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April 23 of this year may well qualify for the title of "Day that gave a wave of hope." For not every day several ships are laid down at the same time. It is clear that Putin's visit to Severnaya Verf gives such weight to the event, and yes, the hope that everything will not stop after

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The anti-ship complex ensures control of territorial waters and protection of coastal areas at a long distance So, for the transformation of Russia into an economically developed and

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“Let people know what happened in this war. The truth. The way it is … "(One of the few survivors of the 131st Maikop brigade) PREPARATION OF THE YOUNG MAN. Eve of the new year, 1995. Columns of Russian troops crossed the Chechen administrative border, and the forward units occupied

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The Makarov pistol is rightfully called "Kalashnikov" among pistols. This automatic 9mm pistol was designed in 1948 by Nikolai Makarov. Due to the simplicity of its device, the reliability of the proposed design and ease of use, the PM remained in production for more than half a century

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By the beginning of the Russian campaign, three volunteer regiments of foreign citizens had been created in the ranks of the SS, and with the outbreak of hostilities, the number of foreign units began to grow steadily. The participation of foreign legions in the war against the USSR was supposed to show, according to Himmler's plan, a pan-European

An important event took place in South Korea related to the military history of Russia. During the November visit to this country of Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, the flag of the legendary Russian cruiser Varyag was handed over to him in a solemn atmosphere. The ceremony took place in Seoul at the Russian embassy. Flag with

You can now get to the islands of the Moonsund archipelago through any of the Baltic republics, since there are no borders between them and a visa to any of the three states allows you to safely move throughout the Baltic. There is a ferry service in the small village of Virtsu on the Estonian coast

His name is probably the most famous Russian name in the whole world: Kalashnikov. Presumably, from 60 to 80 million Kalashnikovs - no one knows the exact number - are in circulation. The man who, by creating the AK-47 assault rifle, practically became synonymous with mass shooting and assassination

For a long time I didn’t understand: why “White Finns”? Due to heavy snowfall? However, there was still a point in the propaganda cliché. In 1917, taking advantage of the general turmoil, the Suomi Senate led the "parade of sovereignties" and thus lit the fuse for the civil war in the Land of a Thousand Lakes. In spite of

On a sunny day on July 3, 1941, a Soviet tank slowly entered the city of Minsk, having been captured by the Nazis for a week. Lonely, already frightened by the Germans, passers-by hurriedly huddled up to the houses - a huge three-turret armored vehicle crawled along the streets of the city, bent with four machine guns

Exactly 50 years ago, in the last week of June 1960, 4 African states were "liberated" at once (Madagascar, Mali, Somalia and Congo). Africa was liberated in bulk. Then the colonial administration left, but the interests of business remained: they could already be defended in a different way. Among

The outbreak of the Cold War and the arms race contributed to the rapid development of rocketry in the USSR. If in the early 50s we still continued to release the R-1 rocket, essentially an improved version of the V-2, then on October 4, 1957, a powerful multistage rocket launched into orbit

In the winter of 1918, he saved the Baltic Fleet. Withdrew from the ports of Revel and Helsingfors 236 warships, including 6 battleships, 5 cruisers and 54 destroyers, from under the nose of the rapidly advancing Germans and took them through the ice to Kronstadt. The "reward" for the feat was unexpected - by personal order

On March 25, 1984, sensational news spread around the world - a Soviet nuclear submarine surfaced in the center of the US Navy's carrier strike group and … … rammed the aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk. The events unfolded as follows. In early March, an aircraft carrier strike group (AUG) of the US Navy entered the Sea of Japan

According to the writings of modern Chechen-Ingush chroniclers, their fellow tribesmen were the most loyal servants of the sovereign-emperor, to the last drop of blood they fought for a white cause and at the same time played a role in the victory of the Bolsheviks. In fact, the main achievements of the predecessors of Dudaev and Basaev, as well as

90 years ago - November 22, 1920 - several thousand Russians were thrown onto the bare coast near the small dilapidated Greek town of Gallipoli. The shipwreck that caused such a large number of Robinsons and Fridays should be called

He is called "the last great Frenchman", in his historical role in the 20th century he is certainly compared with Churchill and Roosevelt. After living a long eighty year life, he really deserves these reviews. Charles de Gaulle became for the citizens of his country a symbol of patriotism, the fight against Nazism

Expert on Korea Konstantin Asmolov: “In the minds of several generations who survived the war, the psychological orientation to confrontation remained.” The largest military incident between the DPRK and the Republic of Korea in the past half century recalled that the war on the Korean Peninsula is still not over. Truce

The destruction of the city of Damur is just one of the links in the genocide of Christians in Lebanon, carried out by local Muslims and Druze, who were later joined by newcomer Palestinian Arabs, and then pro-Iranian Shiites. Citizens of the USSR could not find out about this from the Soviet press, their country supported

70 years ago, the Allied Expeditionary Force was ready to land in the Russian North. If the Western powers had been able to fulfill their plans, the Second World War would have developed differently. The Anglo-French invasion of the Soviet Arctic was prevented only by the fact that Finland, under the pretext of

As before, disputes over the question of why the colossal military catastrophe that happened to our country on June 22, 1941 and brought innumerable calamities to our people became possible. It would seem that the Soviet leadership before the war did everything possible and even impossible to

“With the help of skillful propaganda, one can imagine even the most miserable life as paradise and, conversely, paint the most prosperous life with the blackest colors” - this is how Hitler wrote in his work “Mein Kampf.” Propaganda was the basis of the existence of the Third Reich, precisely thanks to skillful and skillful propaganda

Before my second trip to Afghanistan in 1986, "grandfather" Starinov * * Professor Ilya Grigorievich Starinov - born in 1900, veteran of four wars, legendary saboteur, "grandfather" of Soviet special forces showed me a Yugoslav magazine with an article about the underground war in Vietnam. Immediately flashed

Today on the BBC Russian Service website there was a note with the recollections of the British singer James Blunt, who served in Kosovo in 1999. He was in charge of the British military unit in Pristina at the moment when the Pristina airfield was suddenly captured by a battalion of our

This story was written from the words of a man who was in Angola and experienced it all. That is to say, the look of a soldier from the trench. He told this in 2005, 30 years later. The alarm, the "Balancer" signal, sounded at 5 am. Hearing this prearranged signal, my heart skipped a beat, is it really a war! "Balancer" sounded only on