency has partially declassified documents on methods of conducting ideological sabotage against the USSR in the field of literature. Similar plans are hatched today and against ...
The bell does not ring them
... In the morning a cold October rain was pouring from low canvas-gray clouds. But it was still hectic and fun. And so unusual for their everyday measured life. A real adventure ...
Battle of the Ardennes
70 years ago, in December 1944, Nazi Germany made the last radical attempt to turn the tide of the war. Offensive in the Ardennes. I must say, the Western Front turned out pretty ...
Death of the 20 Russian Corps
For five days, four Russian divisions — the 27, 28, 29, and 53 infantry divisions — fought an unequal battle with the German troops. Hungry, not sleeping a few nights in a row, Russian soldiers showed ...
Tuva Red Army men. From the creation of the Arat army to the fronts of the Great Patriotic
The history of Central Asia includes a number of little-known pages, which nevertheless are of particular interest, given the close relationship of the region with the Russian state and strategic ...
America vs England. Part of 15. Woe to the vanquished
Speaking about the reasons for the catastrophic defeat of the bourgeois France by the Nazi Germany in the spring of 1940, external and internal causes are usually mentioned. First of all, the Wehrmacht is called with its blitzkrieg –...
The story of one tin. Part one
By the end of the 1942, qualitative changes took place in the technical equipment of the military aviation of all the warring countries. The achievements of the USSR in this area were especially impressive. The excellence of the war industry ...
Entente and Central Powers military plans for 1915 year
Petrograd, which was still captured by allied illusions, orienting itself to the West, as in 1914, planned its campaign for 1915 for the year proceeding from the wishes of the allies. This predetermined ...