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The Ostrovsky mine layer was born at the Sevastopol Marine Plant. And at the very beginning, he was quite a peaceful cargo-passenger ship. By order of the Sovtorgflot on August 1, 1928, a civil vessel was laid down according to the project of the motor ship "Dolphin". And the name of the future minzag was different

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The West received an asymmetric response for cartoons of Ivan the Terrible With the filing of its overseas owner, sanctions and boycotts are announced, visa restrictions are introduced, assets are frozen, attempts are made to devalue

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A letter from a French soldier from Crimea, addressed to a certain Maurice, a friend of the author, in Paris: “Our major says that according to all the rules of military science, it is high time for them (Russian - Yu. D.) to capitulate. For each of their cannons, we have five cannons, for each soldier, ten. You should have seen their guns! Probably have

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Once here, in Voennoye Obozreniye, reading the article by Vyacheslav Olegovich Shpakovsky, "Voynushka" - the favorite game of Soviet children ", I remembered my childhood, which I spent on Fr. Sakhalin in the military town of the village of Smirnykh. At that distant time, we often climbed the underground passages and trenches of the Japanese who were left with

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On March 12, 1940, a peace treaty was signed with Finland, which ended the Soviet-Finnish war and ensured an advantageous change of borders. The Soviet-Finnish war of 1939-40 is not considered successful in our history. Indeed, at a superficial glance, it seems that this is precisely a failure - after all, a large

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Social networks are full of 25-year-old memories: what would later be called a “coup” caught people suddenly, and few people understood what it was all about. Looking back, we have to state with bitterness - on the one hand, there was an unsuccessful attempt to save the Soviet Union. And on the other side rose

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Tamerlane returned to Samarkand in 1396 and turned his gaze to India. Outwardly, there was no particular reason for the invasion of India. Samarkand was safe. Tamerlane had many worries and was already an elderly person (especially by the standards of that time). However, the Iron Lamer went to fight again. AND

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Hitler's master plan "Ost" had "respectable" predecessors in imperial Germany In the field of foreign policy, Emperor Nicholas II inherited a difficult legacy. The situation on the world stage was unfavorable for Russia. First of all, in the last decades of the XIX

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Operation plan of the 1st Belorussian Front The general plan of the operation of the 1st Belorussian Front under the command of Marshal G.K

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Frigatten Captain Theodore Detmers lowered his binoculars in thought. Their enemy - strong, fast and deadly - was slowly ripping open the Pacific waves with a sharp bow, some one and a half kilometers from his ship. Confident in his strength, the enemy carelessly approached the one whom the commander

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On September 27, 1942, the German OKM (Oberkommando der Marine), the high command of the Kriegsmarine, received a radiogram from the blockade breaker Tannenfels, reporting that the auxiliary cruiser Stir had sunk as a result of a battle with an "enemy auxiliary cruiser" in the Caribbean. So

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Guerrilla tactics allowed the Boers to defeat the British, who fought according to the old, already obsolete military canons. The Anglo-Boer War was the first of a new type of conflict. It was there that smokeless powder, shrapnel, machine guns, khaki uniforms and armored trains were first massively used

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On May 14, 1948, the State of Israel was proclaimed. The often repeated Psalm 137 from the book of the Psalter, compiled during the first Jewish captivity in Babylon (VI century BC), contains the well-known oath: "If I forget you, O Jerusalem, May my right

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On October 12, 1899, the Boer republics of South Africa declared war on Great Britain. So the Second Boer War officially began. As you know, Great Britain has long dreamed of establishing full control over the entire territory of South Africa. Despite the fact that the first to explore the territory

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Representatives of the Soviet air force made a huge contribution to the defeat of the Nazi invaders. Many pilots gave their lives for the freedom and independence of our Motherland, many became Heroes of the Soviet Union. Some of them forever entered the elite of the Russian Air Force, the famous

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Operation plan The rout of the Heilsberg grouping and the reduction of the front line allowed the Soviet command to quickly regroup its forces in the Konigsberg direction. In mid-March, the 50th army of Ozerov was transferred to the Konigsberg direction, by March 25 - the 2nd Guards

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Storming of Koenigsberg. April 7, 1945 On April 7, the 11th Guards Army of Galitsky was to continue a decisive offensive with the aim of splitting the southern part of the Koenigsberg garrison and destroying it piece by piece. The guards were given the task of crossing the Pregel River and moving towards the 43rd Army

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33 years have passed since the end of Operation Eagle's Claw, but alas, there is still a lot of confusion about this confusing story. The drama in Tehran began on November 4, 1979. A crowd of 400 people claiming to be members of the Organization of Muslim Students - Followers course of Imam Khomeini, attacked

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The countries participating in World War II made every effort to win. Many women volunteered for the military or did traditional male work at home, in factories and at the front. Women worked in factories and in government organizations, were active

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The black myth about hundreds of thousands and millions of German women raped in 1945 by Soviet soldiers (and representatives of other nations) has recently become part of an anti-Russian and anti-Soviet information campaign. This and other myths contribute to the transformation of the Germans from aggressors into victims

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Soviet-Japanese diplomatic relations were restored 57 years ago, and the Russian media often claim that Moscow and Tokyo are still at war. The logic of the authors of such statements is simple and straightforward. Once a peace treaty between the two countries

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Hitler's suicide on April 30, 1945 is considered an indisputable fact. However, from time to time, publications appear in which it is argued that the greatest villain of all times and peoples safely escaped death and hid in one of the South American countries, where he died surrounded by his loving wife and

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The revival of a part of the Polish political elite of plans to build the Third Rzecz Pospolita "from sea to sea" makes one recall the sad history of the Second Rzecz Pospolita (1918-1939). Its history is a good reminder of modern Poland that all its plans for expansion to the east

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The year 2015 - the seventieth year since the end of the Second World War - goes down in history. Hundreds of articles, documents, photographs dedicated to the holy anniversary were published by Rodina this year. And we decided to devote the December issue of our "Scientific Library" to some results and

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More than 66 years have passed since the end of the Great Patriotic War. During this time, much has been rethought, much has been criticized, and much has not yet been appreciated. There is no doubt about the feat of the Soviet people, who, at the cost of colossal losses, defended the independence of the country in which we are now

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When once again there are reports in the press about the suspension of the operation of any equipment or the next scheduled technical inspections at the Rostov NPP, every time you think about national security in the use of atomic energy. Especially when Chernobyl today can become

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Alexander Marinesco. Photo of 1945 One of the most important events in the history of Russia in the XX century for national identity is the Great Patriotic War - sacred for all Russians. Actions to destroy its generalized image and associated symbols is one of the information operations

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The future submariner was born on January 15, 1913. His father, Ivan Alekseevich Marinescu, was from Romania. An orphan from the age of seven, he, being smart and hardworking, rose to the respected position of an agricultural machinery operator. In 1893 he was drafted into the Navy and assigned as a fireman on a torpedo boat

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The road to the military-political success of the RDS-6S tests On August 12, 2013, it will be 60 years since the test of the first Soviet hydrogen bomb RDS-6S. It was an experimental charge, of little use for military operation, but it - for the first time in world practice - could be installed on an aviation

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The entire potential of Soviet science was invested in the RDS-6S product.It is known from the published archival documents that in the initial period of the Soviet Atomic Project, two versions of the hydrogen bomb (VB) were developed: the "pipe" (RDS-6T) and the "puff" (RDS-6S). The names to a certain extent corresponded to theirs

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“Now go and smite Amalek (and Jerim) and destroy everything that he has (do not take anything from them, but destroy and cast over everything that he has); and give him no mercy, but put him to death, from husband to wife, from boy to suckling child, from ox to sheep, from camel to donkey.”(1 Kings 15: 3)

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The development of the Soviet offensive After the Sokolov's cavalry-mechanized group entered the Krasnik area and the 3rd Guards Army of Gordov moved to the same area, a favorable situation arose for the rapid advance of the troops of the right wing of the 1st Ukrainian Front towards the Vistula and into the area

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One of the most famous “black myths” of the Great Patriotic War”is a tale about“bloody”security officers (special officers, NKVEDs, Smershevites). They are especially honored by filmmakers. Few were subjected to such large-scale criticism and humiliation as the Chekists. The bulk of the population gets about them

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Continuation, beginning here: Part 1 On the Defense of Stalingrad A new stage in the history of the detachments began in the summer of 1942, when the Germans broke through to the Volga and the Caucasus. On July 28, the famous order No. 227 of the People's Commissar of Defense of the USSR IV Stalin was issued, which, in particular, prescribed: “2. Military councils of armies

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130 years ago, on January 21 (February 2), 1885, the Soviet statesman and military leader Mikhail Vasilyevich Frunze was born. The Soviet statesman and commander gained fame as the winner of Kolchak, the Ural Cossacks and Wrangel, the Petliurists and Makhnovists, the conqueror of Turkestan. On

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Fate brought me together with Colonel Kukarin Evgeny Viktorovich in the spring of 1999 near Kizlyar. At that time, he, an officer of the High Command of the Internal Troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, was sent to Dagestan, where tension was growing along the entire line of the administrative border with Chechnya: military clashes followed one after

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"… And she feeds on fables!" (Boris Godunov. AS Pushkin) Who can argue that you need to know the history of your fatherland? No one! But you can know it in different ways. You can limit yourself to a school textbook and … the junior scooper of the sewage convoy doesn't need it anymore. You can also read “School of the Future

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There is not enough air, it’s hard to breathe, it seems that the underground haze is swallowing up your whole being … Reading the notes of the search engines is difficult and sometimes simply impossible: I take a breath and again read these lines, scorched by tragedy. They came to me from the War Veterans Center, where they accumulate

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The successful demonstration of unmanned balloons by brothers Montgolfier and Charles inspired hope for a speedy solution to the eternal dream of the romantics of "aerial flying" - human flight. Two weeks before the launch of the Montgolfier brothers balloon with animals, which was carried out on September 19, 1783, to the academy

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It often happens that awards do not find their heroes: awards are lost, personnel officers are mistaken, the situation in the unit changes. It happens that not those who have proven themselves on the battlefield are awarded, but those who are closer to the headquarters or an important chief. It happens that the heroic deed is forgotten or the heroic deed does not remain