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2025-06-01 06:06

It is no secret that for many Soviet officers it was very prestigious to own a captured pistol. Most often, German short-barreled weapons could be at the disposal of the infantry commanders of the platoon-battalion level and the military personnel of the reconnaissance units. That is, those who

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A rare photo - two identical Russian warships of non-Soviet construction together. But that should stop being rare. Photo: defenceimagery.mod.uk Having decided on the principles that should underlie the sane shipbuilding policy of Russia, you need to subject them at least

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The High-Precision Complexes holding (part of the Rostec state corporation) was formed in 2009. Judging by the brand's popularity in Russia and abroad, the consolidation of the scientific and technical potential of specialized enterprises was successful. Not every integrated structure can boast

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About spilled blood - as a general to a general In February 2021, shortly before the next anniversary of the armed conflict on Damansky Island, a very lengthy and, to put it mildly, somewhat strange material was published in Nezavisimaya Gazeta. It was a big interview with a retired major general

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In the minds of the majority of Europeans, and even the citizens of Russia, the expanses of Southern Siberia, Altai, Mongolia, Northern and Central China have always been an area of settlement for the peoples of the Mongoloid race, but this is far from the case. Already in 3000 BC, Southern Siberia was inhabited by the clans of the Indo-European

On July 20, 1944, the most famous attempt on the life of the Fuhrer took place at Hitler's headquarters in the Görlitz forest near Rastenburg in East Prussia (headquarters "Lair of the Wolf"). From "Wolfsschanze" (German Wolfsschanze) Hitler directed military operations on the Eastern Front from June 1941 to November 1944

On June 13, 1952, a Soviet air defense aircraft MiG-15 shot down a Swedish reconnaissance aircraft "Douglas" DC-3 over neutral waters of the Baltic Sea. It had eight crew members. The Swedes then stated that the plane was performing a training flight. Half a century later, in 2003, the Swedes discovered the hull 55 km east of Gotland

The Third Reich was preparing for an attack on the USSR very thoroughly, by the time the war began, a grouping of the armed forces of the Reich and the armed forces of the satellite countries of Germany, which had no analogues until that time, was concentrated on the borders of the Soviet Union. To defeat Poland, the Reich used 59 divisions

70 years ago, on May 5, 1945, the Prague Uprising began in German-occupied Czechoslovakia. Prague was an important center of communications through which the German command withdrew troops westward to surrender to the Americans. Therefore, the command of Army Group "Center" under the command

My yesterday's friend was literally packed with posts about the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. But I rarely write about the same thing that everyone else is about, I am more interested in facts that few people know about. Therefore, yesterday I did not pay attention to the well-known event. But now it is worth stopping at

On Sunday morning, December 7, 1941, Japan launched a surprise attack on the United States of America, attacking with carrier-based aircraft the main base of the US Pacific Fleet, Pearl Harbor, located on one of the Hawaiian Islands - Oahu

Long before the birth of the first aircraft, frequent fires and accidents in the air with spherical balloons and balloons forced scientists to pay attention to the creation of reliable means capable of saving the lives of aircraft pilots. When planes took to the sky, flying

It's time, it's time for the mockery of the light To drive away the fog of tranquility; What is the life of a poet without suffering? And what is the ocean without a storm? M.Yu. Lermontov The great poet's grandfather was a Scottish nobleman named George Lermontov. He served with the Poles, and in 1613 he was captured by Russian soldiers during the siege of the Belaya fortress. On his

Exactly 50 years ago, on January 14, 1966, the outstanding Soviet scientist, designer and founder of practical cosmonautics Sergei Pavlovich Korolev passed away. This outstanding Russian figure will forever go down in history as the creator of Soviet rocket and space technology, who helped

So, 2011 came into its own, which was declared by the President of Russia Dmitry Medvedev as the Year of Russian Cosmonautics last July. And on January 11, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin made a special trip to the Space Flight Control Center in the town of Korolev, near Moscow, to hold a meeting

130 years ago, on February 9, 1887, the future hero of the Civil War, people's commander Vasily Ivanovich Chapaev was born. Vasily Chapaev fought heroically during the First World War, and during the Civil War he became a legendary figure, self-taught, who was promoted to high command posts at the expense of

What do we know about the life and death of Vasily Ivanovich Chapaev - a man who has truly become an idol for the older generation? What his commissioner Dmitry Furmanov told in his book, and even, perhaps, what everyone saw in the film of the same name. However, both of these sources turned out to be far from the truth

Europe can justly be called a country of castles, and the entire Middle Ages - "the era of castles", because in 500 years more than 15,000 of them were built there, including the Middle East. They guarded the caravan roads in Palestine, were the centers of the Reconquista in Spain, protected the inhabitants of coastal

On November 10, employees of the Russian internal affairs bodies celebrate their professional holiday. This significant date is rooted in the not so long Soviet past. It was in the Soviet Union that the professional holiday of law enforcement officers was established - the Day of the Soviet Militia. According to

From the very first days of the Khmer Rouge in power, relations between Kampuchea and neighboring Vietnam continued to be tense. Even before the Communist Party of Kampuchea came to power in its leadership, there was an incessant struggle between the pro-Vietnamese and anti-Vietnamese factions, which ended in victory

In 1931, Republicans won elections in a number of large cities in Spain, they got into city councils. This was the reason to emigrate to King Alfonso XIII "in order to avoid a fratricidal war."

In the summer of 1978, an employee of the GRU Swiss residency, Vladimir Rezun, asked for asylum in the West. After a while, the defector appeared in England, and a few years later, one after another, sensational books about the Soviet past began to appear in the West, signed "Viktor Suvorov". Underneath this

100 years ago, on January 28, 1916, one of the last great statesmen of the Russian Empire, Illarion Ivanovich Vorontsov-Dashkov, died. The last Russian count Vorontsov-Dashkov had a special destiny even in the famous Vorontsov family. One of the richest people in the Russian Empire

The difficult period for Russia at the end of the 18th and early 19th centuries opened up a galaxy of outstanding commanders and admirals, but there are those whose glory in civil affairs is no less than the success of the military. One of these people was Mikhail Semenovich Vorontsov. He was born on May 30, 1782, his childhood was spent in London

The period between the two world wars was a turning point for European history. It was at this time that right-wing authoritarian regimes, based on the values of nationalism, religion, elitism or class, were established in most of the states of Southern, Central and Eastern Europe. The trend was set