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How the Red Army Air Force Was Beheaded The war for the Soviet Air Force began much earlier than that Sunday morning, when German bombs fell on the "peacefully sleeping airfields." The heaviest losses, and in the most important, command link, Soviet aviation suffered already in May-June 1941. And by
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On the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the famous evacuation of British troops near Dunkirk “Britain has no permanent enemies and permanent friends, it has only constant interests” - this phrase, unknown by whom and when, became, however, winged. One of the striking examples of such a policy is Operation Dynamo (evacuation
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War becomes a cruel examiner for the armies' weapons system. It happens that those types of weapons and military equipment, which were not promised much success, pass the exam better. Of course, funds and efforts were spent on them, but much more attention was paid to others. And wrong. Japanese aircraft carrier
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Monument to the Participants of the Defense of Dixon Island The theme of the Nazi military expeditions to the Arctic has become one of the most mythologized in the history of World War II - from the "Nord" base to everything connected with the "Annenerbe". In fact, everything was, to put it mildly, differently
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In the 1930s, a grandiose construction was launched in the Far East … During the Second World War, the Atlantic Wall became widely known. Fortifications built by Hitler's order stretched along the entire western coast of Europe, from Denmark to the border with Spain. About it
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US Army soldiers in Korea. 1950 The second half of the twentieth century began anxiously. The Cold War was raging in the world. Former allies in the anti-Hitler coalition stood on opposite sides of the barricades, and the confrontation between them was growing. The arms race between the US-led NATO bloc
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The storming of Berlin April 21 - May 2, 1945 is one of the unique events in the world history of wars. It was a battle for a very large city with a large number of solid stone buildings.Even the struggle for Stalingrad is inferior to the battles for Berlin in terms of the main quantitative and qualitative indicators:
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Louis de Wal was able to convince MI5 intelligence that the Fuehrer's tactical decisions were heavily influenced by his horoscope. He suggested studying what the stars are preparing for Hitler, as well as for other major military figures, for example, the English general Bernard Montgomery and the Japanese emperor Hirohito with
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Today marks the 90th anniversary of the birth of the legendary pilot Ivan Kozhedub The glorified pilot did not write down an enemy vehicle if he did not see how it fell to the ground World War II ace
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The shots of the shamefully abandoned and burnt-out American helicopters at one time went around the world. Photo from Soldier of Fortune magazine On the anniversary of the failure of the CIA operation in Iran Thirty years ago, in May 1980, then US President and Supreme Commander Jimmy Carter declared mourning in the country for eight
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War of Annihilation In December 1940, Adolf Hitler began planning an attack on the then allied communist Soviet Union with Nazi Germany. The operation was codenamed "Barbarossa". During the preparation, Hitler made it clear that this was not about
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The European powers feverishly prepared for a major conflict for several decades before 1914. Nevertheless, it can be argued that no one expected or wanted such a war. The general staffs expressed confidence: it will last a year, maximum one and a half. But a common misconception
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Soon we will be led to believe that in 1941-1945, Stalin, along with Hitler, fought against the West A cynical but basically true saying says that there are two main subjects in high school - history and basic military training. The second teaches how to shoot, and the first teaches at whom. It is history, and
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During the occupation of German territory, Soviet troops committed mass rapes of local women. “The Soviet soldiers viewed the rape, which was often carried out in front of the woman's husband and family members, as a suitable way to humiliate the German nation, which considered the Slavs an inferior race
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At the Eurosatory-2010 arms show in Paris, Russia not only demonstrates its military equipment, but also for the first time looks closely at the best Western models. And not out of pure curiosity, but for the purpose of purchasing them. The armed forces of our country should have only the best equipment. And if there is no possibility
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Today we will try to take an objective look at the myth of the mediocrity of the military leadership of the Red Army - the Soviet Army, introduced into the public consciousness during the years of perestroika. Hundreds of times we have heard that the cannibalistic Stalinist regime bombarded the valiant German troops with crowds of unarmed Soviet soldiers
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In the spring of 1945, when the enemies penetrated deeper and deeper into the empire, German women and girls took up arms to defend their homeland. We will share one such particularly successful episode. Between 8 and 12 March 1945 near Greifenhagen in Pomerania, heavy fighting raged with the addicted Bolsheviks. Non-commissioned officer
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The sad date of June 22 makes us remember how many questions are still raised by the history of the beginning of the Great Patriotic War. Why did the Kremlin ignore intelligence reports about Hitler's preparations for an attack on the USSR? How did the experience of the Civil War help the Soviet military leaders? Than in
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On August 23, 1939, in Moscow, USSR People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs Vyacheslav Molotov and German Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop signed a non-aggression pact between the two countries, which immortalized their names
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The cruel truth about the beginning of the war told in the letters of a soldier of the Great Patriotic War 65 years have passed since the end of the Great Patriotic War, the ashes of those who fell in battles have long since decayed, but the soldier's triangle letters remained incorrupt - small yellowed sheets of paper covered with simple or
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These words fully apply to many battles of the First World War. For some reason, the modern Russian government, which is so concerned about patriotic education, chose not to notice the 95th anniversary of its beginning. This tragic date at the state level is trying not to notice: 95 years ago, 1
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The most famous Hitlerite military leader in Russia is still Field Marshal Friedrich Paulus. First, because he brought his 6th army to the Volga. Secondly, because there, in the Stalingrad "cauldron", he left her. Alexander ZVYAGINTSEV tells about the strange fate of this man
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On the eve of the next anniversary of the beginning of the Great Patriotic War, liberal historians and journalists crawled out like devils from a snuffbox on television screens and newspaper pages. Still: a good occasion presented itself to remind the Russian man in the street about who is to blame for all mortal sins. Of course, we are talking
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18-08-1995. If we had lost this battle, the world would have looked different - without Poland. Head of State and Commander-in-Chief Józef Pilsudski did not intend to wait. He dreamed of the resurrection of the old Commonwealth, of the federation of the peoples of the Polish, Lithuanian, Ukrainian and Belarusian (it should be noted that
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October 16, 1946 - the day when the ashes of eleven main war criminals - the Nazis, sentenced to death by the Nuremberg International Military Tribunal - were poured into one of the tributaries of the Isara River (near Munich). The winners decided that absolutely nothing should be left of the dust
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Do you remember, brother, that time is long ago: the pines and the sea, the sunset of the sun; How did we see the ships sailing, how did we wait for them back? How we wanted to be captains and go around the world in the spring! Well, of course, we became masters - each in his own craft … The usual story of those years: after graduating only 6
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Dozens of large enterprises were evacuated from the west of the country to the city of Kuibyshev (now Samara) from the west of the country, which, just two or three months after the move, already issued products for the front, worked at aviation factories in several shifts. In the vicinity of the train station
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60 years ago - on August 29, 1949 - the first Soviet atomic bomb RDS-1 with a declared yield of 20 kt was successfully tested at the Semipalatinsk test site. Thanks to this event, strategic military parity between the USSR and the United States was allegedly established in the world. And a hypothetical war
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Disputes and discussions around the event that happened 69 years ago (the beginning of the Great Patriotic War) not only do not subside, but flare up with renewed vigor. Propaganda myths that were supposed to convince the citizens of Russia that the Stalinist USSR was no better than Hitler's Germany, that
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The history of the unit, all of whose soldiers were awarded the Orders of Glory At the end of 1944, the immediate task of the Red Army was to reach the borders of Germany and strike at Berlin. For this, favorable conditions were created, in particular, bridgeheads were captured on the western bank of the Vistula. True, it was necessary
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But volcanoes in those days were silent, and the United States did not conduct nuclear tests. An airplane took off from the English airfield and took air samples in the upper atmosphere. It turned out: on August 29, a Soviet plutonium bomb was detonated on the territory of Northern Kazakhstan. The world did not yet know that she was
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The problem of the origins of the Crimean War has long been in the field of view of historians who gravitate towards the study of failed, but possible scenarios of the past. The debate about whether there was an alternative to it is as old as the war itself, and there is no end in sight to the debate: this is too exciting a topic. Considering
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Why the military-political leadership of Germany did not order the use of chemical weapons During the hostilities during the First World War, various toxic substances were widely used. Subsequently, in the 20-30s of the twentieth century, the issues of the use of chemical weapons and means
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In the construction of Russian warships, a fire hazardous alloy is still used, which was going to be banned two decades ago after the tragic death of the small missile ship "Monsoon". 39 sailors were burned alive in a fire that resulted from an accidental hit of a missile in
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Main road to BTB. Directly - repository No. 5, on the right - building No. 1 Facts are forgotten. The liquidators are dying. Before the radioactive "debris" in
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The Living and the Dead of the First Chechen Chechen War began for me with the senior warrant officer Nikolai Potekhin - this was the first Russian serviceman with whom I met in the war. I had a chance to talk to him at the very end of November 1994, after the failed storming of Grozny by "unknowns"
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Someone at the front was driven to attack the enemy at the point of their own machine guns One of the most terrible myths of World War II is associated with the existence of detachments in the Red Army. Often in modern TV series about the war, you can see scenes with gloomy personalities in blue caps of the NKVD troops
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Under him, the air defense troops were at the zenith of their power. June 27 marked the 100th anniversary of the birth of the outstanding military leader of our country Pavel Fedorovich Batitsky. In the ranks of the Armed Forces of the USSR, he went from a cadet in a cavalry school to Marshal of the Soviet Union
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Least of all Stalin and Beria The question in the title of this article has been debated for decades, but to this day there is no honest, accurate and complete answer to it. However, for many people it is obvious: of course, the main responsibility for the tragic beginning of the Great Patriotic War
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In September 1783, a balloon designed by the Montgolfier brothers lifted three passengers into the sky of Versailles: a sheep, a goose and a rooster. Two months later, people made their first hot air balloon flight. And soon balloons began to be used for military purposes