About the most anti-human state education in the history of mankind
The current post-Soviet regimes like to speculate, and inside Russia there are such authors, about the Russian empire, as about the “prison of nations”, and about the USSR, as about a giant Gulag. In this case, somehow not ...
For nearly a hundred years, the Russo-Japanese War is considered to be a national disgrace
27 May 1905 of the Russian 2-I squadron of the Pacific Fleet under the command of Vice Admiral Rozhestvensky suffered a crushing defeat in the Tsushima Strait from the Imperial Fleet of Japan ....
What the nazis believed
On the buckles of the soldiers of the Wehrmacht was written "God with us" ("Gott mit uns"), which is interesting, this was the motto of the Russian Empire. But in the field of ideology in the Third Reich there were ideas that were ...
"Spanish trap" for the USSR
When a military rebellion began in Spain in July 1936, J.Stalin was wary of him. Initially, Moscow, together with France and England, took a position of non-intervention. But the rebels rush, ...
Expensive gifts of the USSR and Russia
In 2001, the former President of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Putin, without worrying about the public motivation and opinion of the people, decided to liquidate our last significant military bases in Cam Ranh (Vietnam) and ...
The beginning of the preparation of the Second World War
Usually speaking about the preparation for the Second World War, they focus on the events in Europe, but this is not quite true. It all started with the "policy of the Far Eastern Munich" - in September, Japanese 1931 ...
On the organization of the famine in the USSR in 1932-1933 years
The end of 1932 - the beginning of 1933 was one of the most difficult times for the USSR. The process of industrialization of the country went quickly with a booming pace. But for the industrial giants did not have time to create at the same time ...
How did the Barbarossa plan develop
In principle, that the campaign to the East will be, it was clear from the very beginning, Hitler was “programmed” to him. The question was different - when? 22 July 1940, F. Halder received a task from the commander ...
Bound by one goal
Many brothers know the brothers Igor and Oleg Rodionov in the Airborne Forces. Some of them served urgent with them, having been on mission three times in Baku, which was full of nationalism. Others - their schoolmates in Ryazan ...
Preparing the USSR for war: a feat worthy of titans
The preparation of the USSR for the world war was comprehensive: they developed the national economy, increased the capabilities of the Armed Forces, created new types of weapons, carried out mass educational ...
Horned fighters of the Northern Front
Who just did not "call" for a war of animals! .. Horses, elephants, camels and even bulls at one time became fighting units of armies. About such divisions of history is well known ....
Mobilization of German forces to attack the USSR
The implementation of the plan of “lightning war”, the rapid defeat of France, Belgium, Holland, and the defeat of England were achieved at a very low price. The Wehrmacht did not suffer significant losses in people, technology, not ...
Disinformation of the Kremlin before 22 June 1941 of the year
One of the most popular themes in the history of Russia and World War II is the question, what happened on June 22? There are many answers, one of them - the Kremlin was the victim of a large-scale disinformation campaign, ...
“Unattachable defense lines of the 20th century” Molotov Line (part 4)
The Molotov Line is a system of fortifications built by the USSR in 1940-1941 along the new western border, after the Soviet Union annexed the Baltic states, the western regions of Belarus and Ukraine, ...
Victory parade
Victory is a monument to those who did not return from the battlefield, defending Moscow, Leningrad, Kiev, Sevastopol, Odessa and Stalingrad, defending every inch of their native land. Zip year, and ...
Moscow’s attempts to misinform Berlin
The military-political leadership of the Soviet Union understood that war was approaching, and in the course of carrying out comprehensive preparations for it, carried out misinformation measures, ...
Unrealized excellence
Once again about the tanks and tank forces of the Red Army and the Wehrmacht. In the "statistical study" under the intriguing title "Grief of secrecy removed" under the general editorship of Colonel-General GFKrivosheev, the ...
"Submarine Carriers"
The concept of an aircraft launched from a submarine is as old as naval aviation itself. On January 6, 1915, the finished seaplane "Fridrichshafen" was launched from the deck of the German submarine U-12 ....
Stalin and the beginning of the Great Patriotic War
Many agree that Stalin is to blame for the hardest start of the war and the huge losses in personnel, the material part of our army. It’s hard to disagree - after all, he was the ruler ...
“Unattainable defense lines of the 20th century” Stalin Line (part 3)
The Stalin Line, which was never officially called so in the USSR, was one of the largest defensive projects ever implemented in the history of mankind. She is...
Mysteries of the Time of Troubles
Many authors, especially of a liberal sense, like to talk about the “wine” of Ivan the Terrible in the Time of Troubles at the beginning of the 17 century. But why did it not begin immediately after his death or during his time !? Once all its prerequisites ...
Aces in the Red Army
In the Red Army, the command of the Air Force was categorized as aces-pilots rather contradictory: on the one hand, they were supported, because they were the pride of the Air Force, the whole country, "Stalin ...
The Myth of Emperor Nicholas II
The campaign to exalt Nicholas II began under M. Gorbachev, and they did it with such exaggerations and exaggerations, which is simply amazing. Nicholas was called a highly educated person ...
Hitler prevented attack in 1939, the Soviet Union, Poland?
According to the German researcher Rolf-Dieter Müller (he published the work "The Enemy in the East. Hitler's Secret Plans for War with the USSR in 1939"), Berlin planned to strike ...