Hundreds and thousands of books and articles have been written about the initial period of the Great Patriotic War, films have been made, and many “copies” have been broken in various disputes. But still there is a question - how can this be? Why powerful ...

The plans of the Nazis included a complete solution to the "Russian question." So, in the instruction for the soldiers of the Wehrmacht "Military training in the army" it was said: "For your personal glory you must kill exactly 100 ...

One of the undeclared wars in which the Soviet Union fought was the battles on Khalkhin Gol (May 11 - September 16 1939). It was in this war that Marshal Zhukov's star rose, and he became a hero ...

The topic of repression against traitors and collaborators was raised in the West during the years of the “cold war”, they were considered to be crimes of the “bloody” Stalinist regime. Although then such charges ...

In the Baltics, and in Russia, many believe that the Nazi’s Baltic accomplices were severely punished: some were shot, others were sent to the Siberian gulag. But these opinions are just another myth, not ...

History has never concealed the fact that the Nazi leader was not indifferent to mysticism. The Fuhrer hoped that otherworldly forces would help him conquer the world, and threw at the excavations and searches for artifacts ...

At the beginning of the 19th century, the Russian Empire had vast possessions not only in the Asian part of the Pacific region, but also in the American - the Aleutian and Hawaiian Islands, the Alaska Peninsula, the possessions in ...

70 years ago, in April 1941, a new state appeared on the political map of the world - “Independent State of Croatia”. Created on the ruins captured by German and Italian troops ...

The publication history of the three-volume diaries of Lawrence Beria reminds of the plot of a detective novel. Sergey Kremlev, author of 13 volumes on historical topics, including the book “Beria. The best manager of the twentieth ...

The Order of Alexander Nevsky was considered the youngest sign in the series of Soviet military awards. Although many falerists call it the most beautiful award of the USSR. According to the statute, she was handed ...

In 1999, Russia launched its second Chechen campaign. As at the end of 1994, Russian troops had to storm the capital of the republic, the city of Grozny. This assault did not become an easy walk for ...

Penal battalions firmly entered the arsenal of "accusers" of the Red Empire. If you learn our history from TV shows and films like “Penalty Battalion”, “Bastards”, then a picture is created where the war was won ...

The Great Patriotic War was not an ordinary war, for disputed lands, any hostility - it was a war of destruction. Some system of values ​​had to win - the Soviet one, or ...

12 April, our state celebrated the 50 anniversary of the first manned space flight. This day was truly stellar in the history of our Motherland, and the name of Yuri Alekseevich Gagarin went down in history not ...

Perhaps the most vile "black myths" about the Great Patriotic War were: the myth of the vainness of the victims, the myth of the identity of Stalin and Hitler and the myth of the defeat of real "fighters with tyranny" ...

The siege of Leningrad by the Nazis did not remain overlooked by the "whipers" of the Red Empire. There were even opinions that it was necessary to give the second capital to the Wehrmacht and thereby save hundreds ...

This sign personifies many symbols, and it can be found on coins, posters, buildings, yes, in general, anywhere. But in the Russian army he has his special status: a five-pointed star - a symbol ...

Historians have published documents that relate to the Soviet space program. Proceeding from their declassified documents, during the creation of the first ultra-long Soviet missiles, the designers of the USSR ...

The Soviet-Finnish war of 1939-1940 has become quite a popular topic in the Russian Federation. All authors who love to go through the "totalitarian past," love to remember this war, to remember ...

It is unlikely that those who are close to 60 by age, or older than these years, do not remember how they first heard about Gagarin’s flight. I personally heard about this on the way to the military registration and enlistment office of the Frunze Academy ....

After the First World War, as a result of the collapse of the Russian Empire, the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, a number of new states were formed. Stalin, in contrast to Lenin and other figures of "Lenin ...

The Polish political elite, like the overwhelming majority of the intelligentsia, loves to “savor” the sins of Stalin’s “bloody regime”. But he does not like to remember his gift - a significant increment of the territory ...

Berlin 1 September 1939 attacked Poland, throwing almost all the main forces and all tank units against it, the western border was bare. The Reich Armed Forces had a complete advantage over ...

1 September 1939 of the year at 4: 30 am The Reich Air Force attacked Polish airfields, and the Wehrmacht units crossed the border in 15 minutes. Thus began the operation "Weiss". Apparently, in Berlin ...