Severe autumn 1941 of the year in the city of Kuibyshev (now Samara) from the west of the country were a dozen large enterprises that were evacuated, which only two or three months after the move had already given out products ...

But the volcanoes were silent in those days, and the US did not conduct nuclear tests. From the English airfield rose the plane, which took air samples in the upper atmosphere. It turned out: 29 August on the territory ...

Disputes and discussions around the event that happened 69 years ago (the beginning of World War II) not only do not subside, but flare up with new force. Propaganda myths that should ...

In 1915, the world gazed with admiration at the defense of Osovets, a small Russian fortress in 23,5 km from what was then East Prussia. The main task of the fortress was, as the participant of the defense Osovets S wrote ....

October 16 1946 - the day when the ashes of eleven main war criminals - the Nazis sentenced to death by the Nuremberg ... - were poured into one of the tributaries of the Isar River (near Munich) ...

18-08-1995. If we lost this battle, the world would look different - without Poland. The Head of State and Commander-in-Chief Jozef Pilsudski did not intend to wait. He dreamed of the resurrection of the old Speech ...

For Soviet law enforcement, this story began at the end of January 1942, when Germany celebrated the tenth anniversary of the Nazis in power. This is what Joachim Wider, the officer, recalled ...

The cruel truth about the beginning of the war told in the letters of the soldier of the Great Patriotic War 65 years passed, the Great Patriotic War ended, the dust of those who fell in battles, but the incorruptible ...

The second half of the twentieth century began anxiously. The Cold War was raging in the world. Former allies in the anti-Hitler coalition stood on opposite sides of the barricades, the confrontation between them was growing ...

On the eve of the anniversary of the beginning of the Great Patriotic War, liberal historians and journalists climbed onto television screens and newspaper pages, like devils from a snuffbox. Still: I had a good one ...

The sad date of June 22 makes you remember how many questions the history of the beginning of the Great Patriotic War is still giving birth to. Why did the Kremlin ignore intelligence reports about training ...

Today we will try to look objectively at the myth about the mediocrity of the military leadership of the Red Army - the Soviet army - introduced into the public consciousness during the years of perestroika. A hundred times we have heard that ...

23 August 1939 in Moscow, USSR Commissar for Foreign Affairs Vyacheslav Molotov and German Minister of Foreign Affairs Joachim von Ribbentrop signed a non-aggression treaty between the two countries that immortalized ...

How we tried to steal a victory At dawn 1 of May 1945, the commander of the ground staff headquarters arrived at the command post of the commander of the 8 th Guards Army ...

Historical Truth and Sensational Quackery Recently, Nick Belantoni’s Hitler Escape film was shown on US screens. According to the film's author, the Führer of the Third Empire managed to secretly flee from Berlin from ...

For a big conflict, the European powers frantically prepared for several decades before 1914. And yet it can be argued: no one expected and did not want such a war ....

In the spring of 1945, when enemies penetrated deeper and deeper into the empire, German women and girls took up arms to defend the Motherland. We will talk about one such particularly successful episode. Between 8 and 12 ...

At the arms salon Eurosatory-2010 in Paris, Russia not only demonstrates its combat equipment, but also for the first time looks closely at the best Western models. And not out of sheer curiosity, but with a view ...

Soon we will be forced to believe that in 1941-1945, Stalin and Hitler fought against the West Cynical, but the true saying is that in high school there are two main subjects - ...

In December, 1940, Adolf Hitler began planning an attack on the then allied alliance with Nazi Germany, the communist Soviet Union. The operation had a code name ...

During the occupation of German territory, Soviet troops committed mass rape of local residents. "Soviet soldiers considered rape, often carried out in front of her husband and ...

Berlin's assault 21 April - May 2 1945 of the year refers to unique events in the world history of wars. It was a battle for a very large city with a lot of solid stone buildings. Even the struggle for ...

By the anniversary of the failure of the CIA operation in Iran Thirty years ago, in May 1980, the then US President and Supreme Commander Jimmy Carter declared mourning for the eight dead in the country ...

Today marks the 90 anniversary of the birth of the legendary pilot Ivan Kozhedub