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: ...

Confirmation of the allegations that the history of Europe was rewritten in the interests of the Vatican and the ruling Romano-Germanic elites is the work of the Dalmatian historian Mavro Orbini (1563 (?) - 1610) ...

70 years have passed since the beginning of the Great Patriotic War, but disputes about the reasons for the defeat of the Soviet armed forces in the initial period of the war have not ceased. There are many such theories ...

Once, in the circle of his associates, Nikita Khrushchev complained that the fraternal Communist Parties used the USSR as a financial "cash cow." They say that everyone demands and demands money, and then once - and go their own ...

The Battle of Kursk occupies a special place in the Great Patriotic War. It lasted for 50 days and nights, from July 5 to August 23 1943. By its bitterness and tenacity of struggle, this battle has not itself ...

While Svyatoslav Igorevich was settling affairs in Kiev, the Romans did not doze, deploying a stormy activity among the Bulgarians. They were again called "brothers" in faith, assured of friendship, promised to marry Tsarevich Boris ...

Brilliantly completing the Khazar campaign - having established a new border for Russia along the Volga and the North Caucasus, Svyatoslav did not sit back and “rest on the laurels of victory”, but others did not take up the decision ...

Unfortunately, modern Ukrainian history is built mostly on new myths that have been created to reinforce the differences between parts of the single Russian people. Modern Ukrainian ...

Dmitry Karov arrived in the Soviet occupied territory in August 1941. On it, he found people angry with Stalin and the NKVD, most of them easily agreed to work for ...

It is bitter to read, hard to watch, difficult to think about the initial weeks of the War - everything is so unbelievable, disastrous, bloody, so monstrous ... Such a picture. In the middle of summer - under the glittering ...