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A soldier is a collective definition for a soldier in the army of any country in the world. This is one of the most frequently used words on military-themed resources, in military reports of news agencies. Often the term "soldiers" is associated with the rank and file of the troops, although this is currently
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Today, the medical theme prevails on the air - for obvious reasons. The world is in a waiting stage - will the coronavirus pandemic decline or a second wave will appear. The discussion of the medical topic is also connected with the work on the vaccine. The first vaccine against a new infection was created as
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“Where did the baptism of John come from: from heaven, or from men? They reasoned among themselves: if we say: "from heaven", then He will tell us: "why did you not believe him?" (Gospel of Matthew 21:25) both construction sites, leaving
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There were no propagandists, lecturers, many of whom died in our country after 1991. And such personalities remained in power? Yes? Yes! They have not left us anywhere! Scene from the movie "Carnival Night" "We know that the new forces of society, in order to act properly, need only
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"Hunting for effigies". Cathedral of st. Stephen's in Budapest. Photo by the author, taken by someone else … “From the Abbey of St. Geraldine, where Sir Tristan Druricom died and for three days, according to custom, lay in the church, on the day of St. Agates carried him out in a pine coffin on a rich gilded stretcher. They carried him in four rows
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Why did I decide to write this article? In November of this year on the pages of "VO" there were several articles about the aces who went down in history "from the other side". One of the readers was outraged and wrote that there are two heroes for him personally: his two grandfathers. Someone considered this statement not related to the article, someone
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What do we remember about the First World War? How do people far from history imagine the First World War? The most common sources of knowledge are vague memories from school lessons, some fragmentary information from publications and feature films, fragments of discussions, accidentally
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The tragic fate of the 2nd Army is known. It is widely believed that the attack on East Prussia was hasty, unprepared and simply suicidal. But is it? Was Samsonov really a mediocre general? Did Rennenkampf, out of personal dislike for Samsonov, really do not give him
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Hypothetical situation: the East Prussian operation ends in success As it was shown in the previous part, the defeat of the North-Western Front was not predetermined. Moreover, the initial chances of the Russian army were higher. Consider a hypothetical situation in which the East Prussian operation
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Tybalt fights Mercutio. Romeo and Juliet (1968). Both are holding a Tudor rapier “Capulet. What is the noise here? Give me my long sword! Signora Capulet. Crutch, crutch! What do you need your sword for? Capulet. A sword, they say! Look, old man Montague. As if in spite of me, I was waving my sword like that.”(William
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Memories of an evacuation hospital nurse "I was terribly sorry for the people." Lyudmila Ivanovna Grigorieva worked as a nurse in Moscow evacuation hospitals throughout the war. She talks about this time with professional restraint. And she begins to cry when she remembers what happened in her life before and after the war
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The silhouettes of 15 tanks, 15 ultra-modern vehicles were barely visible in the predawn twilight. Behind there was a night march, and in front … in front - the line of defense of the Nazis. What awaits the Soviet tank company there? For her, 26 kilometers of march was a trifle, but as an infantry, weren't people exhausted? Not
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December 6, 2008 marks the 95th anniversary of the birth of Nikolai Kiselev. Few people know that this man accomplished a feat during the Great Patriotic War. Nikolai Kiselev is the commander of the Red Army who escaped from captivity and ended up in 1941 in the occupied territory. By order of the Belarusian
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In 1941-1945, events went according to the least likely possible scenario. A more logical result of the Soviet-German confrontation would have been the Brest-Litovsk Peace-2 in 1942 Was the victory of Hitlerite Germany over the USSR possible? The answer depends a lot on what counts as a victory. If
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Article published May 07, 1945 Torgau is a small German city (population in peacetime was 14,000), but it had its place in history long before last week. It was the scene of the victory of Frederick the Great over Austria in 1760, as well as a place of concentration of the Austrian
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Information The Swede said that in the course of an independent investigation of the Katyn crime, carried out within the framework of the international project "The Truth About Katyn", information was received that in 1939-1040 in the USSR, the NKVD bodies shot about 3,200 citizens of former Poland: generals, officers
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On March 31, 1904, the battleship Petropavlovsk, the flagship of the Russian Pacific Fleet, exploded and sank in the outer roadstead of Port Arthur. This sea tragedy became the prologue to the crushing defeat of Russia in the war with Japan in 1904-1905, because among the seven hundred dead sailors was
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The good thing about the Soviet film "Twelfth Night" of 1955 is that, in addition to the excellent acting, you can still see equally beautiful costumes and weapons of the era of Shakespeare and Tudor England "Turning Property into Armor And Carrying Your Legacy" (William Shakespeare "The King
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After the Soviet air defense finally managed to shoot down the U-2, the airspace of the USSR ceased to be a "gateway for foreign reconnaissance aircraft" U-2 training flight over California. This state housed the main base of American reconnaissance aircraft - Biel. Except her
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German transport aircraft Junkers U.52 towing DFS 230 gliders during the first day of Operation Mercury The results of the two waves of the Cretan landing were disastrous. Many commanders were killed, wounded or captured. The German landing suffered heavy losses. None of the tasks completed
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But the most unshakable of these myths is about the victory of the Mujahideen over the Soviets. “Explosion? What kind of explosion? " Afghan Foreign Minister Shah Mohammed Dost asked, elegantly raising an eyebrow as I interrupted his interview to ask about the sudden uproar I had just heard. “Oh yes, explosions of dynamite
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Harbin The Russian railroad builders, like all foreigners in China, enjoyed the right of extraterritoriality. In accordance with article 6 of the contract for the construction of the CER in the right of way, all the usual institutions of the Russian administrative system were gradually created: the police, in which they served
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Incompatible words? Far-fetched? Life has proven and continues to prove that this is not so. There is no exaggeration, no mysticism in the assertion that in the body of the T-34 tank there was and is to this day a certain substance that can be called a soul. I think every creation of human hands and in the hands
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Despite the terrible losses, the economic system of the USSR was able to ensure Victory Direct damage caused by the Great Patriotic War to the economy of the USSR, equal to almost a third of the country's total national wealth, nevertheless, the national economy survived. And not only survived. In the pre-war and especially in
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The article was published on May 7, 1945 Berlin, a key city in the pretentious Nazi structure, was the masterpiece of all the senseless, suicidal last posts the Germans erected in blood and fire along the road that returned to it. The fourth city in the world, at its death hour was
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Alexander Kerensky. The failed Bonaparte of Alexander Kerensky is remembered by history both as a nobleman and a homeowner, and as a lawyer with huge fees. But both Kerensky, and the next two "interim" military ministers, and even more so, his main ally - Boris Savinkov, head of the military
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"On the guard border of the Moscow state." Painting by S. V. Ivanov, 1907 The war between Moscow and Kazan continued throughout the reign of Khan Safa-Girey. The fighting alternated with peace negotiations. The Kazan government tried to deceive Moscow and avoid retaliation. The crafty khan first started
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Mobilization. A young man reads a notice on the streets of Warsaw Before the beginning of 1938, the mobilization plan "S" was in force in the Polish armed forces. But in view of new events, the plan was found to be inappropriate to reality, both in terms of mobilizing human resources and military units, and
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They built, built The CER itself was conceived as a large-scale project that forms the infrastructure and laid the foundation for the internationalization of domestic business through the export of capital. The construction and operation of the China Eastern Railway (CER) has become one of the most instructive examples
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On the eve of the Victory Day celebrations, a wave has traditionally risen in the West, glorifying the allies for their "contribution" to the defeat of Nazi Germany and belittling the role of the Soviet Union. At the same time, they somehow try not to remember how all of Europe was conquered in a matter of days
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Battleship Mikasa Introduction At the very beginning of the twentieth century, there was an intensive development of naval artillery: new powerful and long-range guns appeared, shells were improved, rangefinders and optical sights were introduced. In total, this made it possible to fire at previously unattainable distances, significantly
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One of the finds of Heraklion - a sunken city near AlexandriaSince ancient and biblical times, legends about lost civilizations excite the imagination of many generations of people from different countries and peoples. Especially popular is the myth of Atlantis, about which, starting with Plato, not only historians and
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N. Roerich “The City is Being Built” From the end of the 11th to the beginning of the 14th century in Russia, while observing the unity of language, faith, memory of the unity of the whole land, as the patrimony of the Rurikovichs, processes of federalization or division of the country took place. They were caused by the emergence and development of a territorial community, in which everyone
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Bismarck before the naval battle, May 24, 1941 80 years ago, in a fleeting battle in the Danish Strait, the Germans sank the British battle cruiser Hood - the most famous and strongest in the Royal Navy at the time. Almost the entire crew was killed - out of 1419 people, only three slept. His rival is linear
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P.A.Krivonogov. Defenders of the Brest Fortress. 1951 Disaster of 1941 The summer and autumn of 1941 were terrifying for Russia and our people. One military disaster after another! It seemed that the Germans had already won! A significant part of the cadre of the Red Army was beaten or captured on the western borders! We
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The Russo-Japanese War was underway, and the First Pacific Squadron was blocked at Port Arthur. The Vladivostok cruiser detachment lost the Rurik in Tsushima. On land, defeat followed defeat, and the Baltic Fleet (more precisely, its combat-ready part) came to the rescue under the name of the 2nd Pacific Fleet
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1918 The Kingdom of Hungary was the oldest ally of the German Reich. Hungarian troops fought against Russia as part of the Austro-Hungarian army on the side of the Central Powers until 1918. The collapse of the Austrian double monarchy left behind a barely united Hungarian state. More than 70
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Tomb of Cyrus in Pasargadae “In the first year of Cyrus, king of Persia, in fulfillment of the word of the Lord from the mouth of Jeremiah, the Lord aroused the spirit of Cyrus, king of Persia, and he commanded to declare throughout his kingdom, verbally and in writing: thus says Cyrus, king of Persia: everything the kingdoms of the earth gave me the Lord God
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Palmyra, December 1938 In almost all countries of the world you can hear about cities that were once abandoned by their inhabitants. Some of them are known only from ancient sources, from others only settlements or sad ruins remained. But there are those who still shake their
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"Stalin's good, immortal deed must be fully defended." Funeral meeting dedicated to the memory of JV Stalin with the participation of the leadership of Albania. Tirana, 9 March 1953 Strategic foothold The ethnogenesis of the Albanians is not entirely clear. Among their ancestors are the ancient Indo-Europeans of the Mediterranean - Pelasgians, Illyrians