Three comrades served
A few months ago, the 20th Special Forces Detachment was liquidated in Saratov. Servicemen of the unit, for twelve years performing service and combat missions in hot ...
Chronicles of the Second World War: Eastern European Front
In the CIS countries, the war on the Eastern European Front, which has become the site of the largest military confrontation in history, is called the Great Patriotic War. More 400 military formations of the German and ...
About the battle that buried Barbarossa
70 years ago, on September 30, 1941, the Wehrmacht launched one of the most famous operations of the Second World War, it is known in German historiography as Operation Typhoon, and in our country as the Battle of ...
Swiss campaign of Suvorov and his wonder-heroes
The Swiss campaign of Russian troops under the command of Alexander Vasilyevich Suvorov (10 (21) September - 27 September (8 October) 1799) was an outstanding transition of the army through the Alps. This is a classic ...
Little known photos of the war
“When I, a writer, think about the profession of photojournalists in war, I think about how difficult this profession is. We can write later, we don’t have to write then. We can bring something to your ...
Military priest father Ciprian Peresvet
The priest is a purely male profession. Father Cyprian is an unusual priest: he went through two Chechen wars. He was on the front line, he had to sit with the soldiers in the trenches filled with ice water, and then ...
Some myths about the death of the USSR
The history of the Red Empire - the USSR is full of various myths. One of them is the noncompetitiveness of the Soviet Union. According to supporters of this idea, the socio-political and political ...
Russians were known as skilled combat pilots.
“It is imperative for the first to detect the enemy in the air, which will give an opportunity to seize the initiative, and therefore bring success ...“ Catching ”the enemy, the fighter pilot should not let him out of ...
Children's alphabet about the 1812 war of the year, published in 1814
Russian artists quickly and quickly responded to the invasion of Napoleon in Russia in 1812. Their task was to popularize the idea of the national character of war, to find a form that ...
"Mom, I'm back ..."
The feat of our soldiers, accomplished during the Great Patriotic War, will always remain a feat. Every day spent at the front was a feat. Each attack with a rifle at the ready deserves ...
Great Victory in Photos
9 May 1945 goes farther and farther from us, but we still remember how much our fathers and grandfathers paid that day and every year we celebrate this wonderful and tragic holiday together with the veterans ....
The first "Stinger"
President Reagan believed: once the Russians are bogged down in Afghanistan, this should be used. The United States began to actively help the mojahedin. Our soldiers in the Afghan mountains had to be the first to accept the challenge. "AT...
Chronicles of the Second World War: women in war
The countries-participants of the Second World War made every effort to win. Many women voluntarily enrolled in the armed forces or performed traditional male work at home, in enterprises and ...
Concentration camp inventors
Human rights in the XX century acquired unprecedented previously significant. Not least due to the fact that the colonial policy of some empires was truly inhuman. Today, not ...
Operation Market Garden
September 17 The 1944 of the year began one of the most risky operations of the Second World War. Paratroopers of three airborne formations of the Anglo-American troops, reduced to a new 1 ...
Day of Military Glory of Russia - Battle of Kulikovo 1380
September 21 celebrates the Day of Military Glory of Russia - the Victory Day of the Russian regiments led by Grand Duke Dmitry Donskoy over the Mongol-Tatar troops in the Kulikovo battle in 1380. Scary ...
"Khrushchev" - the first experience of "perestroika" in the USSR
The XX Party Congress (February 1956 of the year) was a terrible blow to the international authority of the Soviet Union and its future. Delegates to it were carefully selected, mainly from party apparatchiks ....
From Alexander II to Stolypin: the 30 anniversary of the Russian terror
13 September 1911, the murder of Stolypin in Kiev, ended the thirty-year period of revolutionary terror, which began with the murder of Alexander II in 1881. The centenary of the day of death ...
European veterans of the Second World War: reconciliation
American photographer Jonathan Alpeyri spent a year shooting veterans of the Second World War. The participants of his project were including veterans of the Wehrmacht and other Nazi formations of Europe ....
Frustrated friendship that could change the world
For many years after the end of the Second World War, the USSR government was silent about the Victory Parade of the Allied Forces, which took place on 7 on September 1945, in Berlin at the Brandenburg Gate immediately after ...
Little-known battle of the Patriotic War 1812 of the year: the battle of Klyastitsy
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 ...
Operation "Unthinkable." Spina shot from the "Allies".
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 ...
"Notebook of the executed general ..."
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:
Mud feat Panfilov not mess. Dmitry Yazov
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 ...