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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

V.V. Vereshchagin. "Attack by surprise" After the unsuccessful Crimean War of 1853-1856. the Russian government was forced to temporarily change the vector of its foreign policy from the western (Europe) and southwestern (Balkans) to the eastern and southeastern. The latter seemed to be very promising

November 9, 1939 Dear parents, brothers and sisters, I serve in Poland, it's hard here and I ask you to understand me when I will only write every 2-4 days, today I am writing only to ask you to send me Pervitin. future Nobel laureate Heinrich Böll

The tragic fate of the "Joseph Stalin" turbo electric ship that was blown up and abandoned in a minefield was kept silent for forty-eight years. The few publications usually ended with the message: the ships of the Red Banner Baltic Fleet are leaving the liner with more than 2500 people on it

Pavel Danilin, editor-in-chief of the Kremlin.org portal, board member of the Institute for Development Fund during

On the Internet on several sites there is a material by S.G. Pokrovsky entitled "Treason of 1941", and on August 4, 11 and 18, the newspaper "Krasnaya Zvezda" published an article "The Mysteries of 1941", which is an abbreviated version of the material posted on the Internet … In reality, no

Recently, or rather, on December 10, the VIASAT "History" channel presented those who watched it at that moment (I confess, there was nothing more interesting around) with another historical opus. It was about the liberation of Prague in May 1945. I learned a lot of new and interesting things, I especially liked about “The appropriation by the Red Army

In the highest echelons of power in the USSR there were spies who worked for foreign special services, says a veteran of foreign intelligence, General Yuri Drozdov. According to him, a special list was created, which included members of the leadership of the Soviet Union suspected of illegal connections with foreign intelligence - in

What did the German scientists do in Sukhumi … and not only there Five years ago, a fuss about the alleged leakage of radioactive materials from Abkhazia arose in the Western press. IAEA inspectors even came to the then unrecognized republic, but they found nothing. As it turned out later, the false

This year, the next, already the 305th, anniversary will be celebrated by one of the most famous branches of the Russian Armed Forces - the marines. Epochs changed, the state system in the country changed, the colors of banners, uniforms and weapons changed. One thing remained unchanged - high

The werewolf from the Lubyanka stole more than 10,000 top secret documents. He was taken right at the Lubyanka. Immediately after duty. In front of his astonished colleagues, who had never seen anything like it, for half a century they hadn’t taken security officers at their workplaces. Another portion of "goods" was in his diplomat. He was

When some hypocrites try to judicially prohibit the mention of real historical facts, this speaks of a serious illness of the society in which such actions are considered permissible. There is no excuse for this! … Recently, out of the blue, out of the blue, hysteria suddenly began

England has long dreamed of doing away with Russia. But she always tried to do it with someone else's hands. All the 17th-19th centuries, the British hounded the Turks on us. As a result, Russia fought with Turkey in the Russo-Turkish War of 1676-81, in the Russo-Turkish War of 1686-1700, in the Russo-Turkish War of 1710-13, in

As you know, all current Russian generals and officers once took a course in military history both in schools and academies. However, it seems that not every representative of the highest and senior command personnel pondered the essence of the events of the long and recent past, drawing lessons from the experience of the famous

After Gavrila Princip committed the assassination of the heir to the Austrian throne, Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo on June 28, 1914, the possibility of preventing the war remained, and neither Austria nor Germany considered this war inevitable. Between the day the Archduke was assassinated, and

The story of the elimination of the OUN conductor of the Carpathian Territory Ya.Melnik - "Robert". "N00663 November 6, 1946 Top secret to the Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party (b) U Comrade N.S. Khrushchev Implementing the decision of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the Communist Party (B) -1946, the task of strengthening strikes against the leading levels of the OUN-UPA

A unique person passed away - Honored Test Pilot, Hero of Russia Colonel Sergei Melnikov A unique person passed away - Honored Test Pilot, Hero of Russia Colonel Sergei Melnikov, one of those amazing pilots who lifted into the sky, taught how to land and take off from the deck

While the United States bombed Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945, one million six hundred thousand Soviet soldiers suddenly attacked the Japanese army in the east of the Asian continent. In a matter of days, the million-strong army of Emperor Hirohito was defeated. This was a key moment

On the night of August 3, 1572, the Crimean army of Devlet-Girey, defeated on the Pakhra River near the village of Molody, hastily retreated to the south. Trying to break away from the pursuit, the khan put up several barriers, which were destroyed by the Russians. Only one-sixth of the 120-thousandth

Back in the second half of the 30s, a special toxicological laboratory was created in the NKVD, which, since 1940, was headed by a brigade doctor, and later by a colonel of state security, Professor Grigory Mayranovsky (until 1937 he headed a group on poisons as part of the Institute of Biochemistry of the USSR Academy of Sciences, also

Voluminous volume "Red Army men in Polish captivity in 1919-1922." prepared by the Federal Archival Agency of Russia, the Russian State Military Archive, the State Archive of the Russian Federation, the Russian State Archive of Socio-Economic History and the Polish General