History 2024, November

Trying to keep afloat its illegitimate puppet regime in South Vietnam, the United States in 1961 was forced to dramatically increase the volume of military assistance to the Saigon regime. By that time, the United States still had a lot of mothballed ships and vessels from the Second World War. Since the military

In 1997, Arshaluis Khanzhiyan was awarded the title "Woman of the Year" in the "Life is Fate" nomination. But this award did not affect the life of Arshaluis in any way. She herself did not understand why she was considered a heroine, tk. her oaths of service to herself seemed to be taken for granted, without pretense and

We once wrote in one of the articles on "VO" about the Perekop-Chongar operation. Now let's focus on one of its elements - the defense of the Perekop Isthmus by the units of the Russian army of P.N. To the right of P. N

The Russian Empire, as you know, was the best country in the world, where happy high school students shone with a blush, leaving in the morning to study, pray and dream of giving their lives for the tsar. Of course, there were also small problems (associated with outside influence or with troublemakers, which are always enough), for example

The Russian army ceased to exist at the end of 1917. She spent four years in the grueling and bloody battles of the First World War. However, the army died not because it was drained of blood by the fighting, but because its gigantic body was undermined by a revolutionary disease

Perhaps, no one dares to challenge the truth that a person lives in the world around him and learns it exclusively with the help of the senses. As you know, we have five of them. All information coming from our senses enters the "database" of our brain, where it is processed, and

In the modern world, where the whitewashing of the Nazis has become a political trend, it is imperative to publish evidence of their crimes. Surprising as it may be, they often try to reduce the entire storehouse of data on the atrocities of the Nazi fall to the most egregious cases (the blockade of Leningrad

It is very sad to note on the anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution that leafy tales about the superiority of tsarist Russia over the USSR have become official ideologemes. This also saddens those who are not even close admirers of the Bolsheviks - just a distortion of historical facts and

In the spring of 1399, small Kiev, exhausted by the Horde raids, in just a few weeks turned into a huge, thousands-strong and multilingual camp. Inspired by the victory of the Russians at the Kulikovo field, military squads from all over eastern and central Europe converged here

Coal in the port of Hamburg-Süd. 1938 Archival documents sometimes present such amazing findings that they force us to seriously think about some moments in the history of the war. They are usually plain in appearance, but their content is amazing. One of such documents, which is now kept in the Russian State Archive, was

Operation Rolling Thunder, which began on March 2, 1965, by the US Army Air Force is not only significant for being the largest bombing raid they have conducted since the end of World War II. This series of airstrikes, which lasted more than three and a half years, marked a fateful step

In this article we will tell you about the end of the great era of filibusters of Tortuga and Port Royal. The resignation and death of Bertrand d'Ogeron Bertrand d'Ogeron, who ruled Tortuga for 10 years and did so much for the prosperity of this island, died in France. This is how the audience saw Bertrand d'Ogerona

These sculptures can be seen if you walk along the waterfront of Dublin, the capital of Ireland. They appeared here in 1997 and are intended to remind of the terrible misfortune that came to this country in the middle of the 19th century. This trouble has a name - The Great Famine: An Gorta Mor (Irish) or Great Famine

Ending: "Fast Heinz", commander of the 2nd Panzer Army, Colonel General Heinz Guderian, has already rushed away from Dudkino, but the German headquarters remained. On November 28, 1941, German units cleaned the Stalinogorsk boiler from the remaining Siberians and buried them at the military cemetery in Dudkino

November 5, 1941. The Siberians have been waiting for a breakthrough for a long time. For the command of the German 2nd Panzer Army, a fresh Siberian division, fully equipped, with 40 tanks, transferred from the Far East, literally on the eve of the second general offensive on Moscow, was like a thorn in

Open letter to D. A. Granin Dear Daniil Alexandrovich! I am a sincere and long-term admirer of your work. You command respect not only as the patriarch of Russian literature, but also as a front-line soldier who defended the independence of our country during the Great Patriotic War. Your

Below are, in my translations, extracts from the military operations logs of the GA Sever from late August to early November 1941, concerning plans for Leningrad. Microfilms with these KTBs are in NARA (T311 Roll 51, Roll 53, Roll 54), I used the scanned materials posted on the site

The strongest link in the fortress of Corregidor was an object located 6.5 kilometers south of the island. It was a real masterpiece of fortification art - Fort DrumAmerican engineers completely tore down the island of El Frail and erected an unsinkable reinforced concrete battleship in its place. Its thickness

Before embarking on explanations, statistics, and so on, let's immediately clarify what is meant. This article examines the losses incurred by the Red Army, the Wehrmacht and the troops of the satellite countries of the Third Reich, as well as the civilian population of the USSR and Germany, only in the period from 06/22/1941

Before starting a detailed conversation about how Stalin received this title and how he treated him, we recall that in world practice, as a rule, it was assigned not to generals, but rather to the most significant statesmen, those who led not only the army, but and the entire warring power in

During the Great Patriotic War in the USSR, wholesale prices for weapons and military equipment were constantly decreasing. The director of the financial support department of the Russian Ministry of Defense Yevgeny Pronsky told about this on the air of the radio station Echo of Moscow. He said that in 1941 the T-34 tank cost

In the XVI century. Western European armor masters reached the pinnacle of their skill. It was at this time that the most famous and richly decorated plate armor was created. Workshops were scattered in many commercial and economic centers of Western Europe: the largest of them are Milan, Augsburg, Nuremberg

Seventy years ago, the Soviet people were able to defeat a dangerous and very powerful enemy. And practically all Soviet people, all nations and nationalities, all regions of a large country contributed to this. But one cannot but recall the feasible contribution of our allies. No, this article will not be about

After the end of the war, the United States decided to strengthen its position in the European market. To limit the economic opportunities of competitors, the Americans used the issue of the war debts of the former European allies. After the formal entry of the United States into the First World War, they provided the Allies (in

In our age of universal awareness, it is very difficult to find something new about a famous person. Especially if someone has made an effort to properly dip the person in the mud. Or, on the contrary, to clothe an outspoken scoundrel and traitor with a martyr's crown and glorify. And therefore give some

At the end of May 1941 I.F. Kuznetsov reported to the Chief of the General Staff of the Red Army on the completion of the formation of anti-tank brigades and the VDK of the district. At the same time, the commander of the district noted with bitterness that the manning of the airborne units was made from personnel that did not even pass

Shoulder straps of the XIX-XX centuries (1854-1917) Officers and generals overcoat in

In the first article of the series, I tried to give a quantitative assessment of the tank fleet of the Soviet Union at the time of the German attack. Now let's talk about the quality characteristics of the tanks and armored units of the Red Army. How significant it was, and how different the reality was from what

"Sailor Napoleon" When the mutiny of Kerensky and Krasnov broke out, Dybenko found himself in the center of events. That attempt to restore the power of the Provisional Government failed. At two o'clock in the morning, Trotsky, on behalf of the Council of People's Commissars, sent a telegram to Petrograd: “Kerensky's attempt to move counter-revolutionary troops

In the medical unit of the city of Pripyat The first group of victims, as we already know, was taken to the medical unit thirty to forty minutes after the explosion. At the same time, it should be noted all the peculiarity and severity of the situation in the conditions of the nuclear disaster in Chernobyl, when the impact of radiation on human organisms

About the author: Grigory Medvedev is a nuclear specialist who worked at one time at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant and knows it well, personally familiar with all the main participants in the events. Due to his official position, he attended many important meetings on nuclear construction. Right after

In April 1983, I wrote an article on creeping planning in nuclear power construction and offered it to one of the mainstream newspapers. (Creeping planning is when, after the failure of one date for the commissioning of an object, a new date is repeatedly assigned without organizational conclusions regarding

The Dembel chord In April 1987, we, six demobels from the "fifty kopeck", began to make a demob chord. Two fountains were made in the shelf at the entrance to the club (this is a huge aluminum shed). An old cannon was immediately placed on the pedestal, and the stand “The best people

Hazing I myself did not experience bullying as some kind of catastrophe. I quite seriously think that it is good that she is. After all, the "grandfathers" forced us to do the right thing. Usually no one does the right thing all the time, it is very difficult. And then they force you to do everything right! And you just

Captivity We are somehow standing on the next hill. Then one demobilization summons me and says: "Today is a holiday - we have a hundred days before the order" (One hundred days before the order of dismissal. The order was signed annually on March 24 - Ed.) I: "So what?" - "Where is" char "?" (One of the names of cannabis, a drug from

On June 1, 1995, we replenish our ammunition and move to Kirov-Yurt. Ahead is a tank with a mine sweep, then "shilki" (self-propelled anti-aircraft installation. - Ed.) And a battalion column of armored personnel carriers, I - on the head. The task was set to me as follows: the column stops, the battalion turns around, and I storm the skyscraper

Kunar At the end of the summer of 1986 we are told: we are going to Kunar. This is a terrible place, it was there that our entire platoon died before me. They landed from the helicopter in the clearing. Only one guy caught some hooks in the helicopter, and the pilots flew away with him. But it turned out that our people sat in the center of the "spiritual"

Victor Emolkin was born and raised in a remote Mordovian village. Before the army, he barely finished school, worked as a tractor driver on a collective farm, as a turner at a factory. It seemed that he would follow in the footsteps of many of his classmates, most of them drunken at a young age. But urgent service in the Airborne Forces and the war in

The main task of the helicopter pilots of the USSR border troops was fire support and support for the actions of their combat groups on the territory of Afghanistan. Fighting for border guards both began at the end of 1979 and continued until the end of the nineties. About almost unknown episodes of that secret war

The commander of the 370th detachment of the army special forces, Major V.V. Eremeev Recalling the war in Afghanistan, I understand that the officers who were most loyal to the state viewed these events not only from the point of view of their international duty, but also in terms of gaining combat experience. Many officers themselves