History 2024, November

The presence in Nazi Germany of a large number of various projects of military equipment, unrealized and fantastic, has long been the reason for various speculations. It is to the development of the Germans that the legend of "fu fighters" and other unidentified flying

Painting by B.V. Villevade "An Episode from the Foreign Campaigns of the Russian Army 1813-1814". In the foreground, second from the right, is the Uhlan of the Life Guards Regiment At the turn of the 18th-19th centuries. in Europe, a new type of light cavalry, the lancers, became widespread. Cavalrymen of this kind had a number of important features

Kiska Island and the direction of the landing. Graphic Wikimedia Commons Operation Cottage, carried out by the US armed forces in August 1943, was widely known. Its goal was to liberate Fr. Kiska (Aleutian Islands) from the Japanese invaders. By the time of the American landing

"Shch-317" at the naval parade. Leningrad, 1939. Photo War-book.ruIn 1942, the submarine forces of the Baltic Fleet found themselves in a difficult situation. Entering combat service was hampered by the presence of coastal batteries, minefields, anti-submarine ships and patrol aircraft. However, even in such

And megatons in mind Exactly half a century ago - on March 23, 1971, three 15-kiloton nuclear charges were detonated simultaneously in three underground wells, 127 m deep, between the Kolva and Pechora rivers. Little is written about these explosions and blockbusters are not filmed. Although the harm from them was considerable. And in case

Nikolai Kirillovich Popel (1901-1980), lieutenant general of tank forces (since 1944), was a very outstanding personality. Member of the Civil War and the Soviet-Finnish War, political worker. At the beginning of World War II, the brigade commissar, political commissar of the 8th mechanized corps under

Tank landing on German self-propelled guns StuG III at the beginning of Operation Barbarossa. The war was supposed to be fast and easy, like in Poland or France. The German leadership had absolute confidence in a lightning-fast and crushing victory over Russia. Plan "Fritz" In July 1940 at the General Staff

During the period of the so-called "perestroika", a number of initiative groups and movements appeared in the Soviet Union, which began to engage in the return from oblivion of the names and events that had been erased, it would seem, forever from our history. Of course, many of them could not get around such a topic as the Great

The magnitude of German losses in WWII (and their relationship with the losses of the USSR) is a rather complicated topic. Otherwise, it would have been dismantled and closed long ago, but the number of publications on it is only growing. Particular interest in the topic arose after a series of screeching about it in the media, that is, emotional statements (corpses were filled up, on

“At dawn on July 6, in different sectors of the front, the pilots gathered at the loudspeakers. The Moscow radio station spoke, the announcer was an old acquaintance in his voice - he immediately breathed home, Moscow. The Information Bureau was broadcast. The announcer read a short message about the heroic feat of Captain Gastello. Hundreds

Perhaps the most interesting thing in journalistic practice is to debunk myths. Meticulous and merciless. When it turns out to reveal some socially significant lie, then you rejoice like a child, again and again checking the reliability of all the facts you have accumulated. This time I was extremely interested in

As already mentioned in the first part of the article, the Order of St. George took an exceptional position in the Russian award system and retained it until the end of its existence. Historian E.P. Karnovich wrote that in pre-revolutionary Russia “the appearance in society of the Knight of St. George very often turns

With the outbreak of the First World War, the situation with armored vehicles began to change radically. This was facilitated by the maneuverable nature of the first weeks of battles, as well as a developed road network and a large fleet of vehicles in France and Belgium - it was here that the first armored vehicles appeared in early August

Pacts are in vogue On the eve of World War II, pacts were in vogue. Perhaps the first agreement called the pact was the joint political act of Germany and Japan (Anti-Comintern), signed in November 1936. Then only the civil war broke out in Spain and raised their heads

“Battleship Potemkin” is a historical feature film shot at the first film factory “Goskino” in 1925. The work of the director Sergei Eisenstein has repeatedly and over the years been recognized as the best or one of the best films of all times and peoples according to the polls of critics, filmmakers and

On June 22, 1941, Hitler's troops, as well as units and subunits of the armies of Hitler's Germany's allies, crossed the border of the Soviet Union. The Great Patriotic War began. Meanwhile, even a few years before its start, German propaganda was actively preparing the population of the Third Reich for

Three years ago, Voennoye Obozreniye published the names and surnames of 300 awarded after the events of 1969 on Damansky Island (Damansky. An island that will remain only in our memory). Most of them were border guards, next to whom soldiers fought, as well as civilians

As a rule, such myths are generated by "historians" and other "experts" of the liberal persuasion, who are not fed with bread - let me tell everyone that in that war we won almost "accidentally" and "in spite of", "filled up with corpses", and so on in the same spirit. Stumbling across the vast expanses of the Internet

After the victorious end of the Great Patriotic War with honor and glory, the army of the Soviet Union that won it underwent very serious changes. Let's try to remember exactly how they happened and what each of their several stages was connected with. Carefully studying that difficult time, one cannot help but

In the articles about Stepan Razin and Kondraty Bulavin, a little was said about the Don Cossacks. In some of these articles, Zaporozhye Cossacks were also mentioned. But when and how did these people appear in the southern steppes on the outskirts of the Russian state? Some believe that the Cossacks are descended from

KV-1 tanks on Red Square during the parade on November 7, 1941. In an attempt to rewrite and destroy the true history of Russia and Soviet civilization on the pages of books, on TV and in the information field of the Internet, a myth was formed that Stalin himself planned to attack Third Reich. Ostensibly blow

One quote prompted me to search for real numbers. Strange as it may sound, but these were the words of no one, but the main demon of repression - Adolf Hitler. Compliment from the enemy In one of his interviews on the eve of the final of his last battle with Russia, this openly hostile character noted:

Opium ships off Lindin Island. 1824 year. From a painting by W. Huggins The civilization of marauders As a result of the great geographical "discoveries" and migration flows directed from Europe to America, the modern West was formed - the ethnopolitical unity of Western Europe and America. Western world

Soldiers of the Second Parachute Regiment of the Foreign Legion Currently, the units of the Foreign Legion are considered one of the few combat formations of the French army and NATO, capable of performing assigned tasks without drones, gadgets and powerful air support: as in the good old days

At the leader's dacha - renovation and mixing of eras Approximately halfway between central Sochi and Adler there is a sanatorium "Zelenaya Roscha". Picturesque houses are scattered over the hills, beautiful views of the mountains and the sea. But buses that constantly bring people here do not come here for the sake of these beauties. On the territory of the sanatorium is located

Says sniper, Hero of the Soviet Union, Grigoriev Ilya Leonidovich. The case was in 1943 near Orsha. The title I wore was the most common one - the foreman of the guard, but my position was unique, not stipulated by any regulations: the commander of the sniper movement of the 33rd Army. Arrives to us

Estonia: Russian goats, interfere with fascism! Lithuania: +1 Latvia: +1 Russia: Fuck you … Estonia: Hey, moderator, Russians are swearing! Take action! Russia: Fuck you … EU: Observe the rules of decency! ……. Estonia: Let's remove the monument to the "Warrior", build the Reichstag! Russia: Just try it! Krantik

Once upon a time there was a dog. His name was Kadokhin. Don't ask me how this name came about - I don't know. Kadokhin was a real grandfather - an evil, experienced, strong and daring soldier. It is difficult to say what spoiled his character, whether the hopeless inexperience of young dog service instructors, or age, or

It is difficult to find photographs of this particular short and unsuccessful Vietnam war in 1978. And in general, in the black-and-white mess of the photographic archive of the Indo-Chinese wars, it is difficult to make out who is who. This Vietnamese photo shows how the forgotten battles of early 1978 could have begun in the history of a number of wars

On November 11, Angola celebrates forty years of independence. This African state, located very far from Russia, is nevertheless associated with much in both Soviet and modern Russian history. After all, the very independence of Angola became possible precisely thanks to the political, military

Among the many civil wars that shook the African continent, the war in Angola was one of the most bloody and longest in time. In a military-political confrontation in this African country, rich in natural resources and inhabited by conflicting ethnic

The army, like any other organization, is filled with its own different kinds of traditions, customs and superstitions. Moreover, the more extreme the conditions of service of a particular type of troops, the more diverse they are. You can talk endlessly about the superstitions and customs of aviators, so I will devote a separate topic to this topic

Once my board had a responsible task - a flight to reconnoitre the weather before flights. This meant that at the beginning of the flight day, the squadron commander flies around our air zones, in which the squadron pilots will then perform various tasks. Then the commander makes a decision about

“The collapse of the USSR took place against the background of a general economic, foreign policy and demographic crisis. In 1989, the beginning of the economic crisis in the USSR was officially announced for the first time. A number of interethnic conflicts flared up on the territory of the USSR. The most acute was the year that began in 1988

Abstract: Inspired by watching demonstration performances in one brigade … Due to the rapid development of technical progress and the no less rapid (but very protracted) reform of our valiant Armed Forces, computers began to appear in the army environment. Computers were mainly used in

Reference: Vice-Admiral Radzevsky Gennady Antonovich Born on July 14, 1949 A worker of the Russian Navy, Vice Admiral (1999) Specialist in the field of command and control of formations and formations of heterogeneous forces of the Navy. Born in Porkkala-Udd, Finland. In the Navy since September 1966, in 1971 he graduated from the navigator

The article is fictional … On the eve of the anniversary of the Great Victory, I would like to recall the miracles of the Great Patriotic War. Miracles performed by Soviet soldiers in the name of saving our Motherland. Heroism of the peoples of the Soviet Union, which is "forgotten" to tell or deliberately

What were the Allied tank losses on the French front in World War I? This article is devoted to the topic of losses in offensive battles from German artillery fire from tanks of the main tank powers of the world war, Great Britain and France, in the light of the experience of the First World War. In it

What are windings and why the Russian army had to change shoes on the roads of the Great War "Boots of a Russian soldier" - over the centuries of Russian history, this expression has become almost an idiom. At different times, these boots trampled the streets of Paris, Berlin, Beijing and many other capitals. But for the first world war

The first reliably confirmed test of the steamer took place in July 1783, when the Marquis Claude Geoffroy d'Abban presented the people of France with his Piroscaf, powered by a steam engine that rotates paddle wheels along the sides of the ship. The vessel managed to overcome about 365 m in 15 minutes, after