Spring letter
Dear Sergey! How nice that you are in the world. Having heard about you, every day, as if for the first time, I look forward to seeing you. Thank God, you're already an adult and you and I can afford more ...
30 April 1945 of the year. Victory Banner over the Reichstag
Intensive preparations for the assault on the Reichstag began on April 29. The lair of the Nazis, among other things, was also one of the central strongholds in the defense system of Berlin. The Reichstag building with three ...
The life of a military officer took the road
April 27 as a result of an accident on one of the Moscow streets died Hero of Russia Guard lieutenant colonel Anatoly Lebed. The bitter irony is that this combat officer of the airborne troops ...
How to revise the history of World War II
On the website "Military Review" an article was published not so long ago on how numerous attempts have recently been made to link the strategy and tactics of warfare ...
30 April - Victory Day in Vietnam
Today the Vietnamese celebrate their Victory Day (Saigon Liberation Day). 30 April 1975, the Vietnam War ended. Victory Day is a national holiday. Annually 30 April to ...
80 years since the creation of the police team of BRIGADMIL
29 April 1932 g. 80 years ago in the USSR, the Police Assistance Brigade (BRIGADMIL) was created. A prototype of the people's guards appeared in Russia as early as 1913, when the "Instructions for organizing ...
I wanted to lie, but I could not ...
... The usual business trip to the Lipetsk aviation center for combat use and retraining of flight crews took a day. Early in the morning, together with a group of flown officers, we disembarked from ...
The tragedy of Soviet prisoners of war
One of the worst pages of the history of the Great Patriotic War is the fate of Soviet prisoners. In this war of extermination, the words "captivity" and "death" became synonymous. Based on the goals of the war, ...
The main stereotype of the Russian army
In recent years, the Russian army has been criticized even by those who have none and have absolutely nothing to do with it. If offhand take 10 any newspaper, magazine or online publications, then ...
The war of extermination. H. 2
Continuing the theme raised in the article “The War of Destruction,” it is necessary to say that the atrocities of the Nazis on Soviet soil have no analogues. In Western countries - France, Belgium, Norway, Denmark, ...
Russian prima Nazi cinema
A student of the Russian school of theatrical art, she became the "film star number 1" of Hitler's cinema. Her closest friends were Eva Braun and Magda Goebbels. She was friends with Leni ...
BF air force in 1941 year
In June, 71 a year ago. (The author, if possible, has kept the terminology and stylistics of the presentation of material from the Military Historical Report on the military operations of the DCBF Air Force in the Great Patriotic War ...
Who and how is trying to kill patriotism in Russia?
For more than a thousand-year history, our state has repeatedly encountered the fact that it is customary to call an encroachment on its independence. From the Teutonic knights and the Mongol-Tatar hordes to ...
Hypersonic "Tu"
The fifties of the last century remained in history not only a period of rapid development of rocket technology, smoothly flowing into real rocket launcher. At this time, progress promised so wonderful ...
War of extermination
In modern Russia, remembering the Great Patriotic War, they say, write and shoot films about the causes of the war, military operations, mistakes of the Soviet command, they pay a lot of attention ...
Stepan Razin. The anniversary of the capture
In 1630, Stepan Timofeevich Razin was born in the family of wealthy Cossacks. The first documentary mention of Razin dates back to 1652 year, in connection with his petition for leave for pilgrimage to ...
Grigory Andreyevich Rechkalov - one of the undeservedly forgotten Soviet aces
Future twice Hero of the Soviet Union, one of the best Soviet aces, Grigory Andreyevich Rechkalov, was born on February 9 of the year 1920 in the village of Khudyakovo in the Irbit district in the most common peasant ...
Anatoly Korobenkov. How little we know about the Heroes of Russia
10 November 2002, Anatoly Korobenkov was awarded the Golden Star of the Hero of Russia, about which the current President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin signed a decree. The award was held in ...
The mythology of the Third Reich: racial theory
As already noted in the article VO - Mythology of the Third Reich: the idea of "pure blood", the myth of "blood purity" was the basis of the ideology of the Third Reich. "Blood Purity" was so great for German Nazis ...
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
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 ...
The last battles of the Northern War: the sea, land and diplomacy. H. 2
The beginning of the 1720 campaign was characterized by the fact that Sweden almost completely depleted its military potential and became dependent on British diplomacy. London tried to create a wide ...
Todres Krutyansky, he - Fedor Karin, he - an honorary security officer
The romance of the scout profession, presented to the average person in numerous movies, books and songs, is based on stories about illegal residents. It is their work that carries that risk and ...
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 ...