Children's letter from the war ...

Children's letter from the war ...

She was so desperate that she decided to commit suicide on the day of her 15 anniversary, but before that she wrote the last letter to her father. Reading hard, but very worth it ...
Scout weapons: courage, cunning, suddenness

Scout weapons: courage, cunning, suddenness

In the battles with the Nazi invaders, Soviet soldiers showed examples of military skill. And now, 66 years after the end of the Great Patriotic War, one of the most important sections ...
Poltava Khanate of the descendants of Mamaia

Poltava Khanate of the descendants of Mamaia

Probably, none of my recent articles made as much noise as the "Tatar root of the Cossack family." But the point put early. The steppe Turkic origins of the Ukrainian ethnos require further ...
The last battles of the Northern War: sea, land and diplomacy

The last battles of the Northern War: sea, land and diplomacy

After it became clear that negotiations on the Aland Islands would not be completed by the world and information appeared on the agreements of the former allies with Sweden, St. Petersburg decided to resume the military ...
Ivan Kulibin - the inventor and the favorite of the Empress

Ivan Kulibin - the inventor and the favorite of the Empress

For its long history, Russia has presented the world with many brilliant people. A worthy place among them is occupied by self-taught inventor Ivan Petrovich Kulibin. His name has long become a household name, so ...
What do we know about the Yugoslav war?

What do we know about the Yugoslav war?

Yugoslavia, being one of the largest European countries, has always been considered a common home for Croats, Serbs and Muslims. But in the 90-ies, she was plunged into a sharp ethnic conflict. 1992 ...
The collapse of the Soviet Union

The collapse of the Soviet Union

Everyone knows that the USSR went to death for a long time. The reasons can be called a lot - the authoritarian state, monocentric decision-making, the inability of the state to meet the needs of the population, ...
The mystery of the tragedy in Uglich will remain unsolved?

The mystery of the tragedy in Uglich will remain unsolved?

The tragedy in Uglich and today causes heated debates among historians. There are several versions of developments in this obscure period in the life of the Russian state. The last son of Ivan Vasilyevich ...
The truth about penalties

The truth about penalties

Penalty battalions of the fronts and individual penal companies began to be created in pursuance of the order of the USSR People's Commissar of Defense No. 227 from July 28 1942 of the year, which became known as the order of Stalin ...
Lucky to the lucky ones

Lucky to the lucky ones

Kandahar is a gloomy city / "Boers" rumble day and night. The words of the soldier's song aptly convey the atmosphere that reigned in the greenery throughout the years of the Afghan war. It was the domain of local "spirits" ...
Completion of the Iran-Iraq war. Features of the conflict

Completion of the Iran-Iraq war. Features of the conflict

By the beginning of 1987, the situation on the Iran-Iraq front was reminiscent of previous years. The Iranian command was preparing for a new decisive offensive on the southern front. Iraqis are betting on ...
About the "Prague Spring" 1968 of the year

About the "Prague Spring" 1968 of the year

Anatomy of an invasion After the collapse of the "socialist community" and the peaceful change of the social order in Eastern European countries, and then the collapse of the Soviet Union, a reassessment is taking place ...
Iran-Iraq war. Ch 3

Iran-Iraq war. Ch 3

In the summer of 1982, a new phase began in the Iran-Iraq war. The Iranian military-political leadership decides to transfer the war to Iraqi territory. Tehran planned to inflict a decisive ...
With Prussia - against France, with France - against Germany

With Prussia - against France, with France - against Germany

President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev “in order to attract public attention to Russian history and the role of Russia in the global historical process” announced 2012 is the Year of Russian history ....
Iran-Iraq war. Ch 2

Iran-Iraq war. Ch 2

By the beginning of the war, Baghdad in the border zone with the Islamic Republic had concentrated about 140 thousand people, 1,3 thousand tanks (mainly Soviet T-55, T-62 and T-72), 1,7 thousand guns and mortars, 350 ...
"To deceive the Germans put plywood tanks"

"To deceive the Germans put plywood tanks"

Boyko, Ivan Akimovich, a retired colonel. Born 19 March 1924, in the village Podvorki Pereyaslav-Khmelnitsky district of Kiev region. Member of the fighting in the 1-th Ukrainian Front 3-th ...
George Beregovoy: “I am a pilot. Profession Man

George Beregovoy: “I am a pilot. Profession Man

15 April is the birthday of the only front-line cosmonaut Georgy Timofeevich Beregovoy. The years of the birth of the future hero relate to the most difficult period in the history of the Russian state, ...
Iran-Iraq war. Ch 1

Iran-Iraq war. Ch 1

The Iran-Iraq war, which lasted from 1980 of the year to 1988, was one of the most difficult and bloody conflicts in modern human history. The relationship between Tehran and Baghdad was ...
Dr. Heim - the beast in human form

Dr. Heim - the beast in human form

He was a doctor at Mauthausen camp. He was called the Doctor Death. He conducted inhuman experiments on living people, made amputations without anesthesia, made various products from tattooed ...
The artillery story about the case of Borodino

The artillery story about the case of Borodino

There were many magnificent and strategic descriptions of the battle of Borodinsky, but the details of private actors are hidden; modest Russians are silent and leave the world to judge their valor. Russians ...