History 2024, November

One of the proofs of the onset of reaction during the reign of Emperor Alexander III is usually called the famous "circular about the cook's children." According to a widespread point of view, this circular contained recommendations for directors of gymnasiums and pro-gymnasiums to filter children when

The victims of the Khrushchev repressions were the large communist party activists. Those who disagreed with the head of the USSR, primarily with regard to the Stalinist legacy and the break with China, were removed from their posts, expelled from the CPSU, and exiled

D. Shmarin. The tragedy of the Crimea. Shooting of white officers in 1920. 1989 The "Red Terror" in the Crimea, abandoned by the troops of Baron P.N. Wrangel, was destined to become a bloody epilogue to the drama of the Civil War in the South of Russia. It is not yet possible to accurately estimate the number of his victims:

In 2004, under Luzhkov, the Moscow Hotel on Manezhnaya Square was demolished for vague reasons. This action was called "reconstruction" by the Moscow authorities. The official version of the reasons for the demolition was an allegedly outdated planning solution (the hotel rooms were too small

There are people who represent an entire era. These are people who achieve truly outstanding success in their professional field, and the results of such work become national and state property. Yes, yes, Russia has national treasures, thank God, not only gas production

Former building of the Reich Ministry of Economics on the Kurfürstendamm in Berlin What do you know about the German order? So I happened to find a document in the RGVA that gave me mixed feelings of amazement, disbelief and amusement. This letter is, more precisely, a copy of the letter. Sender - Reich Ministry of Economics

Parts of the detachment of Lieutenant General N.E. Bredov and refugees awaiting evacuation to Romania near the river. Dniester 1920 year. 100 years ago, in January-February 1920, the Red Army defeated General Schilling's Novorossiysk group and liberated Odessa. Odessa evacuation has become another disaster for

The Russian Tsar Nicholas II from the balcony of the Winter Palace announces the beginning of the war with Germany Another wrong and suicidal war for Russia was the First World War. Where Russia fought for the interests of finance capital, France, England and the United States. The threat of catastrophe Entering the war with Germany

Sailors of the Pacific Fleet are hoisting the flag of the Navy over Port Arthur 75 years ago, on August 8, 1945, the Soviet Union, fulfilling its allied obligations, declared war on Japan. On August 9, 1945, the Red Army began hostilities in Manchuria. Denounced Pact Contrary to Myth

Soldiers of the 150th Idritsa Rifle Division against the background of their assault flag, hoisted on May 1, 1945 over the Reichstag building in Berlin and which later became a state relic of Russia - the Victory Banner Soviet Russia fought a lot, no less than tsarist Russia. However, Stalin's wars were

During the Civil War, the territory of modern Ukraine turned into a battlefield between the most politically polar forces. Supporters of the Ukrainian national statehood from the Petliura Directory and the White Guards of the Volunteer Army A.I. Denikin

The first war years turned out to be incredibly difficult for the entire Soviet Union, including for the army and the rear. It is not easy in 1941-1943. the Soviet militia also had to. Tens of thousands of police officers fought on the front lines - both in the military units of the Red Army and in special units of the NKVD

Fighters "Airacobra" as well as "Hurricanes" with "Tomahawks" were supplied to the USSR by the British. After the Aircobra was removed from service by the RAF in December 1941, they were offered together with the Hurricanes for deliveries to the Soviet Union

What we see today in Ukraine may well be considered the result of long-term, purposeful and well-planned work. Work on the introduction, since the mid-1950s, and even earlier, of nationalists in the highest, middle and lower leadership levels, first in Western Ukraine, and then throughout

Since the mid-1920s. anarchists, like representatives of other political parties and organizations, were deprived of the opportunity to legally operate on the territory of the Soviet Union. Many Russian historians terminated the legal activities of anarchists in the second half of the 1920s

As a child, I heard from my father about that cruel, tragic ending in Sevastopol, the area of the 35th coastal battery and Cape Chersonesos, at the final stage of the defense in early July 1942. He, a young lieutenant, an aircraft mechanic of the Black Sea Fleet Air Force, managed to survive in that “human meat grinder”. He came back and

Source: https: //www.roman-glory.com Skillfully using the image of the defender of Hellenic culture and tradition, maneuvering on the waves of political currents and closely following the crises in the regions, the Pontic king Mithridates VI Eupator absorbed the states of the Black Sea region one after another. Reaching the Bosporus

Konrad Adenauer Many interesting stories from the history of espionage are contained in the latest book "The Power of the Secret Services" (U. Klußmann, E.-M. Schnurr - Die Macht der Geheimdienste), which came out this year in Germany. One of them is about how Soviet intelligence wrote a letter from the former German chancellor

The assault on Warsaw. 1831. German lithographer Georg Benedict WunderKingdom of PolandPolish statehood was liquidated during the three divisions of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth - 1772, 1793 and 1795. The lands of the Commonwealth were divided between three great powers - Russia, Austria and Prussia. Wherein

Red Army soldiers and Czech rebels ride the SU-76M self-propelled guns on the Vltava embankment in Prague An information campaign to distort the true history of World War II in Europe is gaining momentum. In Prague, where they recently decided to remove the monument to Marshal Konev, it was proposed to erect a monument to the traitor general

205 years ago, on March 9, 1814, the famous Little Russian artist and poet Taras Shevchenko was born. He became an iconic figure among the Ukrainian intelligentsia, his image became the banner of aggressive Ukrainian national chauvinism. Although Shevchenko himself never separated the Russians and the Little Russians (the southern part

The text below was compiled by the site "Sputnik and Pgogrom" based on the materials of the messages of the head of the People's Militia of Donbass Igor Strelkov, left by him in 2011-2013. on the forum vikmarkovci.7bb.ru. RUSSIANS, UKRAINIANS (MALORUSS) AND BELARUSIANS ARE THREE BRANCHES OF ONE RUSSIAN PEOPLE. Their task

D. Belyukin. First wave emigrants. “White Russia. Exodus.”Unlearned lessons of the past threaten a lot of blood in the future. The conditional moment of the end of the Civil War in Russia is November 1920. The exodus of Wrangel's army from the Crimea to Constantinople. However, 100 years have passed, several generations have changed, and

On the eve of May 9, I would like to tell you about the many millions of people who forged the Great Victory. I first learned about him from my grandfather, who fought under his command and remembered him with warmth. A graduate of the Makhachkala Secondary School No. 1, a student of the Grozny Oil Institute, Komsomolets. Shetiel

In a series of recent world events, when every day, looking at the TV screen or computer monitor, we are waiting for the next news about the war in Ukraine, the next imposition of sanctions against Russia by the United States and its "hangers-on" from the EU, the next world financial crisis, etc. .d., etc., it happens that

Greetings, friends. I bring to your attention a free arrangement of the beginning of the excellent book by J. Hasek "The Adventures of the Gallant Soldier Schweik". The story does not carry a lot of semantic load and is written just for relaxation. The idea to process comrade Hasek belongs to the reader of the site andrei332809

Anatomy of an Invasion After the collapse of the "socialist community" and the peaceful change of the social system in Eastern European countries, and then the collapse of the Soviet Union, many phenomena in our recent historical past are reassessed, approaches to its key moments are changing. In addition to

2020 will undoubtedly go down in human history as the year of the beginning of many changes. Changes in politics, economics, ideology … Over the past years, we have invented too many myths and fairy tales. We began to believe not what we see with our own eyes, but what we are told, written, shown. We

Photo phalera.ru - Ilya Grinberg Today I want to tell you about another general, about the Hero of the Soviet Union, Colonel General Nikolai Antoshkin. And I want to start with a quote that I took from the presidential statement

There are only a few days left until the Victory Day parade, which we will hold on June 24. Probably, it is historically correct to hold this parade on the very day when the famous parade of the winners, which became another military award to the front-line soldiers, took place. Not just winners, but war heroes. Let me remind you that in

The success of Europeans on the world stage during the Great Geographical Discoveries was not determined by intellectual, cultural, technical superiority or "progressive" social structure. And the weakness or mistakes of other peoples and powers. Also, European predators were distinguished by an unprecedented

I think I was not the only one who had a question of this kind: why does the whole world consider Guglielmo Marconi or Nikola Tesla to be the inventor of radio, and we are Alexander Popov? Or why Thomas Edison is considered the inventor of the incandescent lamp, and not Alexander Lodygin, who patented a lamp with incandescent filaments from

Who interfered with the Russian TsarOpposition to the autocracy, including the grand dukes, the highest generals, Duma and public figures, industrialists, bankers and the highest hierarchs of the church, itself destroyed the foundations of Russian statehood. The then Russian elite did not at all understand the role that they played

Drawing "Above the Black Sea". Soviet cosmonaut and artist Alexei Leonov. The Red Empire In the early 1980s, the Soviet Union seemed like a mighty titan with no weaknesses. It is clear that there were shortcomings and problems, but they seemed small and quite solvable. A world where with delight and

Continuation. The previous part is here: Death from a test tube (part 1) I think it's time to take stock. The confrontation between armor and projectile is a topic as eternal as war itself. Chemical weapons are no exception. For two years of use (1914-1916), it has already evolved from

To the reader It seems that the introduction to my publications is becoming a kind of trademark. And if earlier it was a small annotation of the article, then in this case it will be in the nature of a warning. The fact is that this article, obviously, will be absolutely uninteresting to those who dislike

Place of birth It was the third year of a terrible war, both sides were preparing for one of the key battles of World War II - the Battle of the Kursk Bulge. The opponents were preparing and looking for means capable of ensuring victory and crushing the enemy. For the operation, the Germans concentrated

Pz.Kpfw.III and Pz.Kpfw.II tanks of the 5th Panzer Division of the African Corps of the Wehrmacht at the parade in Tripoli. March 1941 Crash of the Italian army In December 1940 - January 1941, the British inflicted a terrible defeat on the superior forces of the Italian army in Libya (Operation Compass. Catastrophe

From left to right: head. Legal Department of the German Foreign Ministry Friedrich Gauss, Joachim von Ribbentrop, Joseph Stalin and Vyacheslav Molotov during the signing of the pact. Source: Wikimedia Commons Historians and publicists are still arguing about Stalin's behavior on the verge of war. Why did he not heed the warnings of the Western powers and

The leader of the Ustasha Anten Pavelic "zigits" against the background of the Croatian flagWe ended the article Croatia under the rule of the Ottoman Empire with a message about the decision of the Entente powers to transfer Croatian lands to the kings of Serbia. But on October 29, 1918 in Ljubljana, the creation of a state was proclaimed, which included Croatia