As the Germans are looking for soldiers of the Second World War

As the Germans are looking for soldiers of the Second World War

Erwin Kowalke tells German television about the fate of people in the trench they are digging. In the territory of present-day Germany and Poland, as well as in a number of Eastern European countries, lies in the ground no less than 1,2 ...
Warsaw Pact troops

Warsaw Pact troops

For more than 30 years of the Cold War, the huge tank armies of NATO and the Warsaw Pact countries were ready to turn Europe into a kind of battlefield near Prokhorovka, only inconceivably ...
Posters of the white days of the Civil War

Posters of the white days of the Civil War

Creating an image of the enemy is one of the main tasks of any propagandist. So, among the rank-and-file soldiers of the white armies, the Reds distributed posters and leaflets with a reminder that the White would follow ...
Military culture of the Cossacks

Military culture of the Cossacks

The Cossacks and its most numerous and famous part - the Donians - have made many glorious pages in the history of the Russian state. The opinion of many researchers of the Cossack culture that the Cossacks ...
Unsuccessful Soviet offensive in 1942

Unsuccessful Soviet offensive in 1942

The winter battles of 1941 near Moscow, Yelets, Rostov, Tikhvin, which led, if not to the encirclement, but at least to the retreat of the Germans, are obvious ... despite their bloodshed.
Kuzkina-mother and the Soviet Tsar-bomb

Kuzkina-mother and the Soviet Tsar-bomb

Fifty years have passed since the explosion of a high-power thermonuclear bomb on Novaya Zemlya. Even today, one cannot unequivocally assess this event without considering the situation, ...
Time of Troubles and the Cossacks. 4 part

Time of Troubles and the Cossacks. 4 part

In September 1611, the formation of the Second Militia began in Nizhny Novgorod. It consisted of citizens and peasants of the central and northern regions of the Russian state, supported him and the city ...
The Role of Morale in War

The Role of Morale in War

The article was published on November 9, 1941. The recognized specialist talks about the resilience of various peoples in the face of the global crisis. The area of ​​our planet is 55 million square miles, and ...
On the issue of Russia's imperial status

On the issue of Russia's imperial status

For years, 20 has been hotly debated in our society over whether we need an empire, what is the imperial status of a power and what means it can be achieved. Let's try to figure out ...
Feat Smolensk (1609-1611 years)

Feat Smolensk (1609-1611 years)

The ancient Russian city of Smolensk, which is located on both banks of the Dnieper, is known from chronicles from 862-863 as the city of the union of the Slavic tribes of the Krivichi (archaeological data ...
Caucasian Empire Frontiers

Caucasian Empire Frontiers

Decided to visit South Ossetia. I wanted it for a long time, and the case fell out now - in order to go completely to the void, I am not so much a journalist. And then it coincided that a friend was on a business trip here and questions where and how ...
Time of Troubles and the Cossacks. 3 part

Time of Troubles and the Cossacks. 3 part

The oath of the boyar government to prince Vladislav did not change the situation in a positive direction. Sweden received a pretext for war with Russia and the annexation of a number of northern territories, since it was in ...
Time of Troubles and the Cossacks. 2 part

Time of Troubles and the Cossacks. 2 part

The false Dmitry I generously gave away mercies: the boyars returned from disgrace, their estates were handed over to them, all the Romanovs were rehabilitated, Philaret Romanov was appointed the Rostov metropolitan. In the South of the country on 10 ...
Church and Great Patriotic War

Church and Great Patriotic War

The Church is often called the "second power", most of the secular kings perceived Orthodoxy as a tool to maintain their autocracy. The authorities tried not to spoil relations with ...
Time of Troubles and the Cossacks

Time of Troubles and the Cossacks

During the reign of Fyodor Ivanovich (1584-1598), Russia's power continued to grow. The Russian-Swedish war of 1590-1593 ended in victory, lost after the Livonian campaign were returned ...
"Valkyrie", blow up the wolf's lair

"Valkyrie", blow up the wolf's lair

According to the ancient Scandinavian and German myths, the daughter of a merited warrior or king (prince) named Valkyrie on a winged horse flies over the battlefield, picks up the dead warriors in order to ...
Victor Sinaisky “Meet the Messer”

Victor Sinaisky “Meet the Messer”

This article, written by a veteran of the Great Patriotic War, tells about the acquaintance of Soviet combat pilots in the summer of 1943 with the German Bf-109 fighter, one of the latest modifications ....
Death of cornet Biryukov and 48 Khopertsev

Death of cornet Biryukov and 48 Khopertsev

In the military life of the Cossacks in the Kuban, often a blind case forced the Cossack to either fight the enemy until the last tension and remain the winner, or lay down their heads in an impossible struggle. Allow ...
The world on the way to the First World War. Part of 4

The world on the way to the First World War. Part of 4

The Emperor of the German Empire and King of Prussia William II (15 June 1888 - 9 November 1918), finding himself on the throne, made a series of mistakes that led to a new cooling of relations with Russia. Apparently in ...
POWs of World War II

POWs of World War II

The history of wars is not only the history of battles, diplomacy, victories, defeats, orders of command and feats, it is also the history of prisoners of war. The fate of Soviet prisoners of war during the Second World War ...
About the reasons for the defeat of the White Army

About the reasons for the defeat of the White Army

One of the most controversial questions about the Civil War is the problem of the defeat of the “white”, the White movement. Someone talks about the small number of whites compared to the armadas of the reds, the second ...
Underwater stew

Underwater stew

In the summer of 1976, a gang of arms dealers was neutralized in Murmansk. The wildest case for those times, at that time it was somehow not accepted to trade weapons. When all intruders were caught, ...
The world on the way to the First World War. Part of 3

The world on the way to the First World War. Part of 3

After the Berlin Congress 1878, when Russia took away the fruits of its victory, St. Petersburg again revised its policy. Therefore, when in 1881, a terrorist killed Alexander II, who replaced him ...