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This tank is the most recognizable symbol of the Great Patriotic War. The best tank of the Second World War in its class. One of the most massive tanks in the world. The machine that forms the basis of the armored armies of the USSR that have passed through all of Europe. What kind of people led the "thirty-fours" into battle? How and where was it taught? What the fight looked like
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Erzats-armored cars In the face of a shortage of armored vehicles, the militia converted personal vehicles into combat vehicles. Basically, the transformation consisted of adding a few sheets of iron to the doors and windows of an ordinary car, as well as installing a light machine gun on the roof. In makeshift armor
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In one of the programs V. Pozner claimed that in 1941 the Russian roads prevented the Germans from taking Moscow. Of course, Posner is not the first to try to belittle the importance of the heroism of Soviet soldiers in defending the capital in this way, exaggerating the role of roads and the climate in general. This trend is clearly
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The appearance of this aircraft is simply mesmerizing, it is not for nothing that it is now often compared to modern American stealth machines. The designers of this aircraft were Siegfried Gunter and Eichner Hochbach. By the way, it is known that after the war, these designers were secretly taken to the United States, and it is quite possible that in
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15 kilometers from Sevastopol, between the Fiolent and Aya capes, there is one of the oldest Crimean settlements - Balaklava. In addition to unique natural monuments, traces of the Genoese fortress Chembalo and ancient temples have been preserved here. But the most striking are the powerful underground structures with a huge
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The most "stupid" armored vehicles supplied by the USSR under Lend-Lease were the American M3 medium tanks, the varieties of which were called "General Lee" and "General Grant" in England. All M3 modifications had such an original appearance that it was difficult to confuse them with German or
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Pavel Danilin, editor-in-chief of the Kremlin.org portal, board member of the Institute for Development Fund during
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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
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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
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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
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In the Red Army, photographing against the background of the enemy's battered equipment was not widespread, simply because of the fewer cameras in the hands of the soldiers and the population. Plus, difficulties with developing and printing. The Germans simply sent films to the rear, to commercial workshops, where they printed pictures. This
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Firstly, some Russian thugs participated in KP-I and are mentioned by non-Russians. Secondly, let's remember what happened in Russia in 1096, on April 13, 1093, the Grand Duke Vsevolod Yaroslavich, the grandson of St. Vladimir, died. His son Vladimir, in order to avoid strife, gave the throne to his
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In the fall of 1979, the Rhodesians turned their attention to Zambia - more precisely, to its economy. Rhodesia was landlocked - but Zambia also did not have it, and therefore the Zambian authorities were forced to send part of their exports through the territory of Rhodesia, ruled by the hated
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This, already relatively late photo, shows, obviously, not the first version of an armored vehicle built by Zamoskvoretsk trams during the battles for power in Moscow during the 1917 Revolution. Unfortunately, no photos of the first model have survived, but this tram also managed to make war
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The history of the Mayan army is just beginning to be investigated by scientists. Better analyzed the period of the New Kingdom (X - mid. XVI centuries), when the institution of the Mayan army received a new impetus for its development. In this era, the rulers of the cities henceforth became military leaders, who acted simultaneously in the role of priests
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The farther from Moscow, the less filthiness in the appearance of Russian cities. Probably, this is not for long, soon the liberal scum will reach the regions, but so far people remember the feats of their ancestors and respect their feat. A vivid example is the city of Volgograd, aka Stalingrad, where the memory of the most fierce battles
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A kind of symbolic act took place, drawing a line under the First World War - the FRG transferred the last tranche of $ 70 million towards repayment of reparations established by the Versailles agreements. And in this regard, it makes sense, as it seems, to remember this war - fair or not, but
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The current Minister of Defense is certainly an ambiguous figure, one can even say that during his leadership A.E. Serdyukov has become an odious figure for his department and the country as a whole. For what merits he suddenly turned from an absolutely civilian into the chief military specialist of the whole
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The plane crash over Palomares (Spain) occurred on January 17, 1966, when an American B-52 strategic bomber with a thermonuclear weapon on board collided with the KC-135 tanker during refueling in flight. The disaster killed 7 people and lost four thermonuclear
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10.21.1805, at Cape Trafalgar, near the city of Cadiz (Spain), during the war of France against the 3rd anti-French coalition. The British fleet of Admiral G. Nelson defeated the Franco-Spanish fleet of Admiral P. Villeneuve, which ensured the dominance of the British fleet on
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Initially, there was no specialized propaganda department in the Finnish army. This kind of work was done by the Ministry of the Press. Only in 1934 was the information center under the Ministry of Defense (Sanomakeskus) established. Between 1937 and 1939 he organized continuing education courses in
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A chest was raised from the bottom of the Baltic Sea, in which the rotors of the Enigma, the legendary encryption machine of the Third Reich, had been lying for almost 70 years. These cogwheels with the alphabet printed on them and electrical contacts in the middle are called the brain of "Enigma". It turned out that time is above
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Once upon a time there was a Russian province. Soldiers marched along it, barracks were built, "offices", there was even its own Admiralty. Thousands of subjects in Orthodox churches offered prayers for the health of Empress Catherine. Everything is as it should be, but this province was in … the Mediterranean
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On March 9, 1934, in the small town of Gzhatsk (now Gagarin), Gzhatsky District (now Gagarinsky) of Smolensk Region, a boy was born into an ordinary working-class family, who was to become the very First. The boy was named Yura. His mother, Anna Timofeevna (1903-1984), and his father, Alexey Ivanovich (1902-1973)