Pavel Danilin: MSU professors are destroying the Chechen historical myth
The shameful situation that we encountered in the Vdovin-Barsenkov case is extremely dangerous for historical science in general and for every historian in particular, "said September 13 during the past ...
"The right people" from Germany
What did German scientists do in Sukhumi ... and not only there Five years ago, in the western press, there was a commotion about the alleged leakage of radioactive materials from Abkhazia. In no one recognized then ...
Roast Roast
A werewolf from Lubyanka stole more than 10 000 secret documents. He was taken directly to the Lubyanka. Immediately after duty. In the eyes of astonished colleagues who have never seen anything like it, for half a century already ...
Sow Lentils - reap tragedy
In February 1944, at the direction of Joseph Stalin, the organs of the NKVD of the USSR carried out a special operation under the code name "Lentil", as a result of which from the Chechen-Ingush Autonomous ...
Soviet intelligence officers exposed American spies in the leadership of the USSR
In the highest echelons of the USSR, there were spies who worked for foreign intelligence services, according to a veteran of foreign intelligence, General Yuri Drozdov. According to him, a special list was created, which included ...
World War I could have been avoided
After Gavrila 28 Principle June 1914 committed the assassination of the Austrian throne, Archduke Franz Ferdinand, in Sarajevo, the opportunity to prevent war persisted, and neither Austria nor ...
Bunker "Robert"
The story of the elimination of the OUN conductor of the Carpathian Territory J. Melnik - "Robert". Successful implementation of the operation to eliminate "Robert" developed by the regional departments of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Ministry of State Security ...
In 1940, the British and French were going to bomb the USSR
England has long dreamed of cracking down on Russia. But she always tried to do it with someone else's hands. All the XVII-XIX centuries, the British attacked us on the Turks. As a result, Russia fought with Turkey in ...
Prisoners of the Red Army in the Polish camps
The voluminous volume “The Red Army soldiers in Polish captivity in 1919-1922” was prepared on the basis of a bilateral agreement dated December 4 from 2000. This is the first joint work of Russian and Polish historians and ...
American "generals" on Russian fields
The most "stupid" armored vehicles supplied by the USSR under Lend-Lease were the American medium tanks M3, versions of which in England were called "General Lee" and "General Grant". Everything...
Two big differences
As is known, all the current Russian generals and officers once took a military history course in schools and academies. However, it seems that not every representative of the highest and senior command ...
Underground submarine base in Balaclava - Object 825
15 kilometers from Sevastopol, between the Fiolent and Aya capes, there is one of the oldest Crimean settlements - Balaklava. In addition to unique natural monuments, traces of the Genoese ...
Soviet history of poisoning
In the second half of 30, a special toxicology laboratory was established in the NKVD, which since 1940 was headed by a brigade doctor and later by Colonel of State Security Professor Gregory ...
Young - Russian glory!
On the night of August 3, 1572, the Crimean army of Devlet-Girey, defeated on the Pakhra river near the village of Molody, hastily retreated to the south. Trying to break away from the chase, the khan put up several barriers ...
Russian Aviation is orphaned
A unique person died - Honored Test Pilot, Hero of Russia Colonel Sergey Melnikov A unique person died - Honored Test Pilot, Hero of Russia Colonel ...
Historians redefine the role of Russia in the defeat of Japan ("Rebelion", Spain)
While the United States atomic bombed Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945, one million six hundred thousand Soviet soldiers suddenly attacked the Japanese army in the east of Asia ...
In Bulgaria, at the bottom of the Black Sea, a Soviet submarine of the "C" series was found
A submarine was found in the Varna area by divers from a local club. The submarine lies at a depth of 35 meters, broken in two. Most likely she died in a mine explosion or as a result of an attack from the air. Divers ...
The legendary T-34
This tank is the most recognizable symbol of the Great Patriotic. The best in its class tank of the Second World. One of the most massive tanks in the world. The machine that forms the basis of the past throughout Europe ...
Churchill's toy soldiers, the militia
“The final victory of Germany over England is now only a matter of time. Enemy offensive operations on a large scale are no longer possible. ” The chief of staff of the operational management of the Wehrmacht ...
Anglo-Soviet occupation of Iran
In the history of the Second World War there are still quite a few pages that, unlike the Battle of Stalingrad or the Allied landings in Normandy, are little known to the general public. These include joint ...
One of the secrets of the Great Patriotic War opened the search engines of the Pskov region
In the history of the war, which ended over 65 years ago, there are still a lot of unknown pages. Search engines of the Pskov region found and raised from the swamp a Soviet reconnaissance aircraft, which, judging by ...
Wrangel liquidation
By the winter of 1920, the liquidation of the White movement seemed to be over. Kolchak and Yudenich were defeated, the group of General Miller in the north of Russia was destroyed. After masterfully "organized" ...
Could Germany create a nuclear bomb?
Statements made by General Groves after the war ... were probably intended to divert attention from the German isotope separation program. The idea was that if you hide ...
The fight, which was not
Whether new Soviet and Israeli tanks fought each other in the summer of 1982, as is known, the T-72 received the baptism of fire in 1982 in Lebanon. For a better understanding of the events described has ...