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The Fuhrer felt that precious time slipped away from him like sand between his fingers. Moscow was Barbarossa's most important target. However, the resistance of the Red Army forced to forget about it for a while and focus on the flanks of the Soviet-German front. Even in the midst of the battle for Kiev into the light
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The true history of the Soviet naval anchorage at Socotra Discussions about Moscow's plans to acquire naval bases outside the country have been replenished with one more - today we allegedly show interest not only in the Syrian port of Tartus, but also in the Yemeni island of Socotra. In Russia only about Socotra
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Rafael Zakirov, a member of the Academy of Military Sciences, a retired colonel, tells about the events of the Cuban Missile Crisis. Cristobal
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Despite the fact that in the first days of the Second World War, the Red Army suffered huge losses and mostly retreated, there is, albeit scanty information about the use of captured, captured, German equipment by some units of the Soviet troops, in particular tanks. For example in various articles and publications
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To the hero of the anti-fascist resistance, Georg Elser, a 17-meter monument will be erected in Berlin. Adolf Hitler was distinguished by constancy in his habits. Every year on November 8, he came to Munich and visited a pub called Brgerbrukeller, from where in 1923 the famous
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Ninety-two years ago, on November 11, 1918, at five o'clock in the morning local time, a truce was concluded between the Entente countries and Germany in the Compiegne forest. Germany's allies - Bulgaria, the Ottoman Empire and Austria-Hungary - surrendered even earlier. World War I
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Before this legendary battle, Hitler's armies were still advancing. After her there was nothing but retreat and final defeat. November 11, 1942, Adolf Hitler was at his residence Berchtesgaden, in the mountains of Bavaria. There he celebrated with his closest entourage the capture of Stalingrad and
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And 153 “There was an interweaving of two approaches in our and the German Air Force - rationalism and ostentation,” notes Dobrovolsky. - And yet - the different price of life on the scales of history. The Germans took care of their soldier. Ours about such categories - a lone soldier - did not really care. And more recently, a monument was erected
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A commentary about the excellent Abrams tank is circulating across the open spaces of the Runet. Read it and you will like it!))) Abrams (M1 Abrams) - an iron American battle tin can chariot to prepare people of non-Indos nationality for the program of democracy implementation, developed by the central kagal ZOG for
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■ FRENCH PEPPERBOX-STYLE OF THE XIX CENTURY from the collection of the Tula Museum. The scheme of the pepperbox made it possible to "surround" any round or polyhedral tube with trunks. A man has always dreamed of killing two birds with one stone. Better not two, but twenty at once. Therefore, hand-held small arms
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Today, November 15, marks 22 years since the first and only flight of our reusable transport spacecraft "Buran". As well as the second and last flight of the Energia super-heavy launch vehicle. Regular readers know that this event cannot pass by my
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This story was written from the words of a man who was in Angola and experienced it all. That is to say, the look of a soldier from the trench. He told this in 2005, 30 years later. The alarm, the "Balancer" signal, sounded at 5 am. Hearing this prearranged signal, my heart skipped a beat, is it really a war! "Balancer" sounded only on
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Today on the BBC Russian Service website there was a note with the recollections of the British singer James Blunt, who served in Kosovo in 1999. He was in charge of the British military unit in Pristina at the moment when the Pristina airfield was suddenly captured by a battalion of our
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Before my second trip to Afghanistan in 1986, "grandfather" Starinov * * Professor Ilya Grigorievich Starinov - born in 1900, veteran of four wars, legendary saboteur, "grandfather" of Soviet special forces showed me a Yugoslav magazine with an article about the underground war in Vietnam. Immediately flashed
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“With the help of skillful propaganda, one can imagine even the most miserable life as paradise and, conversely, paint the most prosperous life with the blackest colors” - this is how Hitler wrote in his work “Mein Kampf.” Propaganda was the basis of the existence of the Third Reich, precisely thanks to skillful and skillful propaganda
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As before, disputes over the question of why the colossal military catastrophe that happened to our country on June 22, 1941 and brought innumerable calamities to our people became possible. It would seem that the Soviet leadership before the war did everything possible and even impossible to
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70 years ago, the Allied Expeditionary Force was ready to land in the Russian North. If the Western powers had been able to fulfill their plans, the Second World War would have developed differently. The Anglo-French invasion of the Soviet Arctic was prevented only by the fact that Finland, under the pretext of
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The destruction of the city of Damur is just one of the links in the genocide of Christians in Lebanon, carried out by local Muslims and Druze, who were later joined by newcomer Palestinian Arabs, and then pro-Iranian Shiites. Citizens of the USSR could not find out about this from the Soviet press, their country supported
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Expert on Korea Konstantin Asmolov: “In the minds of several generations who survived the war, the psychological orientation to confrontation remained.” The largest military incident between the DPRK and the Republic of Korea in the past half century recalled that the war on the Korean Peninsula is still not over. Truce
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He is called "the last great Frenchman", in his historical role in the 20th century he is certainly compared with Churchill and Roosevelt. After living a long eighty year life, he really deserves these reviews. Charles de Gaulle became for the citizens of his country a symbol of patriotism, the fight against Nazism
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90 years ago - November 22, 1920 - several thousand Russians were thrown onto the bare coast near the small dilapidated Greek town of Gallipoli. The shipwreck that caused such a large number of Robinsons and Fridays should be called
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According to the writings of modern Chechen-Ingush chroniclers, their fellow tribesmen were the most loyal servants of the sovereign-emperor, to the last drop of blood they fought for a white cause and at the same time played a role in the victory of the Bolsheviks. In fact, the main achievements of the predecessors of Dudaev and Basaev, as well as
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On March 25, 1984, sensational news spread around the world - a Soviet nuclear submarine surfaced in the center of the US Navy's carrier strike group and … … rammed the aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk. The events unfolded as follows. In early March, an aircraft carrier strike group (AUG) of the US Navy entered the Sea of Japan
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In the winter of 1918, he saved the Baltic Fleet. Withdrew from the ports of Revel and Helsingfors 236 warships, including 6 battleships, 5 cruisers and 54 destroyers, from under the nose of the rapidly advancing Germans and took them through the ice to Kronstadt. The "reward" for the feat was unexpected - by personal order
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The outbreak of the Cold War and the arms race contributed to the rapid development of rocketry in the USSR. If in the early 50s we still continued to release the R-1 rocket, essentially an improved version of the V-2, then on October 4, 1957, a powerful multistage rocket launched into orbit
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Exactly 50 years ago, in the last week of June 1960, 4 African states were "liberated" at once (Madagascar, Mali, Somalia and Congo). Africa was liberated in bulk. Then the colonial administration left, but the interests of business remained: they could already be defended in a different way. Among
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On a sunny day on July 3, 1941, a Soviet tank slowly entered the city of Minsk, having 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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For a long time I didn’t understand: why “White Finns”? Due to heavy snowfall? However, there was still a point in the propaganda cliché. In 1917, taking advantage of the general turmoil, the Suomi Senate led the "parade of sovereignties" and thus lit the fuse for the civil war in the Land of a Thousand Lakes. In spite of
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His name is probably the most famous Russian name in the whole world: Kalashnikov. Presumably, from 60 to 80 million Kalashnikovs - no one knows the exact number - are in circulation. The man who, by creating the AK-47 assault rifle, practically became synonymous with mass shooting and assassination
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You can now get to the islands of the Moonsund archipelago through any of the Baltic republics, since there are no borders between them and a visa to any of the three states allows you to safely move throughout the Baltic. There is a ferry service in the small village of Virtsu on the Estonian coast
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An important event took place in South Korea related to the military history of Russia. During the November visit to this country of Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, the flag of the legendary Russian cruiser Varyag was handed over to him in a solemn atmosphere. The ceremony took place in Seoul at the Russian embassy. Flag with
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On December 4, we must pay tribute to the memory of the Red Army soldiers who were tortured, humiliated, executed, and also deliberately killed by hunger and disease in Polish captivity in 1921-1922. With such a noteworthy and public support initiative, the blogger of “Zhivoy
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69 years ago, on December 5, 1941, the Soviet counter-offensive began near Moscow. This was the beginning of the first strategic offensive of our army in the Great Patriotic War, its first major victory. For the invading enemy, the Germans and their allies, the battle near Moscow was not easy
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Vasily Sergeevich Oshchepkov is rightfully considered one of the founders of the Russian school of martial arts. It was this man who took the first steps to popularize judo in Russia, and was also one of the ideologues of the creation of the most famous Russian type of martial arts - Sambo
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The theme of the history of the Second World War is multifaceted; many books, articles, memoirs and memoirs have been written on this topic. But for a long time, under the influence of ideology, these topics were covered mainly from a political, patriotic or general military point of view, the role of each individual soldier was paid very little
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The great empire of the USSR quietly disappeared and was wiped off the map under the tacit consent of the masses of the lower classes and the rapid repainting of the upper classes. Probably, this is how great states or, as they say now, empires have always collapsed. And only some organisms of a no longer existing system continued
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133 years ago, November 28, Art. style (December 11, new style) in 1877, the siege of the Plevna fortress ended with the victory of Russian arms. The battles for this fortress, which the Turkish troops under the command of Marshal Osman Pasha held for almost five months, became the culmination point of the Russian-Turkish war of 1877–78
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December 7 marks 69 years since Japanese forces attacked the US naval base at Pearl Narbor. In connection with this event, several conspiracy theories appeared, claiming that the US administration knew in advance about the plans of the Japanese, but did not take any action
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Actually, the visit of British Prime Minister David Cameron to Afghanistan on December 6 would not have attracted much attention. It seems that such "unannounced" visits by top officials of states whose military contingents are located in this country are becoming the norm, which is not surprising. Everyone is interested in what is in
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The name of the Russian traveler and naturalist N.M. Przhevalsky, who made an invaluable contribution to the study of the geography of Central Asia, is known to every educated person. At the same time, few people know that all Przewalski's research expeditions were carried out by order of the Ministry of War