History 2024, November

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

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

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

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

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

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."

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

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

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

"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

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"

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

(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

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

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

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

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

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