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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

After the death of Yaroslav the Wise, Izyaslav, a weak and greedy prince, received the Kiev table. In conditions of princely strife and external threat (Polovtsy), he and his advisers led the people to an uprising. Not having the strength to suppress the popular uprising, Izyaslav fled to Poland, counting on the support of Prince Boleslav

On June 13, 1858, a Russian-Chinese agreement was signed in the Chinese city of Tianjin, which went down in history as the Tianjin Treaty. The agreement consisted of 12 articles. He confirmed peace and friendship between the two states, and guaranteed the inviolability of property and personal safety

From the first days of the occupation of Belarus, a partisan movement developed in the rear of the enemy, which day by day acquired an ever wider scope. The struggle of the Soviet patriots took on a mass character. By the beginning of 1943, 512 partisan detachments were operating in Belarus, uniting more than 56 thousand

The Battle of Kulikovo (Mamaevo Battle), a battle between the united Russian army led by the Moscow Grand Duke Dmitry Ivanovich and the army of the Temnik of the Golden Horde Mamai, which took place on September 8, 1380 1 on the Kulikovo field (historical area between the Don, Nepryadva and Beautiful Sword rivers on

Why, having withstood the heroic siege of Albazin, Russia in 1689 gave the Amur region to China "Traveler, bring the message to our citizens in Lacodemon that, having fulfilled the covenant of Sparta, here we died with bones." These proud words are carved on a huge stone set on a hill at the entrance to Thermopylae in Greece

The guillotine is a kind of pinnacle of execution that has become one of the infamous symbols of the French Revolution. The mechanism that replaced man in the craft of the executioner - was he just a reflection of soulless terror or a way to show mercy? We understand together with "Popular

Unfortunately, practically nothing is known about the fact that the Russians are at the origins of the "French" Résistance. It was they - the descendants of those who fought near Borodino, Maloyaroslavets and Smolensk, who found themselves in a foreign land after the revolution - who laid the foundation for the Resistance movement and even

“I could. I held out. Destroyed five buried tanks. They could not do anything because they were T-III, T-IV tanks, and I was on a thirty-four, whose frontal armor could not be penetrated by their shells. "

In the first days of that terrible war for our Motherland, not only ground troops suffered losses from the rapidly advancing German tank formations. A tragic carnage unfolded in the sky. The air force of the Western Special Military District was destroyed in large numbers on June 22, 1941

The writer Konstantin Paustovsky, "a Muscovite by birth and a Kievite by heart", has lived in Ukraine for more than two decades in total. Here he took place as a journalist and writer, about which he spoke more than once in his autobiographical prose. In the preface to the Ukrainian edition of The Gold of Trojand (Gold

Wilhelm Keitel was born on September 22, 1882 in the family of hereditary landowners Karl Wilhelm August Louis Keitel and Apollonia Keitel-Vissering. The future Field Marshal spent his childhood on the 650-acre family estate Helmscherode, located in the western part of the Duchy of Braunschweig

This name is known only to historians of the Battle of Uman and search engines enthusiasts. Colonel Danilov Alexander Ivanovich, Chief of Staff of the 24th Mechanized Corps of the Kiev Special Military District (KOVO). He died in the area of the "Green Brama" forest in August 1941, where surrounded by

In the life of this man, a sharp rise in his career is significant - having received the post of commander of an aviation regiment and the rank of lieutenant colonel in February 1941, he became Chief Marshal of Aviation on August 19, 1944, the youngest marshal in the history of the Red Army. Stalin personally knew him and felt for him

“If I am offered to shoot a film in conditions close to combat, - without scenery, with defective film, with an amateur operator, but with the full opportunity to work with the actors you love, work pulse to pulse, create a magnetic field around you, infect them performers, and

The events that will be discussed cover a two-hundred-year segment - X-XI centuries - of the history of France and Russia. Much has been written about this period and especially about the fate of the Russian princess Anna Yaroslavna (1032-1082) in recent decades. But, unfortunately, both journalists and writers approached the topic without

There are castles, about which a lot has been written, and you just have to choose from what has been written that suits you, and retell it in your own words. There are castles about which little has been written, and then you yourself - if you, of course, happened to be next to one of them - convey in words what your

It has already been noted here that life is such a complex thing that absolutely everything in it is interconnected, like threads in a ball. If you pull one, others will follow. So it was with the theme of the Trojan War. Bronze Age, it seems, what is more? But … it becomes interesting, and what was happening at the same time

In most parts of the world, Holocaust denial is a punishable criminal offense. Denial of the Armenian Genocide is a crime in many countries. Denying war crimes during World War II is nowhere criminalized. And it would be useful in full measure to

The invasion of 1521 Moscow knew about the approach of a big war and urgently moved troops to the southern and southeastern border. The regiments in Serpukhov were commanded by princes Dmitry Belsky, Vasily Shuisky and Ivan Morozov-Poplevin. The Kashira army was led by princes Ivan Penkov and Fyodor Lopata Obolensky. Tarusa

"Eternal Peace", signed on October 8, 1508 between the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and Moscow, became just another temporary respite and lasted only two years. The reason for a new war was the information received by Vasily III Ivanovich about the arrest of his sister Alena (Elena) Ivanovna, a widow