History 2024, November

Soviet self-propelled guns ISU-152 on Breslau street. With a high degree of probability in the photo ISU-152 from the 349th Guards Heavy Self-Propelled Regiment The last year of the war was an agony for the Third Reich. Realizing the inevitability of defeat and punishment for the crimes committed, the Nazi elite by all means

The commander of the 62nd Army V.I. Chuikov (left) and member of the military council K.A. Gurov during a conversation with the legendary sniper V.G. Zaitsev is considering his rifle 120 years ago, on February 12, 1900, the future legendary commander of the Great Patriotic War, Marshal of the Soviet Union, twice Hero was born

Adolf Hitler speaks at an extraordinary meeting of the Reichstag on September 1, 1939 "Crusade" of the West against Russia. Hitler was well aware of the danger of a war on two fronts. Nevertheless, in the summer of 1941, the Fuhrer went to such a war, leaving behind a battered but not broken England

Submachine gunners of the 3rd Ukrainian Front in street battles for Budapest. January 1945 Agony of the Third Reich. 75 years ago, on February 13, 1945, Soviet troops completed the assault on the capital of Hungary, the city of Budapest. The successful end of the Budapest operation dramatically changed the entire strategic situation in the southern

A column of IS-2 tanks on the march in Eastern Pomerania. 1st Belorussian Front, March 1945 Agony of the Third Reich. 75 years ago, on February 10, 1945, the East Pomeranian strategic operation began. The Soviet armies of Rokossovsky and Zhukov defeated the German army group "Vistula", liberated

M. B. Grekov. Battle of Yegorlykskaya In January - early February 1920, the Red Army tried to "finish off" Denikin's army in the Caucasus. However, she met with fierce resistance and was thrown back. The first attempt to liberate the Caucasus failed. The general situation at the front After the fall of Rostov and

K. Vasiliev. Ilya Muromets and Gol Tavern The fight against drunkenness in Russia has a long history. The first sermon on this topic in Russian history, The Lay of Drunkenness, was composed by Theodosius of the Caves in the 11th century. It said that through the consumption of alcohol, a person drives away the guardian angel from himself and

View from the city hall of Dresden on the ruins of the city after the Anglo-American bombing in February 1945. On the right is the sculpture by August Schreitmüller "Good" 75 years ago, on February 13-15, 1945, the Anglo-American aviation dealt a terrible blow to Dresden. Tens of thousands of people died, old

D. Nalbandyan. For the happiness of the people. Meeting of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the CPSU (b). 1949 Red Emperor. Stalin was building a society of the "golden age" where man was a creator, a creator. Hence his numerous creative projects aimed at the development and prosperity of the Russian state and people

Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin at the Yalta Conference Agony of the Third Reich. 75 years ago, on February 4, 1945, the Yalta Conference of Heads of State of the anti-Hitler coalition opened. The post-war organization of Europe and the world is over. The need for a new conference of great powers

Two soldiers of the Red Army with accordions on a blown up Finnish pillbox in the Summa-Hotinen area. 1940 Winter War. 80 years ago, on February 11, 1940, the troops of the North-Western Front under the command of S. K. Timoshenko began to break through the "Mannerheim Line". Finnish concrete fortifications were destroyed with heavy artillery

Icebreaker "Kozma Minin" with white refugees in Norway 100 years ago, in February 1920, Miller's White Northern Army crashed and ceased to exist. On February 21, the Red Army entered Arkhangelsk. The remnants of the White Guards fled by sea to Norway. General situation In August 1919, the Entente forces

M. M. Semyonov. The sloops "Vostok" and "Mirny" in Antarctica 200 years ago, on January 28 (January 16, old style), 1820, the Russian naval expedition of Lazarev and Bellingshausen discovered Antarctica. This greatest geographical discovery of Russian sailors is kept silent by the entire "world community."

White commander Yakov Aleksandrovich Slashchev 1920 year. At the beginning of 1920, General Slashchev's corps withdrew behind the isthmus and for several months successfully repelled the attacks of the Red Army, preserving the last refuge of the White Army in southern Russia - Crimea. As a result, the Crimean peninsula became the last

"Defense of the Trinity-Sergius Lavra". Painting by S. Miloradovich 410 years ago, in January 1610, the heroic defense of the Trinity-Sergius Monastery was completed. The siege of the monastery by the Polish-Lithuanian troops and the Tushinians lasted almost sixteen months - from September 1608 to January 1610. Enemy

Portrait of I. V. Stalin. Artist B. Karpov The Red Emperor. After the death of Joseph Stalin, several grandiose projects were curtailed that could turn the USSR-Russia into an advanced civilization that outstripped the whole world for many generations. Projects that could create a "golden age" society

Soviet tanks IS-2 of the 75th Guards Heavy Tank Regiment of the 3rd Belorussian Front overcome the rise in East Prussia. January 1945 Agony of the Third Reich. 75 years ago, in January 1945, the East Prussian operation began. The Red Army defeated the powerful East Prussian

T-34 tanks of the 1st Army of the Polish Army during the Warsaw-Poznan offensive 75 years ago, on January 17, 1945, the troops of the 1st Belorussian Front under the command of Marshal Zhukov, including the 1st Army of the Polish Army, liberated the capital of Poland - Warsaw. Town

Lisovchiks - participants of Lisovsky's raid. Painting by Polish artist Y. Kossak On December 11, 1618, in the town of Deulino near the Trinity-Sergius Monastery, an armistice was signed, which suspended the war between Russia and the Commonwealth for 14 years. It was one of the most infamous agreements ever

On horseback, proletarian! Artist A.P. Apsitis. 1919 Trouble. 1920 year. 100 years ago, January 9-10, 1920, the Red Army liberated Rostov. The White Guards suffered a heavy defeat. The Volunteer Corps and the Don Army retreated beyond the Don. General situation at the front during the Red offensive

The last photograph of A. V. Kolchak. 1920: Troubles. 1920 year. 100 years ago, on the night of February 7, 1920, the "Supreme Ruler of All Russia" Admiral Alexander Kolchak and the chairman of his government Viktor Pepelyaev were shot. In liberal Russia, Kolchak was turned into a hero and a martyr who

Residents of Poznan greet Soviet liberation tankers sitting on a heavy IS-2 tank. The 1st Belorussian Front 75 years ago began the Vistula-Oder offensive, one of the most successful and large-scale offensives of the Red Army during the Great Patriotic War. Soviet troops

Ural Cossacks. Hood. Nikolay Samokish 1919 year. The Ural White Army of General V.S.Tolstov died at the end of 1919. The Ural army was pressed against the Caspian Sea. The Urals made the "Death March" - the hardest campaign along the eastern coast of the Caspian Sea to the Alexandrovsky Fort. Ice

40 years ago, on December 25, 1979, the Afghan war began. On this day, the columns of the 40th Combined Arms Army crossed the Afghan border. It was a just and necessary war. The Soviet Union secured its southern borders. However, soon destructive forces took over in the USSR

Jozef Pilsudski in Minsk. 1919 "Crusade" of the West against Russia. No one in Poland removed the slogan of the return of the 1772 borders. The Polish lords wanted to plunge Europe into a big war again. World War I returned statehood to Poland, part of the former lands of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth

Polish 7TP tanks enter the Czech city of Teszyn. How Poland prepared a major war in Europe. The Polish elite, together with Hitler, sentenced Austria and Czechoslovakia to destruction. Poland betrayed France, preventing her from protecting the Austrians and Czechs

The commanding staff of the German police battalion are conferring near the burning village "Crusade" of the West against Russia. On June 22, 1941, all of Europe flooded to our Motherland, but nothing came of it! Why? Russia survived thanks to the Soviet people's power. Transformation of Soviet Russia

Alexander Ilyich Dutov (1879-1921), ataman of the Orenburg Cossacks, commander of the Orenburg army of Smoot. 1919 year. At the end of 1919, the White Orenburg army perished. In December, the Cossacks under the command of Generals Dutov and Bakich made a Hunger March from the combat area near Akmolinsk to

Machine gunners of the SS Cavalry Division are walking along the street of a burnt village in the occupied territory of the USSR. 1943 Germany provided all of Europe with weapons, equipment, ammunition and products. Europe fought against us not only on the labor front. The Nazis created a real

The commanders of the First Cavalry Army of the Red Army K. E. Voroshilov, E. A. Shchadenko, S. M. BudyonnySmuta. 1919 year. 100 years ago, in December 1919, Denikin's armies suffered a heavy defeat. The radical turning point in the war was over. The Red Army liberated the Left Bank Little Russia, Donbass, most of the Don

The last photo of KolchakSmoot. 1919 year. 100 years ago, on December 18, 1919, the Krasnoyarsk operation of the Red Army began. On December 20, Soviet troops liberated Tomsk, on January 7, 1920 - Krasnoyarsk. Irkutsk was captured by the People's Revolutionary Army of the Political Center. January 5, 1920 Kolchak folded

Troubles. 1919 year. 100 years ago, the troops of the Red Southern Front during the Kharkov operation defeated the Belgorod-Kharkov, and then, during the Nezhinsko-Poltava and Kiev operations, the Kiev group of the Volunteer Army. December 12, 1919, the Red Army liberated Kharkov. 16 december red

Troubles. 1919 year. 100 years ago, in December 1919, the Soviet troops of the Southern and Southeastern Fronts inflicted a heavy defeat on the Armed Forces of the South of Russia. Denikin's army left Kharkov and Kiev, and the whites continued their retreat south. The main forces of the Don army were defeated and thrown back for

President of Finland Kyyosti Kallio at the coaxial 7.62-mm anti-aircraft machine gun ITKK 31 VKT Defeat or victory? In Russia, the "democratic community" believes that in the winter of 1939-1940. Finland won a moral, political and even military victory over the Stalinist Soviet Union

In the 1989-1990s. the feat of our people in the Great Patriotic War was dumped in the mud, they tried to deprive them of holiness and meaning. They say, "they fought badly," "they filled up with corpses," "they won in spite of the command and the supreme commander-in-chief." At this time, the "secret" Battle of Rzhev became one of the main

When they try to prove the positiveness of Khrushchev's activities, they recall the resettlement of a mass of disenfranchised workers from barracks and communal apartments to separate apartments. They also add pension reform and certification of peasants. In fact, these are myths created to whitewash Nikita Sergeevich, who

Joseph Stalin at the Potsdam Conference 140 years ago, on December 21, 1879, Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin was born. People's leader, the person who built the Soviet superpower, the supreme commander-in-chief and generalissimo, who won the Second World War and created the nuclear shield and sword of our Motherland

Veles. Painter. I. Ozhiganov Secrets of the Ancient Rus. According to Russian President V.V. Putin, Russians did not appear earlier than the 9th century. n. NS. However, there is another opinion. So, DNA genealogy shows that the ancestors of the Russians were the Aryans, who lived on the Russian Plain already 5-6 thousand years ago

There is a myth that Khrushchev freed millions of innocent prisoners, rehabilitated victims of political repression under Stalin. In fact, this myth has nothing to do with reality. Beria held a large-scale amnesty, and Khrushchev freed mainly Bandera. General situation

Soviet heavy tank T-100 from a special group of heavy tanks on the Karelian Isthmus During the Soviet-Finnish war, the West was preparing a "crusade" against the USSR. England and France were preparing to strike at Russia from the north, from Scandinavia, and south from the Caucasus. War could