Without any slogans on certain death
A new story about the feat of "The Immortal Garrison" At the end of last September, on NTV, during prime time (on 19.30), more than a one-hour documentary and publicism was shown ...
Shubu for service
Today, soldiers and officers who have manifested themselves in the military service are usually celebrated with state awards - titles, orders, medals, and a little less often - nominal weapons. And what encouraged the warriors in Russia ...
For what Stalin removed from the post of "Marshal of Victory" Zhukov (documents)
On the pages of our site a frequent topic is the theme of the Great Patriotic War ..... special disputes flare up around the evaluation of the actions of the military leadership of the Soviet army, especially around one of ...
The last fortress of the Russian Empire
She could not resist the onslaught of the enemy, because she didn’t meet modern requirements at all. One of the reasons for Russia's defeat in the First World War was the catastrophically fast surrender in 1915 ...
As a Russian officer beat Napoleon himself
The fate of this man is amazing. Handsome, heartbreaker and mot, but at the same time the bravest officer, a brilliant intelligence officer, the commander of a partisan detachment, and by the end of his life - the most luminous prince and supreme ...
Revising Russian History ('The National Interest', USA)
This year, one of the main themes of the Valdai Club was the reconciliation of views on Russian history of the twentieth century, or rather, on its terrible period between the revolution in 1917 and the death of Stalin in 1953 ...
Death squads, elite Russian volunteer units in 1917 year
Anyone who is interested in the topic of the First World War or the formation of the Russian army often faced with very troubled times of splitting the Russian army of the 1917 period of the year. Especially the so-called ...
Frick - Himmler (Very interesting document)
A report by the Reichsmistr of the Interior, Dr. Frick and the Reichsführer SS, and the head of the German police, Himmler, to the German imperial government on the subversive work of the Soviet Union against ...
Moscow in summer 1941 of the year
In July 1941, Margaret Bourke-White, a photojournalist for the American magazine "Life", arrived in military Moscow. She worked in unique conditions: with the advent of the war, the shooting mode in Moscow ...
Who actually won the world space race?
Roald Sagdeev - about how Niels Bohr did not fit into Leninism, why Landau did not honor Lomonosov, about innovations behind barbed wire, Chinese trousers, Academician Kurchatov, about his kinship with Dwight ...
Island Empire Impact Fleet
Varyag (before 19 June 1990 of the year - "Riga"), the heavy aircraft-carrying cruiser of the 1143.6 project 6 of December 1985, was laid at the Black Sea shipbuilding plant in Nikolaev (serial number 106), launched on the 25 ...
Found a braid on the stone
13 June 1942 of the year would be another ordinary day of the Second World War in the Black Sea theater of military action, if not for one “but”. It was on this summer day that two Soviet torpedo boats made ...
SIX: the story of the British Intelligence Service ('Daily Mail', UK)
The article is dedicated to the release of Michael Smith's book "SIX: The History of the British Intelligence Service" "When Commander Mansfield Smith-Cumming received a summons from the Admiralty in 1909 with ...
Don Service Komarich 1646 of the Year
In the Tatar invasions of 1643-45 on the territory of the Moscow state, as reported by various sources of the time, took part from 50 to 60 thousands of Crimeans. Such serious ...
Treason, which was not
On the Internet on several sites posted material S. Pokrovsky entitled "Treason 1941 of the Year", and 4, 11 and 18 of August the newspaper "Red Star" published an article "The Mysteries of the Year ..."
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 ...