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CHAPTER 11. RESPONSE MOVE August 31, 1942 Volkhov front, command post of the 8th Army. At the command post of the 8th Army, stretching out "in line", the arriving leadership of the Volkhov Front was met by the army commander, along with his chiefs of staff and artillery. Next to them was a specially summoned
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A Blackwater Employee's Opinion on Mercenaries and Regular Militias 8. African tribes. It's not even interesting to fight with them. They shoot indiscriminately, they do not know about aimed shooting, they often shoot into the ground under their feet
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Who knows about the Ossetian war? And about the Karabakh war? Everything? And how was the First Chechen war lost, and how was the second won? I'm talking about those that happened in 1920. Do you want to know how the war in Donbass and Ukraine will end? Then you need to study very well the history of the first
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Born on March 3, 1908 in the village of Krest-Khaldzhai, now the Tomponsky District (Yakutia), in a peasant family. Primary education. He worked on a collective farm. From September 1941 in the Red Army. Since December of the same year at the front. Participant of the battles near Moscow, liberation of Kalinin, Smolensk, Vitebsk
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By the decree of the emperor of May 27, 1832, the Azov Cossack army was formed from the Cossacks of the Transdanubian Sich and the petty bourgeoisie of Petrovsky Posad, which was to be guided by the charters and regulations of the already existing Cossack troops. Subsequently, due to the small number of troops, they were
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The Semirechye Cossack army was formed by separating from the Siberian Cossack army No. 9 and No. 10 Cossack regiments on June 13, 1867. (according to the reference book of the Imperial Main Apartment). These regiments were forcibly transferred to Turkestan in 1857. to protect the southern borders of the Russian Empire (in
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On June 26, 1889, the Ussuri Cossack army was established. The history of the army dates back to the formation of the Ussuri Cossack foot battalion in the Amur army on June 1, 1860. In November 1879, the battalion was reorganized into the Ussuriysk Cossack foot half-battalion in connection with
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On June 13, 1723, the Volga Cossack army was formed. It was formed in connection with the creation of the Tsaritsyn fortified border line, with its center in Dubovka, on the right bank of the Volga, north of Tsaritsyn (now Volgograd). It was created mainly from the Don (520 families) resettled to the Volga and
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On June 27, 1651, immigrants from Little Russia and Poland, known as Cherkassy and living along the southern border of Moscow Ukraine, were organized into regiments: Sumy, Izyumsky, Akhtyrsky, Kharkov, Ostrogozhsky (territories of modern Sumy, Kharkov, parts of Donetsk and Lugansk regions of Ukraine
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The Bug Cossack army was created on May 8, 1803 from the Bug Horse Cossack Regiment and 600 hundred Bulgarian settlers who lived on the lands of the Bug Cossack Regiment. Volunteers from other South Slavic peoples were assigned to the army. Since 1803, the center of the army has become the village of Sokoly (now g
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On July 3, 1787, one-family palaces, settled in the Yekaterinoslav province (Yekaterinoslavl now the city of Dnepropetrovsk), were converted to the Cossack rank along the former Ukrainian line. According to a number of historians, after the liquidation of the Zaporizhzhya Sich, the Cossack name on the Dnieper was withdrawn from
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On March 24, 2016, a representative of the Russian base "Khmeimim" in Syria said dryly:
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“Forty forty-ruble teachers can lead to complete decomposition not only of a group of homeless people, but also of any group.” This quote is one of the most memorable, in my humble opinion, included in the book - a collection of works of 7 volumes. The author of this book is one of the most
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Battle of Kalka. P. V. Ryzhenko. The protracted nature and special destructiveness of the "occupation" of Russia by the Golden Horde were caused not so much by the strength of the Horde, as by the fact that they themselves were the object of manipulation by powerful financial and trading communities
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The black myth of the Holodomor is very versatile. His supporters argue that collectivization in the USSR was the main cause of famine in the country; that the Soviet leadership deliberately organized the export of grain abroad, this led to an aggravation of the food situation in the country; that Stalin deliberately
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In the last twenty - twenty-five years, the myths that the national economy of the Stalinist USSR was ineffective and did not withstand the test of the Great Patriotic War, that the Soviet Union was saved by the help of Western allies, have become very popular. Thus, she was impudently insulted
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On October 14, exactly seven decades have passed since the moment when the Ukrainian Insurgent Army, which was part of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists, was formed. During the presidency of the "orange" political leaders, the head of this organization, Roman Shukhevych, was even recognized as a hero
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Among the many accusations that are directed against Stalin, one can find the opinion that in the 1930s a course of excessive militarization was deliberately taken. From this statement, it is then concluded that the Soviet leadership was preparing for external expansion, wars of conquest. In the West
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30 years ago, on June 7, 1982, the most significant event in modern history took place in the Vatican - the meeting of US President Ronald Reagan (the son of a zealous Irish Catholic) with Pope John Paul II (in the world - the Pole Karol Wojtyla). The conversation, which lasted almost an hour, was mainly about Poland and
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The message on "VO" that the Minister of Defense of Hungary came to Voronezh on a visit aroused interest. Some of the readers expressed surprise at both this fact and the fact that there are burials of Hungarian soldiers on the territory of the region. We will tell about one of these burials. Actually, the story about him
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Why don't the Russians or Bengalis shout to the whole world about the genocide committed against them? Why do they not appeal to international courts, do they not demand the obligatory conduct of genocide lessons in schools? There is such a conflict: the answer lies on the surface, because it … - in the deep sources of the Russian and Indian
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In the new textbooks on the history of Ukraine, one of the most important events in the history of Square and Europe is considered the great battle of Konotop in 1659, when 15,000 Ukrainians under the leadership of Hetman Vyhovsky destroyed 150,000 Russian invaders and the entire flower of the Russian nobility. President Yushchenko in 2008 was
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The number of prisoners of war who ended up on the territory of the Soviet Union after the victory of the USSR in the Great Patriotic War is still a subject of controversy among various researchers. Most likely, it is worth starting all the same from the official figures indicated in the statistics of the People's Commissariat
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The joint declaration signed on October 19, 1956 by representatives of Moscow and Tokyo in the capital of our Motherland is a rather controversial international agreement. In any case, the debate about whether it was the correct diplomatic move of the Soviet side or was originally
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Voennoye Obozreniye continues the cycle of small stories devoted to army terms, including those that were used in the army earlier, and then went out of use. Terms and their origin stories. These terms include, for example, "lyadunka" - a word for the hearing of a modern person
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The Nazis' plans included a complete solution of the "Russian question". So, in the instructions for the soldiers of the Wehrmacht "Military training in the troops" it was said: "For your personal glory, you must kill exactly 100 Russians … Destroy pity and compassion in yourself, kill every Russian; don't stop - old man
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This article, written by a veteran of the Great Patriotic War, tells about the acquaintance in the summer of 1943 of Soviet combat pilots with the German Bf-109 fighter of one of the latest modifications. In this article, the author speaks with confidence about the Bf-109K, distinguishing it from the already seen Bf-109G. However, this
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According to one version, the Romanovs ("Roman") were a project of the Vatican, which, with the help of Poland, put them on the throne of Russia. There is practically no direct evidence, but there are many indirect ones, especially if we analyze their actions. Before them, the Kitezh project was carried out in Russia, which was launched by the elder
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Everyone knows that the USSR has been going to ruin for a long time. There are many reasons for this - the authoritarianism of the state, monocentrism of decision-making, the inability of the state to satisfy the needs of the population, the constant lag in the standard of living from the developed countries of the West, and by the end, unsuccessful attempts
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The overwhelming majority of the citizens of our country will answer this question quite predictably - the Soviet Union made a decisive contribution to the victory over fascism. And this is the correct answer. It was the USSR that bore the brunt of the war with Nazi Germany, laying the greatest number of victims on the altar of Victory. But
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The Tatsinsky raid of Major General Vasily Badanov became one of the most glorious pages of the Great Patriotic War. In December 1942, when the situation at Stalingrad remained very tense, the troops of his 24th Panzer Corps broke through the front and reached the German rear airfield, which
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Until the end of his days, the designer of a liquid-jet (rocket) engine for the first fighter-interceptor Valentin Glushko could not forgive Leonid Dushkin for his crime. Nothing is written about this person in the "Red" Encyclopedia of Cosmonautics, edited by the academician
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After the referendum and the annexation of Crimea to Russia, the liberal-bourgeois press, on the orders of its leaders, began a new wave of organized ideological attacks on Russian and Soviet spiritual values, on the achievements of the USSR in the struggle for peace and rendering assistance to all progressive forces on the planet
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Friends, there are many museums and memorial complexes in the CIS countries that need restoration and will be glad to receive any help. To unite and coordinate people who are not indifferent to history and remember the feat of the people during the Great Patriotic War, the team of the global initiative
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We present the winners of the competition dedicated to the Defender of the Fatherland Day. Second place. Came to serve as a lieutenant in 1978 in a missile regiment. The regiment was famous (unfortunately, it was). He was the first to take up combat duty in 1976 on the new Pioneer ground mobile complexes. The americans
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Over the years of the war, many wonderful war correspondents have appeared in Novorossia, through whose eyes we see what is happening there as a chronicle-warning, as something that in the event of the defeat of the Russians in the Donbass could become the future of the entire Russian Federation. One of the most famous and beloved by the people
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The pilot of the group "Russian Knights" Sergei Eremenko, whose plane crashed today in the Moscow region, did everything to take the car away from residential buildings. But there was not enough time for the bailout. These are the preliminary findings of the investigators working at the crash site
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On a sunny day on July 3, 1941, a Soviet tank slowly entered the city of Minsk, which had been captured by the Nazis for a week. Lonely, already frightened by the Germans, passers-by hurriedly huddled up to the houses - a huge three-turret armored vehicle crawled along the streets of the city, bent with four machine guns
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Koshechkin Boris Kuzmich - Soviet tankman, officer, participant of the Great Patriotic War. In parts of the Red Army since 1940, he retired with the rank of colonel. During the war, commanded a tank company in the 13th Guards Tank Brigade of the 4th Guards Tank Corps as part of the 60th Army
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Twenty years ago, on June 12, 1999, Russian peacekeepers, using one battalion, made a rapid 600 km march through Bosnia and Yugoslavia and captured the Slatina airfield in the Kosovar capital of Pristina. The NATO command was simply shocked by the actions of the Russian