Living dead
And Prince Igor said to his soldiers: “My team and brothers! It is better to sweat the life than to be full of food! ”“ Word about the regiment of Igor ”From time immemorial, people are at war with each other. The result of this is often captive. Wounds, ...
Why did Stalin destroy the "Stalin Line"?
Fortifications (SD) in the construction plans of the Red Army was assigned a very important role. According to the plans, they were supposed to cover the most important operational areas and areas from which ...
Psychological war or anatomy of deception
“Propaganda has nothing to do with the truth.” Goebbels “With the help of skillful and prolonged use of propaganda, people can see heaven as hell and, conversely, the poorest life is like paradise.” Hitler ...
Not serious about serious: "Murphy's Laws about War"
Armed forces are one of the key elements of any state. At the same time, it is a very important social institution of society, which in one way or another covers almost everyone ...
Archipelago Province of Russia
26 — 27 On June 1770, the Russian squadron under the command of Count Alexei Orlov burned down the Turkish fleet in Chesmenskaya Bay. Killed 14 ships, 6 frigates and up to 50 small ships. Russian trophies have become ...
Battle of trafalgar
21.10.1805, at Cape Trafalgar (Trafalgar), near the city of Cadiz (Spain), during the French war against the 3 th anti-French coalition. The English fleet of Admiral G. Nelson defeated the Franco-Spanish fleet ...
Found a chest with details from the legendary Enigma
A chest was raised from the bottom of the Baltic Sea, in which the rotors of the Enigma, the legendary encryption machine of the Third Reich, had been lying for almost 70 years. These cogwheels with the alphabet printed on them ...
Operation "Cheese"
In the fall of 1979, the Rhodesians paid close attention to Zambia - more precisely, its economy. Rhodesia did not have access to the sea - but also Zambia did not have it, and therefore part of its exports ...
Palomares. Hydrogen bombs on the beach
The plane crash over Palomares (Spain) occurred on January 17 1966, when the American strategic bomber B-52 with thermonuclear weapons on board collided with the KC-135 tanker ...
Stalingrad
The farther from Moscow, the less foulness in the guise of Russian cities. Perhaps this is not for long, the liberal scum will soon reach the regions, but so far people remember the exploits of their ancestors and respect them ...
Zeravshan campaign 1868 g (From the history of the conquest of Turkestan)
After the unsuccessful Crimean War 1853-1856. The Russian government was forced to temporarily change the vector of its foreign policy from Western (Europe) and South-Western (Balkans) to Eastern and ...
Mr Serdyukov - who is he?
The current Minister of Defense is of course an ambiguous figure, one can even say that during his leadership A.E. Serdyukov became an odious figure for his department and the country as a whole. For what ...
Another forgotten feat
There was a kind of symbolic act, which drew a line under the First World War, - the Federal Republic of Germany transferred the last tranche to 70 million dollars in repayment of reparations, set by Versailles ...
Torpedo for "I.Stalina"
The tragic fate of the “Joseph Stalin” turbo electric boat that had been blown up and abandoned in a minefield had been silent for forty-eight years. A few publications usually ended with the message: ships ...
Mayan army
Many researchers often wonder: why in Latin America is such a large role of the army, if in recent decades there have not been major military conflicts? In order to sort out ...
From sin to root, why the Russians did not go on a crusade
First, some Russian thugs in KP-I participated and were mentioned by non-Russians. Secondly, let's remember what happened in Russia in 1096 year. 13 April 1093, the Grand Duke Vsevolod died ...
Moscow trams in the battles for Soviet power
This, already relatively late photograph shows, obviously, not the first version of an armored vehicle built by Zamoskvoretsk trams during the battles for power in Moscow during the Revolution ...
Defeat
In the Red Army, photographing against the background of the enemy's bat equipment was not common. Just because of the smaller number of cameras in the hands of the soldiers and the population. Plus the difficulty with developing and ...
Wehrmacht stoned
9 November 1939 of the year Dear parents, brothers and sisters, I serve in Poland, it is difficult here and I ask you to understand me when I will write only every 2-4 of the day, today I write only to ...
From "sea soldiers" to "black death"
This year, the next, already 305, in a row, the anniversary will be celebrated by one of the most famous branches of the troops of the domestic Armed Forces - the marines. The epochs changed, the state changed ...
Henkel He 1079B / I and B / II
The appearance of this car is just fascinating, no wonder it is now often compared with modern American stealth machines. The designers of this aircraft were Siegfried Gunter and Eichner Hochbach. By the way ...
Lost wins - 2. findings
According to the memoirs of Guderian, Middeldorf, Mellenthin, Manstein and Tippelskirch 1) Hitler interfered with us. Hitler was a fool. The German soldier was driving. The German commander was like the Great Frederick, but without ...
Hand-to-hand fight. Soviet history
In the young Soviet Union, hand-to-hand fighting developed in a special way. This direction coincided with the vector of development of the country. In the rejected "legacy of autocracy," national fistfight and schools remained ...
Why didn't the fascists seize Moscow?
In one of the programs V. Pozner claimed that in 1941 Russian roads prevented the Germans from taking Moscow. Of course, Posner is not the first to try to belittle the heroism of the Soviet ...