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In 1935, in the USSR, the "Regulations on the passage of service by the command and command personnel of the Red Army" introduced personal military ranks. Five commanders of the Red Army became Marshals, among them S.M.Budyonny (1883-1973). In the young Soviet state, he was a legendary man, the "father" of

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The article uses the following abbreviations: VO - military district, GDD - mountain rifle division, General Staff - General Staff, SC - Red Army, MK - mechanized corps, MD - motorized division, RGK - reserve of the main command, RM - reconnaissance materials, sk (sd) - rifle corps

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The article uses the following abbreviations: A - army, VO - military district, General Staff - General Staff, railway - railway, SC - Red Army, Mongolian People's Republic - Mongolian People's Republic, MD (MP) - motorized division (regiment), RGK - reserve of the main command, RM - reconnaissance materials, RU

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Whether you like it or not, a generational change is inevitable. That is the end of the earthly journey of the Great Weapon Master (only this way - every word with a capital letter) Mikhail Timofeevich Kalashnikov. The whole world remembers him as the creator of the machine and rightfully gives praise. I want to tell him a "separate" THANKS

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Once, looking at the photos in the "Military Album", I was surprised to see photographs dedicated to the capture of Mtsensk by the Germans in the fall of 1941. Why with surprise? Yes, because on it German soldiers were photographed against the background of not only our wrecked tanks, but also the "Katyusha" !!! The fact is that since childhood

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What we see today in Ukraine may well be considered the result of long-term, purposeful and well-planned work. Work on the introduction, since the mid-1950s, and even earlier, of nationalists in the highest, middle and lower leadership levels, first in Western Ukraine, and then throughout

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Believe it or not, yesterday (December 7th) was the Day of the Bear … There is such a day. First Sunday in December. Did you think not? It was noticed: at the time this bear climbs into the den, and on Spiridon - on the solstice on December 25 - it turns from side to side, but on the Annunciation it gets out of the den

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The most popular song of the twentieth century, which is considered to be almost the anthem of the criminal world, is actually nothing more than a song about the secret operation of the Cheka. Marusya Klimova is a real character who has worked all her life in a secret unit of the GubChK, GPU, and then in the NKVD. The lyrics are encrypted

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This article is dedicated to the fate of naval officer Anatoly Vasilyevich Lenin. From his relatives, the leader of the Bolsheviks, Vladimir Ulyanov, received his pseudonym Lenin, under which he went down in history

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As a Soviet navigator, he did not die in the Alaska mountains. A documentary story by Oleg Chechin The American film "The Survivor", which today is nominated for an Oscar and is shown in our cinemas, is perfectly filmed and well thought out. But what is fiction in comparison with the real story about which

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By their design, Roman warships do not fundamentally differ from the ships of Greece and the Hellenistic states of Asia Minor. Among the Romans, we find the same dozens and hundreds of oars as the main propulsion device of the ship, the same multi-tiered layout, approximately the same aesthetics for

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Professor Hugo Junkers … Hugo Junkers was very surprised when the secretary reported that the Russian mister Dolukhanov was waiting for him in the waiting room. “What does this gentleman want… Do-lu-ha-nof?” “He declares that he can sell your planes in Russia “Well, let him come in,” Hugo surrendered

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It was almost 40 years ago, I remember exactly that this story happened in the late 80s of the last century. The fact that by a miracle the surviving machine gunner of the 9th outpost of the 17th Red Banner Brest border detachment Grigory Terentyevich Eremeev lives in the south of Kyrgyzstan, I learned from the legendary book of Sergei Smirnov

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This is not quite an ordinary essay from the series "They were the first to take battle" about the border guard Pavel Vasilievich Blagirev. It was based on the essay of an eighth grade student Yegor Berezitsky from the Prigorodnenskaya secondary school in the Shchigrovsky district of the Kursk region. It was Egor who wrote his essay on behalf of our hero

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According to the Dutch account, on May 15, 1945, the last group of cargoes from the Netherlands East Indies (since 1949 - Indonesia) arrived in Vladivostok (in the photo - the port during the war) as part of lend-lease goods from the USA, Canada and Australia. The received consignment of goods contained tin ore, cobalt

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The historical significance of the October Revolution (until 1927, even the Bolsheviks called it a coup) can hardly be underestimated, it marked the beginning of the "red project", which made it possible to implement a completely different model of social structure and build a society of social justice

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Almost simultaneously, in May 1942, two catastrophes occurred on the Soviet-German front: the defeat of the Soviet armies near Kharkov (Barvenkovsky cauldron) and the defeat of the Crimean Front. If the first is described in detail, then they try not to remember the second, as if there is nothing terrible and not

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The heroic defense of Sevastopol for 250 days, from October 30, 1941 to July 2, 1942, is well known and described in detail. At the same time, the three tragic last days of defense are bypassed, when the command cowardly fled from the besieged city and threw tens of thousands at the mercy of the Germans

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In modern sources, the counterattack of five mechanized corps of the Red Army in the first week of the war in the Dubno-Lutsk-Brody area is often called the largest tank battle of the Second World War, surpassing the tank battle at Prokhorovka. In fact, this is not entirely true, near Prokhorovka also on July 12, 1943

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Having entered the world war, Russia was in a state of deep systemic political and social crisis, it was tormented by internal contradictions, long-overdue reforms were not carried out, the created parliament did not decide much, the tsar and the government did not take the necessary measures to reform

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Tank battles in July 1943 on the Kursk Bulge are associated by many mainly with the counterstrike of Rotmistrov's 5th Guards Tank Army on July 12 near Prokhorovka, ignoring the facts of stubborn tank battles of Katukov's 1st Tank Army, which were much more important in defensive battles 5-12 July on

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In the Soviet Union, before the war, social classes were subjected to deportation, the "class alien population" was evicted, and during the war, the enemy peoples, accused by Stalin of total betrayal, were deported. In total, 12 peoples were deported who lost their native land, and

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The well-known and widespread concept of "vodka" raises few questions from anyone (why it is called that and when it appeared). We do not think about the origin of the words "vodka", "moonshine", "sivukha", "fume", why moonshine is not boiled, but "driven", what is the volume of the "stack", "bottle", "quarter"

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The story of the death or disappearance of Hitler during the storming of Berlin has thrilled the minds for decades. In the late 80s, journalist Artem Borovik even showed a photo of Hitler's jaw, which was kept in the KGB archives. There were different versions of his death, but the diary of the deceased in 1990 put an end to this issue

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Much has been written about Stalin's controversial personality. His personality was viewed from different points of view. At the same time, very little attention has been paid to its formation. How and how were his character traits formed? Where did he get his thirst for reading books? And knowledge in the field of natural sciences? Quivering

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In the second half of the 20s, Stalin completely defeated both left and right oppositionists (Stalin's fierce struggle for power in the turning 20s), who opposed his course of building socialism in a single country, which was based on industrialization based on a mobilization economy and

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For a long time, a version has been promoted in historical literature that Stalin was afraid to go to the front and never was there, and at the suggestion of the "strategist" Khrushchev, the leader allegedly led the troops "on a globe" and was afraid to leave Moscow. In fact, this is not the case: Stalin during the defense of Moscow in 1941

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The 1942 military campaign of the year for the Soviet command turned out to be no less catastrophic than the setbacks in 1941. After a successful Soviet counteroffensive in the winter of 1941/42 near Moscow, German troops were driven back to the Rzhev area, but the threat to Moscow still remained. Attempts by the Soviet

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Stalin's political figure still evokes a lot of both positive and negative emotions. Since his activities at the head of the Soviet state contributed to a breakthrough to a superpower, while accompanied by colossal sacrifices. How did this person reach the heights of power and what he

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The rapid disintegration of the Soviet space that took place in 1991 raised many questions about the strength of the Soviet state and the correctness of its national and state form chosen in December 1922. And it is not so easy Putin in one of his last interviews stated that Lenin

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The "great purge" of the higher party and state apparatus, carried out in the 1930s, continued after the war in a substantially curtailed form. Stalin, having made the country a superpower, closely monitored the formation of cadres in all areas - in industry, army, ideology, science and culture. He

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Source: Russian Ministry of Defense, mil.ru Stalin's activities in managing the state and its interaction in the foreign policy arena conceal many hidden mechanisms that he used so successfully. One of such mechanisms could be his personal strategic intelligence and counterintelligence, about which

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March marks one hundred years since the peace treaty between the RSFSR and Poland was concluded, which put an end to the Soviet-Polish war of 1919-1921. By analogy with the "obscene" Peace of Brest, the Peace of Riga can be called "shameful", since, according to the terms of the peace, the Soviet side was inferior to Poland

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In Soviet times, they tried not to advertise the maintenance and use of German prisoners of war and their allies after the war. Everyone knew that the former soldiers and officers of the Wehrmacht were used to restore cities destroyed by the war, at Soviet construction sites and factories, but there was no talk about it

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The formation of the American missile program under the leadership of the German designer Wernher von Braun is well known. There is very little information about the birth of the Soviet missile program with the participation of another team of German specialists under the leadership of Helmut Grettrup. Nazi rocket

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In accordance with the requirements of the allies to comply with the decisions of the Crimean Conference on the demilitarization of Germany, in April 1946 the Council of Ministers of the USSR adopted a resolution on the transfer of all work on military equipment from Germany to the Soviet Union (How the Nazi missile program of the FAU became the base of the Soviet

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In October 1947, German rocket scientists were deported to the Soviet Union, who worked comfortably on the Soviet rocket and space program and conducted a number of successful research on missiles (How the Nazi FAU rocket program became the base of the Soviet rocket and space

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One piece of evidence is enough to dispel doubts about a man's flight to the moon. Saturn V flew If, in front of tens of thousands of eyewitnesses who gathered on the day of launch on Cape Canaveral, the 2300-ton carrier was able to ascend into the sky, then all the controversy about flags, wrong dust and fake photographs

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Calculation of the 82-mm mortar BM-37. Stalingrad. 10/21/1942 Nearly 75 years ago, a unique case occurred on the site of the settlement: the fire of the Soviet 82-mm mortar of the 41st Infantry Regiment of the 84th Infantry Division shot down the German Focke-Wulf aircraft

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The system of punishments for negligence or committed misconduct in the sailing era was very sophisticated. For example, an officer always had a "nine-tailed cat" at hand - a special whip with nine ends, which left non-healing scars on the back. There were quite complex forms of punishment