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The allies provided assistance insofar as: on the one hand, measures were taken so that the Bolsheviks did not gain a decisive upper hand, but on the other, so that the whites could not overthrow them. "We do not trade in Russia" the famous words of General Denikin. This is the answer to the question about the reasons for the defeat

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British counterintelligence has opened documents that describe Hitler's plan to seize Great Britain. According to the plan of the Fuehrer, German soldiers were supposed to enter the territory of the kingdom, disguised in the military uniform of the British army. The British state archbishop has declassified protocol

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Let the clothes of a white warrior not always resemble the snow of the mountains - may his memory be holy forever. By the winter of 1920, the liquidation of the White movement seemed to have been completed. Kolchak and Yudenich were defeated, General Miller's group in the North of Russia was destroyed. After masterfully "organized"

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"The most faithful and unerring judgment of the public about the chief of gendarmes will be at the time when he is gone," Benckendorff wrote about himself. But he could hardly even imagine how remote this time would be … The most famous of the gendarmes of Russia was the eldest of the four children of the general from infantry, Riga

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There are many more pages in the history of World War II that, unlike the Battle of Stalingrad or the Allied landings in Normandy, are little known to the general public. These include the joint Anglo-Soviet operation to occupy Iran under the code name "Operation

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There are still many unknown pages in the history of the war, which ended more than 65 years ago. The search engines of the Pskov region found and raised a Soviet reconnaissance aircraft from the swamp, which, apparently, was flying behind enemy lines and was shot down by the Nazis. The name of one of the fallen heroes has already been established. Work

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Having failed in organizing the invasion of England, Hitler decided to "try his luck at war" in the East, deciding thereby to repeat the fatal mistake of Germany during the First World War - to fight on two fronts. He also neglected the behest of his predecessor, the first chancellor of the United Germany

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After a grandiose military victory in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-1871. a strange epidemic broke out in Germany: many soldiers and officers who returned from the war turned out to be sick … with morphinism! Investigation showed that morphine injections during the war were supposed to "help endure the hardships of the campaign."

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This year marks the 90th anniversary of the birth of the outstanding designer-gunsmith, creator of the legendary SVD sniper rifle, Evgeny Fedorovich Dragunov. Evgeny Fedorovich Dragunov was born on February 20, 1920 in the city of Izhevsk. Both the grandfather and the great-grandfather of the future designer were gunsmiths that

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In May 1918, an Italian officer, an apologist for military aviation, J. Douet decided to make his views public in the form of the fantasy novel Winged Victory. In the book, he “supplied” Germany with two thousand “colossal Krupp tanks of 4000 tons (!) Weight, with 6 diesels of 3000 hp each. (including 2 spare), with

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Is there a culture in the world for which a person is ready to die only in order to take with him an insignificant part of the enemy army? With a heart full of patriotism, sit at the helm of a plane, hung with explosives, like a Christmas tree with toys, knowing that there is only enough fuel to fly to

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It is believed that during the Second World War, the territory of the United States proper was not subjected to raids by Japanese aircraft. However, this is not quite true! In the Land of the Rising Sun, there was one pilot who, in retaliation for the massive bombing of Japan by the Americans, bombed directly on

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Fragments from the book Your attention is offered small, but very interesting fragments from the book by Nikolai Starikov “Betrayed Russia. Our allies from Boris Godunov to Nicholas II”. It rather accurately describes the constant meanness and betrayal that accompanied any contact of the Russians with

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For every officer of the Russian army, receiving a nominal weapon as a reward for military valor and courage has always been desirable and honorable. And although it did not provide for exquisite precious jewelry, which was the privilege of the highest military ranks, an officer's sword with a laconic inscription "For courage"

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Continued, beginning here Were the directives of Moscow implemented? The 3rd and 10th armies of the Western Front, located in the Bialystok salient, were famous for the very first large capture of Soviet troops. Here, as part of the 10th Army, the most powerful in terms of the number and quality of tanks was located, well-supplied

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“… It is impossible for a moment to think that the landing of a biplane in a quiet harbor and its takeoff from a large and awkward platform have something to do with really naval aviation. The only possible naval airplane will be launched from the side of the ship by an auxiliary mechanism and land on the water at the side

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A grenade is a type of ammunition designed to destroy enemy personnel and military equipment with fragments and a shock wave generated during an explosion. The use of grenades has a long history. The first progenitors of pomegranates were known even before the invention

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In these August days, the newly minted President of Poland Bronislaw Komorowski, the government and the Seimas congratulate their compatriots on the 90th anniversary of the victory of the army of Józef Piłsudski over the Red Army troops near Warsaw

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For four years Rome endured the wild antics of the emperor Caligula. But there is a limit to everything. And so on January 24, 41 A.D. NS. a group of soldiers of the Praetorian Guard, led by the commander of the palace guards, broke into the palace and killed the cruel emperor. The tortured bodies of Caligula and his household lay on

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1941 is one of the most mysterious moments in the history of our country. Mysterious not only for us, but also for the soldiers who passed through this year. The year is paradoxical. Heroism of the defenders of the Brest Fortress, border guards, pilots who made several air rams on the first day

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Where the popular historian is mistaken and what the popular historian overlooks The name of Alexei Isaev is very well known today to all Russians who are interested in the military chronicle of our country. He is often invited to television and radio studios for discussions, programs dedicated to the events of the 40s of the twentieth century, he often speaks in

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Since ancient times they have been helping people in difficult military service, who are they? Dog You can talk for a long time about the service of dogs, here are just some places where dogs serve: - customs (search for weapons and drugs) - border (search and arrest of violators) - minefields ( mine search) - mountains (search and rescue

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I have heard different stories, but, frankly, I have never heard such a story. The scout Alexey Nikodimovich Tolstov told me about it. Here it is for you word for word: It should be noted that my civilian specialty is a watchman at the city cemetery. Now I see: you are smiling! And this is what I'm talking about

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For the first time, letters from the deputy chief prosecutor who represented Britain at the Nuremberg trials have been made public, The Guardian reports. "Today marks 63 years since the day when David Maxwell Fyfe began interrogating the defendant Hermann Goering," the correspondent notes

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Roald Sagdeev - about how Niels Bohr did not fit into Leninism, why Landau did not honor Lomonosov, about innovations behind barbed wire, the Chinese trousers of Academician Kurchatov, about his relationship with Dwight Eisenhower, as well as about who actually won the world space race. We met with

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According to various sources of that time, from 50 to 60 thousand Crimeans took part in the Tatar invasions of 1643-45 into the territory of the Moscow state. Such serious predatory campaigns deep into Muscovy could be possible only with the complete absence of the likelihood of a retaliatory

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In July 1941, Margaret Bourke-White, a photojournalist for the American magazine "Life", arrived in military Moscow. She worked in unique conditions: with the advent of the war, the filming regime in Moscow became much tougher, for unauthorized filming, as well as for a non-surrendered camera, a tribunal was relied on

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June 13, 1942 would have been another ordinary day of the Second World War in the Black Sea theater of operations, if not for one "but". It was on this summer day that two Soviet torpedo boats made a daring raid into the Yalta port, occupied by the Germans and their Italian allies and turned

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A Rolls-Royce raced along a road through a forest near Meaux, in northern France. It was October 1914, two months after the outbreak of the First World War. Driving was Alastair Cumming, a 24-year-old intelligence officer. Next to him sat his father, Mansfield Cumming, head of the Secret Intelligence Service

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Varyag (until June 19, 1990 - "Riga"), heavy aircraft-carrying cruiser of Project 1143. On December 6, 1985 laid down at the Black Sea shipyard in Nikolaev (serial number 106), launched on November 25, 1988. In 1992, at 67% technical readiness construction has been suspended

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Anyone who is interested in the theme of the First World War or the formation of the Russian army often faced very vague times of the split of the Russian army in the period of 1917. Especially the so-called "death squads or shock troops", which were made up of the most desperate fighters. Creation initiative

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On May 25, 1889, the fifth child was born in the family of Ivan Alekseevich Sikorsky, a professor of psychology at Kiev University, a son who was named Igor. The Sikorsky family was not only famous in Kiev, it was highly respected. The head of a respectable family, who chose one of the

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This year, one of the main themes of the Valdai Club was the reconciliation of views on Russian history of the twentieth century, or rather, its terrible period between the revolution in 1917 and the death of Stalin in 1953. It should nudge the liberals of the Russian establishment who support President Dmitry

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She could not resist the onslaught of the enemy, because she did not meet modern requirements at all While in France fortresses (Verdun and others) stopped the German offensive

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On the pages of our site, a frequent topic is the theme - the Great Patriotic War ….. special disputes flare up around the assessment of the actions of the military leadership of the Soviet army, especially around one of the leaders - Zhukov G.K. …… I am not trying to give an assessment here to the one under Brezhnev and now. become

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The fate of this man is amazing. Handsome, heartthrob and mot, but at the same time the bravest officer, a brilliant scout, the commander of a partisan detachment, and by the end of his life - the Most Serene Prince and the highest dignitary of Russia. Alexander Ivanovich Chernyshev was born on January 10, 1786 (12/30/1785 according to the old style) in

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It's no secret that the weapons of the Second World War were forged by joint efforts. The Soviet Union and Germany helped each other to arm themselves, and the industrialization of the USSR, necessary for a major war, would have been impossible without the help of Western specialists. For these services the USSR paid by selling

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Today, soldiers and officers who have shown themselves in military service are usually celebrated with state awards - titles, orders, medals, a little less often - with personalized weapons. And what encouraged the warriors in Russia several centuries ago? To begin with, it is worth saying about the term itself. Dahl's Explanatory Dictionary of the Word

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A new story about the feat of the "Immortal Garrison" At the end of last September on the NTV channel in the most prime time (at 19.30) was shown more than an hour documentary and publicistic film by Alexei Pivovarov "Brest. Serf heroes”. The demonstration was preceded by a lengthy

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In the young Land of the Soviets, hand-to-hand combat developed in a special way. This direction coincided with the vector of the country's development. The rejected "legacy of autocracy" left the popular fist fighting and the schools of technical training in hand-to-hand and bayonet fighting, which were used in the tsarist police and army. But