Myths of Ukrainian history

Myths of Ukrainian history

14 August 2012, in Kiev, was a presentation of a series called “500 seconds of truth about Ukraine,” in which the authors tried to debunk the current official interpretation ...
In a battle with God's name on the lips ...

In a battle with God's name on the lips ...

Surprisingly, it was not the Soviet party leadership that officially announced the beginning of the Great Patriotic War, but ... the clergyman, none other than the Patriarchal locum tenens of the Russian ...
KK Rokossovsky - Soviet-era Bagration

KK Rokossovsky - Soviet-era Bagration

Mysterious at first glance discrepancies are connected with Rokossovsky's birthplace. In Soviet historiography, the place of Rokossovsky's birth is the city of Velikie Luki and the source of this information ...
Feat border guards in Afghanistan

Feat border guards in Afghanistan

On the southern borders of the large Russian Empire, it has been restless since Central Asia became part of the Russian state. And this was due to the fact that the territories inhabited by wild ...
Submarine, drowned on the shore

Submarine, drowned on the shore

The K-429 submarine was built in the city of Gorky according to the 670 A Scat project. There were 11 submarines of this type. Its length was 104 meters, width almost 10 meters, height - from five ...
Lockheed U-2 vs C-75 "Dvina"

Lockheed U-2 vs C-75 "Dvina"

More than half a century ago, the Central Intelligence Agency of the United States (CIA) began sending high-altitude U-2 strategic reconnaissance aircraft into the USSR airspace, which were specially equipped ...
Causes of the US attack on Vietnam

Causes of the US attack on Vietnam

In the second half of the XIXth century, Vietnam became a colony of France. The growth of national identity after the First World War led to the creation of the Vietnam Independence League or the ...
The best fighter in the world

The best fighter in the world

The experience of fighting in Vietnam showed that the use of fighter planes with limited maneuverability F-4 "Phantom", armed only with the Sparrow and Sidewinder missiles, proved to be untenable. Even...
Military coup in chile

Military coup in chile

In 1970, a presidential election was held in Chile, in which a certain Alvador Allende, a candidate from the Popular Unity bloc, organized by a number of Chilean political parties won ...
Partisan General Sidor Artemyevich Kovpak

Partisan General Sidor Artemyevich Kovpak

Sidor Artemovich Kovpak was born on June 7 of the year 1887 in the Ukrainian village of Kotelva in an ordinary peasant family. He had five brothers and four sisters. Since childhood, he helped his parents about the housework ....
Mossad

Mossad

Neither time nor distance save those who raised their hands on the Jewish state and its citizens. Retribution is inevitable! I must say that when a terrorist act is committed with grave ...
Hitler's plans for the United States

Hitler's plans for the United States

Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Adolf Hitler began their political careers at about the same time, generously promising radical reforms to their voters to bring their countries out of crisis. Hitler ...
Children of the First World War

Children of the First World War

Since time immemorial, children have been actively involved in wars and battles, helping adult men. There are many examples of this in history. In the Middle Ages, young pages and squires looked after their weapons ...
France and England on the eve of World War II

France and England on the eve of World War II

In the second half of 1937, another economic crisis began in the UK. The English economy was in a fever, the working class was on strike, and the capitalists were losing their profits in foreign markets. By...