It was in Japanese an incredibly exquisite beginning of the war. On December 7, 1941, Japanese aircraft attacked the American fleet at Pearl Harbor exactly five minutes before the flag was raised. This ...

The history of the Anders Army (or the 2nd Polish Corps) in Russia is not entirely unknown, but is somewhere on the sidelines of the memory of the Great Patriotic War. This formation was created ...

Ancient, like Russia itself, the city-warrior and the city-worker Yelets (the city was first mentioned in the annals in 1146) wrote many glorious pages in its history. He was an important stronghold that ...

Georgy Zhukov - one of the most talented commanders of the XX century. For all the patriots of his homeland, he is a symbol of the resilience and inflexibility of the national spirit, vividly manifested in ...

In the summer of 1918, a twenty-year-old Red Army fighter Konstantin Kukin arrived from Bryansk to the area of ​​the small town of Rechitsa, Gomel Province, together with a group of Bolshevik military personnel. In the territory...

After the defeat of Germany at Stalingrad, Finland began to look for ways out of the war. Back in March, 1943, Germany demanded that the Finns sign a formal commitment to a military alliance with ...

During the Great Patriotic War from July 10 to September 10, the Smolensk battle took place on September 1941, which significantly delayed the German offensive against Moscow. The defense of the city itself ...

For Germany, the situation at the end of 1944 did not look as catastrophic as it did, for example, in the summer of that year. The common ticks threatened by the Allies and the Soviet Union are still ...

"Truly Russian courage" of the Black Sea sailors in the Battle of Sinop. On November 18 (30), 1853, the Battle of Sinop took place, in which the Russian Black Sea Fleet under the command of an admiral ...

After the failure of the October offensive on the capital of the USSR, the German command decided to prepare a new strike by the troops of Army Group Center to encircle and capture Moscow by covering it from the north and ...

The Warsaw Uprising is an anti-fascist military uprising that took place in August-September 1944. In July of this year, the troops of the Soviet Army crossed the Polish border and under its pressure ...

How "famous historian" seeks to prove their case. Doctor of Philology Boris Sokolov made another attempt to “confirm” the numbers of demographic he promoted since 1993 ...

The Red Army counteroffensive near Moscow was the first major offensive in the Great Patriotic War (1941-1945). By the beginning of December 1941, groups rushing to the capital of the USSR ...

The armored industry of Germany is a developed branch of the military-industrial complex of the country. It is able to provide the production of all types of armored combat vehicles (BBM): tanks, infantry fighting vehicles (BMP), ...

Nowhere and never has the Russian empire fought for as long as in the Caucasus. Although it would seem: what for the Russian generals who were used to winning not only the Turks and Iranians, but also Napoleon, a handful of highlanders? ...

The 115 anniversary of the birth of Georgiy Konstantinovich Zhukov (19 November) has come. And today you can meet such disputes between military and civilian historians - Zhukov: a genius or a villain? ...

An interesting fact is that in the German Empire at the beginning of the XNUMXth century, not only pan-Germanists, representatives of the nobility, the military were supporters of the plan to create "Greater Germany", the leader of the world ...

About two hundred and fifty kilometers south of Leningrad, between the lakes Ilmen and Seliger, at the beginning of 1943, the German front was still deeply wedged in the shape of a mushroom into Soviet territory. It...

After the end of World War II, many cities in Europe and Asia lay in ruins, borders changed, someone was buried, and someone returned home, and everywhere they began to build a new life ...

Japanese pilot: “I saw flashes of flames under the wings of Russian planes” The world learned about Soviet achievements in the field of rocket and artillery technology in the first weeks of the Great Patriotic War ...

Most of the Russian posters during the Russo-Japanese War belonged to the lubok genre. The Japanese on these posters looked stupid and weak, a ridiculous adversary to deal with ...

This regular failure of not fully sane people in lamb hats, who imagined that Ukraine is them, entered the school history textbooks under the name “Other Winter Hood”. Actually fight ...

The air force of the Third Reich (Luftwaffe) from the very beginning of the war with the Soviet Union had to experience the fury of the Soviet "falcons". Heinrich Goering, Reich Minister of the Imperial Ministry ...

It has now become fashionable to accuse the USSR of fomenting the Second World War, saying that the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact has untied the hands of fascist Germany. Almost everyone knows about this pact, but we are constantly informed about it ...