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Russia has only two allies: the army and the navy. All the rest will attack us at the first opportunity. Emperor Alexander III It is terrible to look at the agony of the ship. He is like a wounded person, bends in agony, beats in convulsions, breaks and drowns, while making terrible uterine sounds
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The Amazing Story of an Outstanding Illegal Soviet Intelligence Service The names of the “great illegal immigrants” of the 1930s are inscribed in a special font in the calendar of Soviet intelligence, and among them the name of Dmitry Bystroletov shines with a cheerful splendor. He himself contributed a lot to this. The man is sick and sardonic, he found himself on a slope
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The Hitlerite secret police - the Gestapo - were looking for this man in vain until the final defeat of the Nazi Reich. In Austria and Germany, he was known by the name of Alexander Erdberg, but in fact his name was Alexander Korotkov. His whole life and all his thoughts were devoted to serving the Motherland
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For 30 years, professional historians obediently repeated: "20 million." It sounded with confidence, "The Volga flows into the Caspian Sea," but they knew that Khrushchev took the numbers from the sky. Are they not cheating now? And they did not believe it. Other figures appeared in the newspapers: 40 million, 50 million and even 100 million! Later appeared
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The tribes of the Slavs (in other sources - the Rus) together with the Avars in 626 undertook a grandiose campaign against Constantinople in single-tree boats. On June 29, 626, the Avar Kagan approached the walls of Constantinople with an army. According to the Easter Chronicle, this was the first Avar detachment, consisting of 30 thousand soldiers
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65 years ago, on July 24, 1945, during the Potsdam Conference, US President Harry Truman and Soviet leader Joseph Stalin had a brief conversation that cost the lives of 400,000 Japanese. However, this is perhaps only one of the legends that have bred in abundance around the atomic
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August 2 marks 80 years of the Airborne Forces. On the eve of the holiday, Ogonyok correspondents met with the legendary paratrooper, Hero of Russia, lieutenant colonel of the special forces of the Airborne Forces Anatoly Lebed. We left his words unchanged in order to give readers an idea of what today's thinks and how
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Continuation, beginning here: Part 1However, the new authorities, and after them the Bolsheviks, renamed all the courts, one way or another connected with the "accursed tsarism". And these new names did not bring happiness to the ships. There was no hero on the Black Sea equal to Namorsi Shchastny, so the Black Sea Fleet suffered from
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The famous military and statesman of the first quarter of the 19th century, major general, hero-partisan of the Patriotic War of 1812, talented military writer and poet, founder of hussar lyrics Denis Vasilyevich Davydov was born 225 years ago - on July 27, 1784. Passionate, boiling nature
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The 90th birthday of Nikolai Vladimirovich Strutinsky was not celebrated in Ukraine in any way. In Russia, it seems, too. They did not remember him on the day of his death - July 11 … Time to correct this "omission". To say that Strutinsky is a legendary man, and without any exaggeration, is to repeat what was said about him and ten or more
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The creation of the world's first underwater minelayer "Crab" is one of the remarkable pages in the history of Russian military shipbuilding. The technical backwardness of tsarist Russia and a completely new type of submarine, which was the "Crab", led to the fact that this minelayer entered
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In the 50s and 60s, the British army tried to increase the effectiveness of soldiers in battle by experimenting with drugs? Including with many well-known LSD. Here is a short description of one of the military exercises. I don't know if this was the first, but it was definitely the last time the British army dealt with LSD. Just before
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Recently, Nick Belantoni's film "Hitler's Escape" appeared on the screens of the United States. According to the author of the film, the Fuhrer of the Third Reich managed to secretly escape from Berlin from the Soviet Army at the end of April 1945, hide in an unknown direction and escape punishment for serious crimes
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Mikhail Kalashnikov showed the gift of an inventor and designer even before the war. Being drafted into the Red Army in 1938, where he received the specialty of a driver mechanic, he developed an adaptation to the TT pistol for more effective firing through the slots in the tank turret, cannon shot counters and
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Even before the revolution, when the aircraft industry was just beginning to develop, Grand Duke Alexander Mikhailovich spoke about domestic aircraft builders-enthusiasts: “Most of all, one should not get carried away with the idea of creating an air fleet according to the plans of our inventors. The Air Fleet Committee
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During the war, there was an intensive development of rapid-fire aircraft machine guns, designed to replace the reliable ShKASS. One of the options that passed the test at the test site was a machine gun designed by Sokolov (it seems he never went into series - with its rate of fire, which made it possible to cut off the pillars of one
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In the 19th century, epigrams were written on everyone: on each other, on kings, ballerinas and archimandrites. But by some irony of fate, Pushkin's biting quatrain - Alexander Sergeevich himself was later not happy that he wrote it - played a cruel joke with a man who was less worthy of it than others. In the spring
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The Great Patriotic War. The IL-2 flight took off on a mission. Above the front line, they come under heavy anti-aircraft fire, one plane is damaged and forced to turn back. Two bombs are suspended on it, and landing with them is strictly prohibited, but so that civilians or their troops do not suffer, the pilot
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(About one of the chapters of V. Suvorov's book "The Liberator") It has long been known that Mr. VB Rezun, who works in the field of anti-Russian propaganda, is a great master of cooking a poisonous soup of truth, half-truths and outright lies under the guise of historical research. In this brain-culinary
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Returning from Portugal to England after 13 years of emigration, Karl Stewart, son of the executed King Charles I, brought with him his wife Catherine from the Portuguese royal dynasty of Braganza and a snuffbox with a mysterious black dried herb. He did not fill a pipe with it, did not stuff it into a nostril, did not chew, but poured
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In August 1936, Germany sent to aid the fascists in Spain, where the civil war began, the so-called Condor Legion, armed with Heinkels. By November, it became obvious that the He-51 was outperforming the new Soviet I-15 and I-16 fighters in all respects. The situation became so complicated that
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The huge Mongol Empire created by the great Genghis Khan surpassed the space of the empires of Napoleon Bonaparte and Alexander the Great many times. And she fell not under the blows of external enemies, but only as a result of internal disintegration … Having united the disparate Mongol tribes in the XIII century, Genghis Khan
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Kuban scouts in the Caucasian army in the Russo-Turkish war of 1877-1878 Cossacks - participants in the Russo-Turkish war of 1877-1878 BALKAN KNOT More than 130 years ago, the battles of the Russo-Turkish war of 1877-1878, which arose as a result of the rise of the liberation movement on
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40 years ago, on the night of August 1-2, 1959, in the city of Temirtau, Karaganda region, unrest began among the Komsomol members - the builders of the Karaganda metallurgical plant - the famous Kazakhstan Magnitka. The unrest continued for three days. Troops from Moscow were involved in suppressing them
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In those years, Chimkent was rightfully called the "state of Texas of the Soviet Union" - lawlessness and arbitrariness on the part of local authorities and law enforcement agencies. There was a terrible criminal situation in the city: a huge number of "chemists" and "household workers", most of the city did not live on
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The heavy five-turret tank AT Independent was the symbol of British tank building in the years between the two world wars. This vehicle became the object of close attention of specialists from many countries and, no doubt, served as a prototype for the creation of the Soviet T-35 heavy tank and the German Nb.Fz
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Meanwhile, in southern Germany, the 3rd and 7th American and 1st French armies were stubbornly advancing east towards the so-called "National Citadel" … The American 3rd Army entered the territory of Czechoslovakia and by May 6 captured the cities of Pilsen and Carlsbad and continued the offensive in
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In the first three years of the Civil War, Vasily Chapaev did so much that in the twenties he was numbered among the saints by Stalin himself. He died in 1919, and in 1934 a legendary film was shot from the diaries of Chapaev's colleague Dmitry Furmanov. Immediately after its release on the screens of the NKVD
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Gleb Yurievich Maksimov is a talented and most underestimated space designer in the USSR. It was he who created the first artificial Earth satellite and many other spacecraft, including the top-secret interplanetary spacecraft, which was supposed to launch to Mars on June 8, 1971
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Tsarist general Smyslovsky, who fought the Stalinist regime in the ranks of the German army, did at least one good deed - he saved the lives of 500 Russian soldiers. days before
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The formation of Soviet plans for the exploration of the moon began with a letter sent by Sergei Pavlovich Korolev and Mstislav Vsevolodovich Keldysh to the Central Committee of the CPSU on January 28, 1958. It formulated two main points of the lunar program: firstly, hitting the visible surface of the Moon, and, secondly, flying
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In the early morning of December 7, the first wave of aircraft - 183 aircraft, headed by an experienced pilot, commander of the Akagi air group Mitsuo Fuchida, took off from the ships of the formation, located 200 miles north of Oahu, roaring deafeningly into the air. When his planes hit their target, Fuchida radioed
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Evgeny Stakhov (Stakhiv) is one of the few activists (then leaders) of the Bandera movement who have survived to this day. He gave this interview on October 1, 2008 to the Internet portal Zaxid.net. Translation - Oleg Shirokiy. *** - Mr. Stakhov, you fought for an independent Ukraine. Now we have exactly
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In the fourth century BC: Rome was almost completely sacked by the Gauls. This seriously undermined his authority in central Italy. But this event entailed an almost complete reorganization of the army. It is believed that the hero of the reforms was Flavius Camillus, but many historians agree
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The aircraft carriers, which form the backbone of the United States naval forces, are sent to those regions where it is necessary to either represent or defend the interests of the country. The Red Sea, the Persian Gulf, the coast of Yugoslavia, and the African coast can be such "hot" spots. One of
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It is well known that the Chechens also took a direct part in the bloodiest battle of mankind, making a worthy contribution to the treasury of the overall victory of the Soviet people over the brown plague
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Manuscripts do not burn On May 9, 1945, the Third Reich ceased to exist on our blue planet. He has gone into the past - as it seemed to the majority of the population of this very planet, forever. But after him a very rich inheritance remained, including one that few people suspect
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The statements made by General Groves after the war … were probably intended to divert attention from the German isotope separation program. The idea was that if the existence of the German uranium enrichment program was hidden, then one could write a story that all efforts to
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Colonel E.A. Nikolsky - went through a large military school. A cadet, a young officer in the imperial army. Then in 1905-1908. in charge of the "Special Office Work" at the Military Statistics Department of the General Staff and was responsible for working with military agents. Prepared a project to create in Russia … intelligence
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The weather in the Swiss mountains is unpredictable. Either a thick fog hides the outlines of a majestic landscape, then a fine rain pours incessantly. But if for a moment the natural curtain recedes, a grandiose spectacle opens up. Right in the sheer cliff facing the Teufelsbrücke, he