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In January 1648, France found itself in the same situation of contention as our country is today. And it all began with a game of sling! This is what civil confrontation can lead to if you play too much. Now the French call that era with the cheerful word "Fronde" What is happening in Ukraine today, for many
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On the pages of VO, it has already been said more than once that there were three eras in the development of armor, that is, protective weapons used in the Middle Ages. These are the "age of chain mail", "age of chain mail armor" and "age of armor made of" white metal ". And the total duration of all these three eras is enough
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By the time the Khmer Rouge finally settled in the mountainous regions of northeastern Cambodia, the country was also undergoing rapid political change. The socio-economic situation in Cambodia worsened as the state agricultural cooperation program did not
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WHO KILLED THE LEGENDARY COMMANDER NIKOLAY SHHORS? In the Soviet Union, his name was a legend. Throughout the country, schoolchildren in the classroom learned a song about how "a regiment commander walked under a red banner, his head was wounded, blood on his sleeve …" It is about Shchors, the famous hero of the Civil War. Or, to put it
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It is always interesting when you are sitting in an archive and they bring you a greasy yellow document, of which you become the first reader, or in the library, opening a magazine more than a century old, you come across interesting material on a topic in which interest has not been lost to this day. One of these topics is
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In the USSR, the concept of charity did not exist. It was believed that the union of communists and non-party people and so good for everyone. However, charity in Russia existed before the revolution, and has appeared again today. Well, and, of course, it is interesting to get acquainted with this little-known page of the national
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190 years ago, on July 25, 1826, the execution of five leaders of the Decembrist uprising took place. In total, about 600 people were involved in the case of the Decembrists. The investigation was conducted with the direct and direct participation of Nicholas I. The result of the work of the court was a list of 121 "state criminals"
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190 years ago, on December 14 (26), 1825, an uprising of the Decembrists took place in St. Petersburg. After the failed attempt to resolve the matter peacefully, Nicholas I suppressed the rebels. Later, through the efforts of Westerners-liberals, social democrats, and then Soviet historiography, a myth was created about
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Set out in the form of a father's parting words. My friend! The position entrusted to you by the Fatherland and its Sovereign is one of the best in the army. Your deputy, a wise warrior, had no less reason to get this position than you, but they preferred you. Remember this and always treat him with a worthy
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With all the auxiliary contingents, individual corps and detachments, the Allied ground forces numbered about half a million soldiers. However, they were dispersed over a large area and did not have a unified command. French army along with Italian and Dutch contingents
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Four years ago, on August 23, 2010, Marcel Albert, the legendary pilot of the famous Normandie-Niemen aviation regiment, died. The date, of course, is not round, but it is a sin not to remember such well-deserved people. Marcel Albert was one of the very French military pilots who fought on
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In the spring of 1942, a Soviet military transport aircraft heading for Yelets landed in Mtsensk, occupied by the Nazis. On board was the newly appointed commander of the 48th Army, Major General A.G. Samokhin, who was heading to a new place of service. The pilots and passengers of the plane were captured
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There is such a science - source studies, about which few people know, but which plays an important role in history. After all, no statement can be based on empty space, and even such an argument as “I remember” and “I saw” is more often than not an argument. There is a well-known saying: he lies as an eyewitness! If there is
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On the question of the "instigators" of World War II and "inciting" Good day to everyone. To begin with, I will give a good saying: "He who has no future looks for himself in the past." Apparently, following this saying, last week the "sworn" friends of Poland and Ukraine again
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Part 1. "Elton" On Sunday, April 9 at 10.00, the commander of the hydrographic vessel "Elton" took over as the battalion duty officer. In the second half of the day, an understanding came: something had happened at sea. By the evening, we set the task of picking up a vessel with a hydrological cable on board with a length of at least 2,000
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One of the manifestations of the Stalinist repressive policy in the countryside is considered the decree of the Central Executive Committee and the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR, issued on August 7, 1932, "On the Protection of Property of State Enterprises, Collective Farms and Cooperation and Strengthening Public (Socialist) Property"
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Ataman-sadness … This is how the Don was nicknamed the hero of the Great War, the ataman of the Great Don Army, Aleksey Maksimovich Kaledin (1861-1918), who passed away when it seemed to him that there was no longer any possibility for the Don to resist the onslaught of the godless pro-German forces … But Kaledin had and other
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Poland marked its appearance on the map of Europe in modern times with an attack in March 1919 on Russia, which lay in the ruins of civil war and intervention. Despite the almost lightning-fast seizure of Kiev, Vilno and Minsk, in order to solve the task set by Pilsudski, “to reach Moscow and write to
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"Without the right to fame, for the glory of the state" The motto of the Foreign Intelligence Service. The fate of an illegal intelligence officer is always special. It is one thing when a person works at an embassy, trade or cultural representation legally, and he has both diplomatic immunity and the passport of his native country. AND
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240 years ago, on January 10 (21), 1775, Emelyan Ivanovich Pugachev was executed on Bolotnaya Square in Moscow. Calling himself "Emperor Peter III", the Don Cossack raised the Yaik Cossacks to revolt. Soon, the uprising escalated into the fire of the Peasant War, which engulfed a huge region and caused panic among
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Supplies from Great Britain and the United States supplemented the Soviet industry in those industries where there was not enough capacity of their own
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The myth of the “Belarusian European state”, the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, which opposed the aggressive claims of “Asian” Moscow, is the foundation of the modern mythology of Belarusian nationalists One of the tenets of the Belarusian nationalist ideology is the statement that
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Two hundred and twenty years ago, on April 15, 1795, Empress Catherine II signed the Manifesto on the annexation of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the Duchy of Courland and Semigalsk to the Russian Empire. This is how the famous Third Section of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth ended, as a result of which most of
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It cannot be said that before Hitler's attack, the nature of the future war and the role of large mechanized formations in it, no one in our country understood and did not foresee. Quite the opposite, in the USSR, the development of tank forces proceeded in accordance with the doctrine of "deep operation". It was nominated by the Soviet military
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I never thought I would have to write that. But - a fact. The commander of the Ghost Brigade, Aleksey Borisovich Mozgovoy, died as a result of another assassination attempt. Third in a row, he was a difficult person. Quirky and sometimes hard to understand. But his path is the path of the builder of that New Russia
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Every year on November 7, Russia celebrates a memorable date - the Day of the October Revolution of 1917. Until 1991, November 7 was the main holiday of the USSR and was called the Day of the Great October Socialist Revolution. During the entire existence of the Soviet Union (celebrated since 1918), November 7 was
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95 years ago, the Red Army crushed the last stronghold of the White Guards in southern Russia and broke into the Crimea. At the beginning of 1920, during the defeat of Denikin's armies, General Slashchev's corps managed to hold the peninsula, repelled the red attacks three times. This turned out to be a salvation for the white groups retreating in the Kuban
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The strength of the Bolsheviks in October lay in the ability to preserve party unity, despite significant differences. For the time being, the Bolsheviks always managed to settle conflicts, avoiding a split in the face of numerous opponents. Autumn 1917. Photo by J. Steinberg
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The publication in VO of A. Volodin's article and the controversy that followed on the pages of the site once again show that the citizens of Russia are tired of myths, both “on the right” and “on the left,” that the history of the Fatherland is very important for them, like those sources, on which the historian can rely when studying it. And it turned out like this
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240 years ago, on November 18, 1775, a manifesto was issued on the new regional division of Russia. The Russian Empire was divided into 50 provinces. The first 8 provinces were formed by order of Peter I in 1708. Empress Catherine II continued the reform. Instead of provinces, counties and provinces, division was introduced
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"Road No. 2" or some other simplicity is worse than theft! The publication of "Road No. 1" caused an ambiguous reaction from VO readers. But it is very significant that 11 votes "FOR", 5 "AGAINST", but there were 90 "comments" to it! That is, the factual side of the case was unknown to the majority (and
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November 20 marks 70 years since the beginning of the Nuremberg Trials. The Nuremberg Trials are the trial of a group of top Nazi war criminals. It is also called the "Court of History". Held in Nuremberg (Germany) from November 20, 1945 to October 1, 1946 at the International Military
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Today the name of Lieutenant Schmidt is known to many, even to people with little knowledge of Russian history. "Children of Lieutenant Schmidt" were mentioned in the novel by Ilf and Petrov "The Golden Calf", and relatively recently the famous KVN team from Tomsk appeared under the same name. The debut of the "children" of one of
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It's sad when People leave with a capital letter. It's sad when times change. But when whole epochs go away, it’s unbearable. It’s not for nothing that I wrote the word “Constructor” with a capital letter. This is a kind of tribute to Novozhilov. And the recognition that the Constructor is not only a title, but also a vocation
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Each time it's hard to talk about the heroes who received this title posthumously. And in general, one way or another, but touching on the topic of death is not easy. What is human life? And who needs all these feats? For what are the heroes of Russia dying? So that later, under some chomping, sorry, snotty teenager, not
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What was the contribution to the victory of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief? Yuri Nikiforov, the head of the scientific sector of the Russian Military-Historical Society, Candidate of Historical Sciences, Yuri Nikiforov, shared his views on this matter with the "Historian" Photo by Ekaterina Koptelova Role of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief
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When politicians cannot agree among themselves, it remains to rely only on people's diplomacy, an example of which is the initiative of a number of non-governmental organizations. Its essence is the reconstruction of the ferrying of military aircraft under Lend-Lease in 1942-1945 from the USA to the USSR. Seven decades ago, this
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Most people have no idea who is pictured below, although you should know him. This man should be as sickened as Mussolini, Mao or Hitler, for he committed genocide against Africans, resulting in over 10 million deaths in Congo
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On September 8, Moscow celebrates City Day. And it would be very appropriate to remember that on the territory of our capital there was an ancient settlement that arose two and a half thousand years ago (5-4 centuries BC). It was located on the site of the current Filevsko-Kuntsevsky Park. Archaeological
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On June 30, 1919, troops under the command of Lieutenant General Baron Pyotr Wrangel broke into Tsaritsyn. In many ways, the success of the Whites was ensured by tanks: the Wrangelites used them, throwing them against the fortifications of the Reds