The myth of collapse of corpses (losses in the Great Patriotic War)
We often hear that the loss ratio of the USSR and Germany with the allies in World War II was 1: 5, 1: 10, or even 1: 14. Then, of course, the conclusion is made about "laying down ...
Operation Iskra New Year's Gift Stakes of the Supreme Command Leningrad
For the winter campaign of 1942-1943 by the Supreme Command in addition to the planned operation to defeat the fascist group that had broken through to the Volga and the foothills of the Caucasus, it was planned to ...
The landing of the first throw
The story of the Hero of the Soviet Union, Makar Andreevich Babikov, about the military operations of the Pacific Fleet Special Forces detachment, about the Leonovka scouts, who captured the four berths in broad daylight ...
Raghib Bey squad, rehearsal of the Afghan war
In the first half of April, 1929, the Soviet-Afghan border, near the city of Termez, which is located in Tajikistan, crossed the riders, the number of 2000 people. All the fighters of this ...
On the destruction of European invaders
6 January 1813 of the year (25 December 1812 of the old style), the emperor of the Russian Empire, Alexander I, issued the Imperial manifesto on the "expulsion of the adversary." In December, 1812, the pitiful remnants of the "Great ...
Caucasian Front in the First World War. Part of 3
By the end of 1915, the situation on the Caucasian front was stable, the Russians won the war in several battles, stood on foreign territory in 70 km. from Erzerum. But the Turks regained their ...
Jewish soldiers of Hitler
The Jewish soldiers of Hitler: the untold story of Nazi racial laws and people of Jewish descent in the German army. Brian Mark Rigg's book (Israeli citizen), claiming to ...
The last machine gun Degtyarev
2 January 2011 was 131, the year since the birth of the outstanding gunsmith Vasily Alekseevich Degtyarev (1880-1949). He commissioned our army a number of successful samples ...
Stalin's jet engine
11 February 1943 was signed a decree on the creation of the Soviet atomic bomb. The documents encrypted the bomb under the abbreviation RDS-1. Two main stages of the USSR atomic project are distinguished: the first ...
Fall of Port Arthur
2 January 1905, the Russian naval fortress Port Arthur fell. During the Russian-Japanese war of 1904-1905, the heroic defense of the Russian naval fortress Port Arthur ended, ...
Kim Philby - Intelligence Genius
“The information that the Soviet secret services mined through their intelligence operations during World War II helped the USSR’s military efforts and was such ...
Black Sea Fleet in the First World War. Part of 4
1916 was a victorious year for the Black Sea Fleet: it confidently controlled the sea, practically blocked the Bosphorus with minefields, performed landing operations, supported the Caucasian and Romanian fronts ....
Black Sea Fleet during the First World War. Part of 3
In 1915, the Black Sea Fleet strengthened its superiority and almost completely controlled the sea. Three brigades of battleships were formed, the bearing forces were active, and the fighting forces were increasing ...
Legendary one hundred grams
One hundred grams of front-line, which were widely known as “Commissariat”, were introduced from 1 September 1941 by personal order of I. Stalin. The situation at the front at that time evolved ...
LA-176 overtaken sound
26 December 1948 of the year, on the Black Sea coast, an experimental aircraft with a large-swept wing La 176, created by the design bureau S. A. Lavochkin, under the control of Captain Oleg ...
Battle of Kulikovo - Donskoy cunning
In 1380, Prince Dmitry Donskoy defeated the Mongolian army under the leadership of Khan Mamai on the Kulikovo field. In some historical works you can read that Dmitry Donskoy did not lead ...
Operation "Storm-333" the beginning of the Afghan war
25 December 1979 of the war began, which took 14 427 in the lives of Soviet soldiers, which lasted 9 years 1month 18 days and gave a powerful impetus to changing the geopolitical situation in the world. Spring 1978 of the Year ...
"Network centric warfare", is it really good
The fathers-inventors of the Net-Centric Warfare concept are the Vice-Admiral of the US Navy A. Sebrovski and the professor, the expert of the Committee of the Chiefs of Staff of the US Armed Forces D. Garstka ....
Black Sea Fleet during the First World War. Part of 2
The fighting began on the Black Sea unexpectedly for the Russian Empire. The Black Sea Fleet was taken by surprise and only the lack of sufficient firepower, dispersal of forces, prevented ...
24 December. Day of the capture of the Turkish fortress Ishmael
Victory in the Russian-Turkish war 1768-1774. provided Russia access to the Black Sea. But under the terms of the Kyuchuk-Kaynardzhiysky Treaty, the strong fortress of Izmail, located at the mouth of the Danube, remained ...
Historians are still struggling with the question: for whom was the victory in the battle of 1812 in Borodino?
Logic suggests that it seems the French - then we retreated. The strategy says that the French were so exhausted then that their defeat was only a matter of time, which means victory for us. A life...
Tragedy in Belarus (1941)
The epic drama of the defeat of the Western Front in June 1941 became a textbook example after the war, along with the defeat of Samsonov’s army in Prussia in 1914. Already 28 June, the Germans occupied Minsk. In two...
Trojan horse named "Chrysostom"
November 16 Official diplomatic relations were established between the US and the USSR on November 1933, and work began immediately to establish informal relations. The main goal for security officers in this work ...
The actions of the Georgian army in South Ossetia
The Georgian army, totaling about 20 thousand people, was trained by American instructors, the cost of its creation amounted to 2 billion dollars. The army tried as far as possible to abandon the old ...