One of the little-known battles of the Patriotic War of 1812 was the battle of Klyastitsy. In this 3-day battle, the Russian troops under the command of Lieutenant General Pyotr Khristianovich ...
The Third World War was to begin on July 1, 1945, with a sudden strike by the Anglo-Saxon combined forces against the Soviet troops ... Now, few people know this, and the way Stalin did ...
In the Central Archive of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, the report of Lieutenant-General Aviation E. Ptukhin, Commander of the Air Force of the Kiev Special Military District, has been preserved:
In December of this year, not only the peoples of Russia, but also all citizens of the former Soviet Union will celebrate the 70th anniversary of the defeat of the Nazi troops near Moscow. Having failed in trying with ...
British journalist E. Osborne made another batch of falsification of history. The English newspaper "Telegraph" published his article "Russia and Poland: 400 Years of Enmity". The article contains a lie about ...
The North African campaign, in which the Allied forces and the Axis countries launched a series of attacks and counterattacks in the deserts of North Africa, lasted from 1940 to 1943 a year. Livia is already a few ...
Man always wanted to fly like a bird! With envy, he looked at the winged creatures, who soared soaringly into the sky, fell boldly down and floated in the air currents. And the man built ...
One of the days of Russian military glory, celebrated on September 11, is the Victory Day of the Russian squadron under the command of F.F. Ushakov over the Turkish squadron at Cape Tendra. This event belongs to the period ...
More than 66 years have passed since the end of the Great Patriotic War, and since the last explosions of the Russo-Japanese war died down, and with it the 2 World War II.
In the period from the summer of 1985 to autumn 1986, he served in the "3 separate motorized rifle battalion", which was stationed in Kandahar province DRA. 3 omsb is a conditional closed ...
In August 1812, two opposing armies met in a fierce battle on the Borodino field: the Russian army under the command of infantry general Mikhail Illarionovich Golenishchev-Kutuzov ...
During the Great Patriotic War, the tactics of partisan warfare developed widely and comprehensively. Its characteristic feature was an extraordinary variety of methods of action. Partisans like ...
The question of why the Red Army lost the border battles in Belorussia, in Ukraine (although in the KOVO defense zone everything was not so clear) and in the Baltic States it has long been occupied by minds and ...
No matter how controversial the figure of Moammar Gaddafi, experts agree that more than forty years of his rule had a great influence on the development of the sub-Saharan region of Africa. Herman Cohen, ...
Interestingly, the term “thaw” itself was introduced into use when, in reality, no “thaw” still smelled. The word launched by Ilya Ehrenburg - the author, very peculiar. During the civil war ...
The Smersh documents of the 11 Army open the curtain on the mystery of the disappearance of museum treasures from Koenigsberg in 1945. Some time ago, while conducting research in Central ...
Almost a hundred years ago, by decree of the Military Council, a four-gun battery was built at Cape Kurona, on the western shore of Balaklava Bay, to protect Sevastopol. This southernmost outpost ...
Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev became a kind of "ram", with the help of which the plans of Stalin and Beria were crushed. And on the basis of his memoirs, many "black" myths defaming the Stalin were formed ...
Perhaps Charles de Gaulle is one of the three figures in the history of France, along with Cardinal Richelieu and Napoleon, which should be particularly highlighted. He dared to challenge the people who stood behind the United States, so ....
The years leading up to the declaration of war between the countries of the Nazi bloc and the anti-Hitler coalition in 1939 were difficult for many countries of the world. Ten years earlier, the Great ...
5 March 1953, a real titan, one of the greatest figures of not only Russian, but also world history, Joseph Stalin, died. With him went a whole epoch, full of struggle and accomplishment, ...
Having won the Second World War, the USSR got the opportunity to create its own world order - the world socialist system. It became an alternative for countries that did not want to follow the path ...
29 August 1941, the world media announced the German-Italian declaration on the establishment of its “new order” in Europe. Today, few people know about the content of this document and other similar ...
Back in the middle of the XNUMXth century, a Georgian or Lezghin youth considered the severed hands of a person from a neighboring tribe to be the best gift for a bride for a wedding. And the auls in the Caucasus then organized competitions: ...