Interesting facts about the development of atomic weapons in our country
More than 66 years have passed since the moment when American aircraft used atomic weapons for the first time in the history of mankind. We will try to analyze the situation with the way in which it was born ...
Peace on the Road to World War I.
To understand the causes of a major war, whether regional or global, it is necessary to analyze the prerequisites for the start and outcome of a previous war. Many prerequisites and causes of the First World War ...
The heroic defense of Odessa: only the facts
70 years ago, October 16 1941, the defense of Odessa ended. Perhaps the Red Army and Navy did not have a more unusual defensive operation in 1941 year. Unusual was even armored vehicles, which ...
Donetsk Republic: Suddenly Resurrected Dream
Is it possible to erase the whole country from the memory of a nation? It turns out you can! If you open a modern Ukrainian history textbook, then there will be forty pages about the UPR, fourteen pages about ZUNR, and about ...
Tukhcharskaya Calvary of the Russian outpost
September 1999. Dagestan. For a month now, the flames of the "liberation" war unleashed in the mountains of the Botlikh, Tsumadinsky and Buinaksky regions have been blazing. She appeared from neighboring Chechnya ...
Mysteries of Viti Suvorov. Winged Jackal Saga
The birthday - or, more precisely, the "conception" - of the BB-1 / Su-2 aircraft should be considered December 27, 1936. It was on this day that the decree of the Labor and Defense Council was issued (hereinafter - a quote from the monograph ...
Foreign policy of the USSR in the era of "stagnation"
During the reign of Brezhnev, the Soviet Union acted relatively successfully in its confrontation with the West. In the Middle East, Moscow's aid helped Arab states to contain the onslaught ...
The lessons of the history of the Great Patriotic War
The history of wars should be studied not only in order to reduce losses in future wars, but also to live better today. "Only fools learn from their own experience. Smart people learn from someone else's" - rightly so ...
Soviet propaganda during the Great Patriotic War
One of the features of the Second World War was the active information warfare of the Soviet and Nazi regimes. Moscow and Berlin actively used technical innovations of the 20th century: radio, cinema, ...
Ac industrial espionage
It could not have occurred to anyone that the modest, seemingly inconspicuous aircraft designer Manfred Roths was in fact one of the aces of industrial KGB espionage. He worked as a responsible employee in ...
The history of cooperation between the USSR and China in the field of nuclear technology
Washington's atomic phobias also affect the interests of Moscow, traditionally maintaining good relations with Tehran and Pyongyang. True, in history there has already been a case when indulging Moscow's ambitions ...
World War II: The Fall of Nazi Germany, photo
After the invasion of the Allied forces in the western part of France, Germany gathered reserve forces and launched a counter-offensive in the Ardennes, which ran out by January. At this time, the USSR troops moving with ...
How the Pacific node was created
The knot of contradictions in the Asia-Pacific Region (APR) was created in the 19th century, when the great European powers began to actively develop this region, it was then that the Americans, using force ...
The childhood trampled by the war
According to well-known statistics, the Great Patriotic War claimed about 27 million citizens of the Soviet Union. Of these, about 10 million are soldiers, the rest are old men, women, children. But statistics is silent about ...
Paulus: pragmatist or traitor
More than 66 years have passed since the end of World War II. During this time, much has been rethought, much has been criticized, much has not been evaluated so far. There is no doubt about the feat ...
In 1930, the United States planned a war with Britain
Recently, the British newspaper The Daily Mail published scandalous materials, according to which, by 1930, the US military had developed a plan for the liquidation of the forces of the British army, ...
History of Russian Special Forces: Reed
Combat use of special forces in contemporary conflicts has become common practice. This is due to the fact that modern warfare very often requires the application of a surgical exact and at the same time ...
On the preparation of the American capital of World War II
In November 1918, the First World War ended, but it could not lead to a complete "modernization" of the world, which the world "financial international" started. The main task of the First World War ...
The role of commissars during the Great Patriotic War
The Bolsheviks, having begun to create the Red Army in 1918, were forced to bring in the command of its parts of the royal officers and generals, since there were simply no trained military personnel in the Red Army ....
World War II and the creation of a system of neo-colonialism
2 September 1945, the representatives of the Japanese Empire signed a surrender agreement was completed World War II. In the Soviet, Russian public consciousness, World War II was closed ...
The main milestones of the internal life of the USSR in the so-called the era of "stagnation"
After the removal of N. Khrushchev from power, the new leadership of the USSR - Brezhnev, Suslov, Kosygin, Podgorny, had to take urgent measures to rectify the situation in the country. Has been cancelled...
Time bomb
During the years of the Great Patriotic War, the nationwide struggle in the rear of the German fascist troops acquired enormous proportions. From the first days of the occupation in the enemy-occupied areas of Belarus, Ukraine, Soviet ...
And again miracles on the Kinburn Spit
Not long ago, an archaeological expedition sent by the Institute of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine discovered a pier built by the Turks on the Kinburn Spit. Many people know the expression "Our Kinburn Spit ...
The Soviet-Finnish war was made difficult by the lack of winter shoes for both armies.
The Red Army, as is known from history, suffered heavily during the Soviet-Finnish war that preceded the Great Patriotic War. In addition, the fighters were prevented from moving quickly into Finland ...