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

The war becomes a cruel examiner for the army’s weapons system. It happens that it is better to “pass the exam” for those types of weapons and military equipment that did not promise much success. Of course, on them ...

Louis de Wal was able to convince MI5 intelligence that the Fuhrer’s tactical decisions were strongly influenced by his horoscope. He proposed to study that the stars are preparing for Hitler, as well as for other major ...

In the 1930-ies grandiose construction was launched in the Far East ... During the years of World War II, the Atlantic Wall became widely known. Fortifications built on the orders of Hitler ...

This war was the first war of the 20 century and is interesting from many different points of view. For example, on it, both conflicting parties massively used smokeless powder, rapid-fire guns, ...

By the 70 anniversary of the famous evacuation of British troops under Dunkirk "Britain has no permanent enemies and regular friends, it has only permanent interests," - this is not known by whom and when said ...

The theme of the Nazi military expeditions to the Arctic was one of the most mythologized in the history of the Second World War - from the "Base" Nord "to everything connected with the" Annenerbe ". In fact, everything was ...

How the Red Army Air Force was beheaded. The war for the Soviet Air Force began much earlier that Sunday morning when German bombs rained down on "peacefully sleeping airfields." The hardest ...

Work on the creation of ballistic and cruise missiles began in Kaiser Germany at the end of the First World War. Then engineer G.Obert created a project for a large liquid fuel rocket, equipped ...

As is known, in the “union of the indestructible republics of the free” a “new historical community — the Soviet noorodor” was created. "The Indestructible Block of Communists and Non-Party People" regularly gained 99,9% of votes ...

The beams of the searchlights hit the smoke, nothing is visible, the Seelow Heights, fiercely snarling with fire, are ahead, and the generals fighting for the right to be the first to be in Berlin are driving behind. When big ...

95 years ago, in the May days of 1915, the Russian army, bleeding profusely from the lack of ammunition, heroically repelled the attacks of the enemy on the fields of Galicia. Concentrating more than half of their ...