Caucasian Front in the First World War. Part of 2.
The Russian-Turkish (Caucasian) front was 720 kilometers long, stretched from the Black Sea to Lake Urmia. But one must keep in mind the most important feature of the Caucasian theater of military operations - ...
Who was behind eugenics and the Holocaust
The importance of racial hygiene was not obvious to the consciousness of all Germans until Adolf Hitler showed political activity, and only thanks to the Fuhrer our thirty-year dream of ...
08.08.08. Loss sides
On the night of 8 August 2008, the Georgian army entered the territory of South Ossetia and partially destroyed its capital, the city of Tskhinval. The Russian Federation, protecting the people of South Ossetia, most of them have ...
About lend-lease objectively and without emotion
What did the USSR receive from the Western allies in 1941-1945 What is a land lease (lend-lease)? This is a form of interstate relations, meaning a system for transferring or leasing military equipment, ...
Penalties in the war
Considers the enemy - we are morally weak. Behind him and the forest, and the city burned. You better cut wood for coffins - Penalty battalions are breaking through! Song of Vladimir Vysotsky "Penal Battalions" was written in 1964 ...
Dayton: the invisible anniversary
It has been 15 years since an agreement was signed in the not-famous American town of Dayton, which ended one of the phases of the Balkan crisis. It was called "On the termination ...
How our Saabs in Korea stole
The beginning of the fifties of the twentieth century was marked by the most ambitious and bloody conflict after the Second World War, the war in Korea, between the communist North and the pro-American South, in ...
Caucasian Front in the First World War. Part of 1.
The fighting began in November 1914, after the Ottoman Empire attacked the Russian Empire and lasted until March 1918, when the Brest Peace Treaty was signed. It was the last ...
Flight of the Erzerum Eagle
The chronicle of the Caucasian wars keeps many examples of how the soldiers of the Russian imperial army, men of courageous, determined and strong in spirit, sometimes committed during the hostilities ...
About the work of the secret courses of the castle Fridental
15 March 1942, at a meeting in Berlin, Adolf Hitler announced that by the summer of this year the Russian campaign would be successfully completed by Germany. - We will dismember Russia and make it stand on ...
Straits of sticking - from Byzantium to the present day
In a few months the world will celebrate the 75 anniversary of the Montreux Convention, which determined the status of the Black Sea straits of Bosporus and Dardanelles. The Montreux Convention is almost the only international ...
Polish soldiers in the service of Hitler
In the current situation, when the “Katyn song” about how brutally the USSR was guilty before Poland, turning it from a German governor-general into a state and allowing the Poles to settle on ...
Storming Amin's Palace
27 December 1979 was stormed to take Amin's palace near Kabul. As a result of the special operation, codenamed “storm-333”, Afghan President Hafizullah Amin was eliminated. This operation, ...
Bet more than Stalin
Why, despite all the efforts to convince people, the popularity of Stalin is only growing? Before a serious visit to Poland, Dmitry Medvedev again - and already somewhat annoyed - recalled the current ...
Back in line
The search engines found the wreckage of one of the T-60 tanks, which took part in the 41-year parade, and decided to restore it. The car, unfortunately, never got to the front, but was fired upon from the air ...
Prewar aircraft carriers of the USSR
Recently, publications about Soviet shipbuilding programs of the 1930s and 1940s are increasingly appearing. Do not overlook the projects and domestic aircraft carriers, but in addition to the general ...
How the text of the military oath transformed in Russia
While preparing the material for the next lesson in the 11 classes on life safety, I decided to diversify the material to follow the course of changing the text of the military oath in Russia since the beginning of the century. Oath in the Russian ...
Secrets of the Order "Victory"
It was the highest award in the USSR, intended only for supreme commanders. But Stalin, who ordered her to create it, did not suspect that Moscow jeweler Ivan Kazennov, a master of the highest qualification, ...
Great neotechestvennaya civil war
About the book by A. I. Denikin "Essays on Russian Troubles" There are stages in the history of countries that can be proud of, there are stages that can be regretted. The events that took place in Russia at the beginning of the twentieth century, -...
Russia and Ukraine - the story of dislike
It is necessary that the past does not interfere with the future of Lviv - these are streets named after the leaders of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists and “Heroes of the UPA”, houses with bas-reliefs of figures, which in 1941 — 1944 years ...
The outcome of the whole war was decided in Plevna.
133 a year ago, 28 November Art. style (December 11 style) 1877, the victory of Russian weapons ended the siege of the fortress of Pleven. Fighting for this fortress, which the Turkish troops under the command of the marshal ...
United States of Afghanistan?
Actually, the visit of British Prime Minister David Cameron to Afghanistan on December 6 would not have attracted much attention. It seems that such visits "without an announcement" of the first persons of the states whose military contingents ...
In vain they believed "bitch Goebbels." Or "devil Churchill" lured?
"... Here is a fascist poster from the Second World War ... Doesn't resemble anything? .." Instantly resembles documentary photographs of fascist executions. I watched a lot of archival "trophy" German photos and ...
Were the Soviet soldiers marauders?
I write down the words of my 90-year-old grandmother Alexandra Samoilenko. We sit in the kitchen in her apartment in Lviv, drink tea and talk about life. We say that a person should keep his ...