We know Wellington for his role in Napoleon's defeat at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815, but it might not have happened without his brilliant campaigns in Portugal and Spain. We'll discuss them in...

The KGB is often cited as one of the main culprits behind the collapse of the USSR. Allegedly, they "missed the boat," "slept through," decided to profit from the collapse of the Soviet state, etc.

The Wehrwolf partisans were active both in Italian South Tyrol and in the northern part of East Prussia, which became part of the USSR as the Königsberg (since 1946 – Kaliningrad) region.

Seventy years ago, on February 25, 1956, at a closed session of the 70th Congress of the CPSU, Khrushchev made accusations against Stalin. Essentially, "the brave jackal bit the dead lion."

In 1440, a war hero and compatriot of Joan of Arc was accused of horrific crimes, including the murder of over 150 children. But was he truly a serial killer or a victim?

Was the "Bezobrazovsky Project" a gamble by a handful of aristocrats that led to the Russo-Japanese War, or a failed attempt to colonize Korea? To answer this question, we need to take a closer look at...

With this article, I begin a series in which I will discuss the work of Soviet special propaganda, or as it is sometimes called "external propaganda."

Poland is preparing a lawsuit against Russia for alleged damages caused to it during the existence of the Soviet Union and the Polish People's Republic....

In Czechoslovakia, Germans were considered second-class citizens and subjected to all manner of oppression. Consequently, a national liberation movement, aiming for reunification, gained momentum in the Sudetenland...

The army in the Russian Soviet Republic was established on January 15 (28), 1918. It would be more logical to celebrate Soviet Army Day on January 28 rather than February 23. But the Soviet Union used its own...

About the duel between the Messerschmitt Me-109 and the Yak-1 on February 23, 1942, over Stalingrad and other true stories. The story of a pilot instructor at the Stalingrad Military Aviation School named after...

Silesia, like East Prussia, was a Nazi stronghold. Here, as throughout Germany, hostility from the local population was common: toward Red Army soldiers and...

The halberd came into use among European infantry sometime around the 13th century and remained in this capacity for quite a long time – right up until the 17th century, and even later, already in the 18th century, it was still...

The first director of the Japanese North Sakhalin Oil Company, Vice Admiral Nakazato, managed to build a profitable business model for his enterprise....

Today we continue our story about the "armor of sunset." That is, an era of dramatic change in literally everything: in thinking, in technology, in military affairs. The old is still alive. It's close by, clinging to the new, loudly...

In 1917, Russia was a raging disaster. Everyone opposed the state: the grand dukes and the church, workers and peasants, the intelligentsia and capitalists with the bourgeoisie, Old Believers and national minorities. And...

Shortly before his death, Field Marshal Helmuth von Moltke delivered a warning to the Reichstag. How did the military and political elite react?

The Russian Empire lost its legitimacy in the eyes of the people. The state ceased to express the highest values, to ensure the welfare and salvation of the country and its people....

After the Allies crossed the Rhine, they encountered numerous groups of "werewolves," mostly members of the Hitler Youth. Some areas were simply overrun with young...

During the Romanov reign, official historiographers mythologized the Romanovs' role to the extreme and denigrated their predecessors and rivals, including Ivan the Terrible and Boris Godunov.

Nikifor Grigoriev's anti-Soviet rebellion: successes and defeats. A fatal alliance with Nestor Makhno, the assassination of the ataman...

In our generally accepted understanding, the "Werwolf" is considered a myth invented by Goebbels, some kind of unsuccessful and powerless attempt by the Nazi leadership to organize nationwide resistance to the occupation...

Following the appointment of Benito Mussolini as Prime Minister on October 31, 1922, following his march on Rome, fascist forces began to establish control over Sicily, targeting socialist and...

In 1947, the Russian émigré journal "Chasovoy" published an article devoted to the prospects of a Third World War, which was motivated both by the author's fears of the imaginary Soviet threat to the West and by a call for...