General A. A. Vlasov and modern Vlasovites
Attempts at decommunization and de-Sovietization in modern Russia. Ideological inspirers of modern Vlasovites. Vlasov's life before he surrendered....
Novo-Zakamsk defensive line: there is no room for fantastic inventions!
A significant part of the history of our state should be devoted to the construction of defensive lines in the southeast. In fact, it was almost continuous, required a lot of forces and resources and...
Uzbek gas, Turkmen gas, Afghan gas
The documents of the USSR Ministry of Gas Industry revealed a lot of interesting things, but they could not put an end to the question of whether Afghan gas was the background of the Afghan war or not....
Expedition to the Ancestors. When the Monuments Tell...
Today we will talk about the burials that our land owes to the Greek colonists who moved to the city-colonies of the Northern Black Sea region and found their second homeland here....
Bloody Battle on the Shahe River
120 years since the 12-day bloody battle on the Shahe River. Neither the offensive of the Russian army under the command of Kuropatkin, nor the counteroffensive of the Japanese army of Oyama led to success...
Mstislav the Great. Worthy son of Vladimir Monomakh
Mstislav Vladimirovich, son of Vladimir Monomakh and Gytha of Wessex, the last great prince of the united Old Russian state....
Russian Don Quixote
270 years ago, the Russian Tsar Pavel I Petrovich was born. "Russian Don Quixote" - that's how Napoleon wrote about him. One of the most slandered Russian rulers...
An Unknown War of the 17th Century. The Second Siege of Casale
The final part of the cycle about the War of the Mantuan Succession...
Hunger with food available
The calculation of the grain and forage balance of the USSR during the years of collectivization shows a surprising picture: it turns out that there was no physical shortage of bread in the country...
Migrants and Migrations. Pontic Colonization of the Greeks
Before the Greeks arrived, the northern shores of the Black Sea were inhabited by the Taurian and Scythian tribes, with whom the colonists established very complex ties of both a cultural and military nature. To show...
1943. Battle of Corsica. Assault Brigade "Reichsführer-SS" in battles against the French and Italians
Corsica, which was part of "Vichy France" after the capitulation of France in 1940, was not occupied by the Axis powers. It was only after the Western Allies landed in...
Weapons of Medieval Fantasy
Human thought always, one way or another, outstrips the real possibilities of science and technology of its time. In fact, it is precisely on this feature of our thinking that all scientific and non-scientific...
Migrants and migrations. When the goal of migration is self-improvement
The Pueblo were avid migrants and for many centuries did nothing but move from place to place. The purpose of such migration was... the desire for self-improvement! Such a goal looks...
How the damage from the occupation was calculated
The acts of damage incurred from the occupation, compiled for the departments of the OSMC No. 10 "Koksokhimmontazh" reveal both the peculiarities of the calculation of damage and the oddities of the evacuation...
The Unknown War of the 17th Century: Empires Strike Back
The King of Spain, Don Felipe IV, did not accept the defeat and at a meeting of the State Council declared that his goal was to expel all the French from Italy....
Darius III. The Fate and Death of the Last Achaemenid on the Persian Throne
Battles between the troops of Darius III and the army of Alexander the Great, the deposition and murder of the last Persian king...
"Our situation". Vast distances, arctic zone and long winter
Russia is not competitive on the world market due to its geography and climate. The only path to development is socialism in a single country and its own global development project...
Logistics vs. American Cavalry
Sometimes military decisions are influenced by factors other than purely military ones, which is understandable and logical. Logistics or weather conditions, for example, can not only change the course of a particular battle, but also...
Roads of the Gods. Official Science Doesn't Want to See Traces of Ancient Civilization
The current history of humanity was written in the interests of the Western masters. There are many traces of an ancient advanced civilization of "gods" on the planet. They are in America, Siberia and the Arctic...
The Bavarian army is the eternal second
The stereotypical image of a German is short pants with suspenders, a hat with a plume, a strange cry, which they call yodel... And beer, lots of beer! Meanwhile, all these are signs not of a German in general, but of...
The Bulgarian people greeted the Red Army with bread and salt
80 years ago the Red Army liberated Bulgaria. The hopes of England and the USA to occupy Bulgaria with the help of the Turkish army failed...
Ivan the Terrible - a treaty with the Lord
In 1581, Ivan the Terrible's son and heir, Tsarevich Ivan, died under unclear circumstances. The sovereign was very worried about his fate in the other world, taking steps that were possibly incompatible with...
A brick on socialism
The brick industry of the USSR before the war also suffered the consequences of sophisticated sabotage and was short of billions of bricks...
Hanseatic Cog. The story continues
In the mid-to-late 15th century, illustrators began to pay attention not only to the accuracy of the depiction of the clothing and weapons of their characters, but also to the depiction of the same ships, as a result of which they began to feature...