Back in April 1945, Goering proposed to Montgomery (British Field Marshal) "to deploy the entire Western Front and expel the Russians from the territory of the Reich." There were other suggestions - in ...

Taking Berlin and hoisting the red flag over the Reichstag was the final solemn chord in the victory over Nazi Germany. Fighting in Berlin were literally for every house. Germans...

A scout, like a sapper, cannot be mistaken. Moreover, the sapper in the event of an error dies himself, and the mistakes of a scout are costly for many people. Inaccurate intelligence can lead to great ...

Victory in the Great Patriotic War was achieved only thanks to the heroism of the Soviet people (not only the Russian, as it is often presented in the modern press), many nations ...

On the eve of the venerable Victory Day, the memory involuntarily returns to thoughts of the great exploits of our fellow citizens. There are places on the map of our Motherland where not a single hero, but a whole ...

In 1942, the troops of the Hitler armies quickly moved in a southwesterly direction, but could not surround the Soviet troops west of the Don. And now the main efforts of the enemy were aimed at capturing ...

I came across this photo almost by accident. A small cardboard suitcase fell on my head when I shoved in the pantry. Under a pile of scattered papers stood out a black and white shot with jagged edges ....

Victory in the Great Patriotic War is one of the most significant events in the history of the USSR and modern Russia. With the approach of the next, already 66 anniversary since the surrender of fascist Germany ...

Hundreds of thousands of heroes have made an invaluable contribution to the liberation of our Motherland and the whole world from the fascist yoke. The names of some have remained unknown. But there were and are those whose names remained for ...

Soviet-Russian historians are still unable (or unwilling) to clearly explain how a post-USSR would have existed if the Germans had won the Second World War. They refer only to the notorious ...

We are starting a series of publications about our grandfathers and great-grandfathers, stories about unknown heroes of the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945. Who has a story to tell: memories of relatives, acquaintances' stories ...

In the conventional wisdom, the 1 of September 1939 of the year began the Second World War - the Third Reich attacked Poland, although in China they count from the 1937 of the year. In 4 hours 45 minutes at the mouth of the Vistula River is old ...

This concept, “the world behind the scenes,” was introduced by the great Russian thinker I. A. Ilyin, various authors, researchers, express different opinions about the appearance of “the world behind the scenes”. Some believe ...

2 March 1917, the emperor of the Russian Empire, Nicholas II, signed the Act of Renunciation, he handed the burden of imperial power to his brother, Grand Duke Mikhail Alexandrovich. Nikolai thought it was ...

The last wife of the British agent of the Soviet KGB, Kim Philby, says that he was a real English "gentleman" and fled to the Soviet Union, hoping to see incarnation ...

As is known, the flag of the Russian Federation is a white-blue-red flag, but it does not correspond to the millennial tradition of the Rus. Russian flag, Russian color is red. All major ...

The Berlin offensive operation was one of the most recent operations of the Great Patriotic War and one of the most famous. In the course of it the Red Army took the capital of the Third Reich - Berlin, ...

The defense of the Brest Fortress is the Badge to the Third Reich about its further fate, it showed that at the very beginning of the Great Patriotic War the Germans had already lost. Made a strategic mistake, ...

The mythologizers of the Great Patriotic and Second World War gave birth to the fairy tale that the cavalry in this war was a relic of the past and was preserved in the Red Army only thanks to the marshals ...

The Battle on the Ice is one of the most famous battles in the history of Russia and one of the two battles that forever inscribed the name of Alexander Yaroslavovich in the heroes of Russian civilization. Alexander's activity caused ...

How can you resist an opponent’s strike if he has already launched an offensive? If the direction of the blow is not guessed, or defense does not stand? The most effective means against the advancing enemy ...

There was a stereotype that in 1930, the USSR was a “closed country”. However, even in the midst of Stalin's repression, not to mention the end of 1920, people wrote out foreign newspapers, listened to foreign radio, ...

One of the myths that was built after World War II, was the exaltation of defense in opposition to the offensive. The expression “a little blood on foreign territory” became one of the “accusations” ...

In many films and books about the Great Patriotic War, there is a significant bias in favor of negative elements: panic, huge columns of prisoners, the rapid advance of the enemy, deserters, ...