Berlin Price: Myths and Documents

Berlin Price: Myths and Documents

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 ...
For which they fought in the First World War

For which they fought in the First World War

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 ...
Fight in the sky over the Urals

Fight in the sky over the Urals

Eight anti-aircraft missiles were launched during the destruction of the Lockheed U-2 reconnaissance aircraft. Today, few people know that the fate of Hiroshima and Nagasaki after the war could befall any of the cities of the USSR ...
USSR twice did not use the chance to eliminate Hitler

USSR twice did not use the chance to eliminate Hitler

The Soviet Union at least twice had the opportunity to physically eliminate Adolf Hitler, but Stalin did not allow it, fearing the conclusion of a separate peace of Germany with the allies, said during ...
Holy War of the Soviet people

Holy War of the Soviet people

Why did we win? The detailed answers to this question are dimensionless, as are the answers to the question of why we could not but win. We are not the first, we are not the last. By the way, elementary good faith ...
Great economy great war

Great economy great war

Despite the terrible losses, the economic system of the USSR was able to ensure victory. The direct damage inflicted by the Great Patriotic War on the economy of the USSR amounted to almost one third of the total national ...
Afghan Spirits: American Myths ('World Affairs Journal', USA)

Afghan Spirits: American Myths ('World Affairs Journal', USA)

But the most unshakable of these myths is about the victory of the Mujahideen over the Soviets. "Explosion? What kind of explosion? ”Asked Afghan Foreign Minister Shah Mohammed Dost, elegantly raising an eyebrow when I interrupted ...
The Battle of Berlin: Ecstasy of Madness ('Time', USA)

The Battle of Berlin: Ecstasy of Madness ('Time', USA)

The article was published on 7 in May of 1945, Berlin, a key city in the pretentious Nazi structure, was the masterpiece of all the senseless, suicidal last posts that the Germans built in ...
When did World War II begin

When did World War II begin

The silhouettes of 15 tanks, 15 ultramodern machines barely loomed in the predawn twilight. There was a night march behind, and ahead ... ahead was the line of defense of the fascists. What awaits the Soviet there ...
Agent "Friend" against Hitler

Agent "Friend" against Hitler

The name of the secret agent Walter Stennes declassified recently. It was he who warned about Japan’s plans not to go to war with the USSR in the fall of 1941, and thus made it possible to withdraw troops from ...
U2 mission failed

U2 mission failed

After the Soviet air defense finally managed to shoot down U-2, the airspace of the USSR ceased to be a “walk-through yard for foreign reconnaissance aircraft” Half a century ago, 1 in May 1960, the Soviet ...
Tank soul

Tank soul

Mismatched words? Thoughtful? Life has proved and continues to prove that it is not. No stretch, no mysticism in the statement that in the body of the T-34 tank was and is to this day ...
Miracles and anomalies of the great war

Miracles and anomalies of the great war

In 1941 – 1945, events followed the least likely option. A more logical result of the Soviet-German confrontation would be the Brest-Litovsk peace-2 in 1942. Was there ...
In the Katyn case found facts in defense of the NKVD

In the Katyn case found facts in defense of the NKVD

The Swede said that during the independent investigation of the Katyn crime, carried out in the framework of the international project “Truth about Katyn”, information was received that in 1939 — 1040 in ...
There are worse things than war

There are worse things than war

Memories of the evacuation hospital nurse "It was terribly sorry for the people." Lyudmila Ivanovna Grigorieva worked during the war as a nurse in Moscow evacuation hospitals. About this time she talks with ...
Duel of two admirals

Duel of two admirals

March 31 On the outer raid of Port Arthur, 1904 exploded and sank the flagship of the Russian Pacific Fleet battleship Petropavlovsk. This sea tragedy became the prologue to ...
From heroes to traitors. Vlasov

From heroes to traitors. Vlasov

Recently, there has been a heated discussion connected with the name of Vlasov and the so-called Russian liberation movement. The idea of ​​glorification of Vlasov, Trukhin, Zhilenkov, Malyshkin, Meandrov, Maltsev ...