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Sven Felix Kellerhoff, a journalist and history editor for the major German newspaper Die Welt, published an article entitled "Victory" for the Red Army, which was in reality a defeat. " Referring to archival documents, the author wrote that the victories of the Red Army in the battle of Prokhorovka were not
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Russian-Turkish war of 1828-1829 190 years ago, in July 1829, the Trans-Balkan campaign of the Russian army under the command of General Diebitsch began. Russian troops unexpectedly overcame the Balkans for the enemy. The Russian army defeated the Turks in the battles at Aidos and Slivno. On August 8, Diebitsch's troops captured
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Russian-Turkish war of 1828-1829 Constantinople-Constantinople was at the feet of the Russian army. The Turks had no more troops. Diebitsch scattered the Turks in Bulgaria, Paskevich - in the Caucasus. The Russian fleet could land troops in the Bosphorus. The Sultan pleaded for peace. Another 2-3 transitions, and Constantinople could become Russian. But
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Troubles. 1919 year. 100 years ago, on July 3, 1919, after the capture of Crimea and Donbass, Kharkov and Tsaritsyn, Denikin set the task of taking Moscow. On July 9, the Central Committee of Lenin's Communist Party put forward the slogan: "All for the fight against Denikin!" The red command is taking emergency measures to strengthen
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75 years ago, in July-August 1944, the Red Army delivered the sixth "Stalinist" blow to the Wehrmacht. During the Lvov-Sandomierz operation, Soviet troops completed the liberation of Western Ukraine, threw the enemy back across the San and Vistula rivers, and created a powerful foothold in the area of the city of Sandomierz. Practically
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Troubles. 1919 year. Simultaneously with the Zlatoust operation of the 5th army, the 2nd and 3rd armies were attacking, striking in the general direction of Yekaterinburg. Two red armies had to solve a difficult task: to defeat the Siberian army, to liberate Perm and Yekaterinburg
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Troubles. 1919 year. 100 years ago, in June-August 1919, the Eastern Front of the Red Army defeated Kolchak's army in the Urals. Soviet troops carried out a number of simultaneous successive operations to restore Soviet power in the Urals. This was a complete defeat of the Kolchakites. Finally lost
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105 years ago, on July 28, 1914, the First World War began. Accusing Belgrade that the Serbs were behind the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand, Austria-Hungary attacked Serbia. Russia announced that it would not allow the occupation of Serbia and began mobilization. On August 1, Germany declared war on Russia. Nicholas II
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Battle for Lviv. During the Lvov-Sandomierz operation, the troops of the 1st Ukrainian Front defeated Army Group Northern Ukraine. Our troops completed the liberation of the Ukrainian SSR, a significant part of Poland, reached the approaches to Czechoslovakia. Captured in the Sandomierz region, a vast
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200 years ago, in July 1819, the First Russian Antarctic Expedition set off from Kronstadt to the shores of Antarctica. Russian sailors became the discoverers of Antarctica, the last sixth continent. This feat was accomplished by the crews of the sloops "Vostok" and "Mirny" led by their commanders Thaddeus
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Troubles. 1919 year. The Battle of Chelyabinsk ended in disaster for Kolchak's army. The defeat was complete. The last reserves of the Kolchakites laid down their heads. Only 15 thousand people were captured. Finally drained of blood, having lost strategic initiative and most of the combat capability, the whites retreated
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For a short time, the revolutionary priest gained immense popularity. Gapon believed that he would become the leader of the revolution. He called on Nicholas II to abdicate and surrender himself to the people's court. Russian priest, politician Georgy Apollonovich Gapon (1870-1906). Portrait of the work of an unknown
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Hungarian campaign. Russia in 1849 saved its mortal enemy. The Habsburg Empire was saved by Russian blood. It is obvious that St. Petersburg did not have to intervene in the completely natural collapse of the Austrian "patchwork" empire. On the contrary, it was necessary to extract from this event political
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165 years ago, in July 1854, the Solovetsky Monastery repelled a pirate raid by the British. The defenders of the Solovetsky Monastery successfully repulsed the attack of two English steam frigates A.E. Munster
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125 years ago, on July 25, 1894, Japan's war against the Qing Empire began. The Japanese fleet attacked the Chinese ships without declaring war. On August 1, the official declaration of war on China followed. The Japanese Empire began a war to capture Korea, which was formally subordinate to the Chinese, and
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Defeat of China. Russia was cleverly framed. They pushed forward and directed at her both the discontent of the Japanese elite, which had previously tried to find a common language with St. Petersburg, and the Japanese popular masses, which were very nationalistic at that time. This will become the foundation for future Russian-Japanese disputes
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Russian-Swedish war of 1788-1790 230 years ago, on July 26, 1789, the Åland naval battle between the Russian and Swedish fleets took place. Tactically, the battle ended in a draw due to the indecision of Admiral Chichagov. Strategically, it was a victory for Russia, the Swedes could not prevent the union of the two
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The beginning of the First World War. Germany made a strategic mistake. In Berlin, it was believed that England would not fight. That Germany is ready for war, while England and France prefer to wait until Russia is combat-ready. In reality, the masters of the West deliberately pitted the Russians and the Germans, and
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Defeat of China. It was a disaster. China lost its fleet and two naval bases: Port Arthur and Weihaiwei, which dominated the sea approaches to the capital province of Zhili and were considered "the keys to the sea gates." At the end of February - March 1895, the Northern Army was defeated
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Russia has given the world a classic example of provocation. The Azef case thundered all over Europe and strongly discredited both the Socialist-Revolutionary Party and the Russian police. A man for over 15 years served as a secret police agent to fight the revolutionary underground and at the same time for over
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230 years ago, on August 1, 1789, the Russian-Austrian troops under the command of Suvorov defeated the Turkish army near Focsani. As a result, the allies thwarted the plan of the Ottoman command to defeat the Austrian and Russian troops separately. The battles of Focsani. A source:
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National Liberation War of Bohdan Khmelnytsky. 370 years ago, in August 1649, the troops of Bohdan Khmelnytsky defeated the Polish army near the town of Zborov. Russian troops could not finish off the Poles because of the treason of the Crimean Tatar Khan. Khmelnytsky was forced to go to Zborovsky
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The British skillfully divided and played off. If Berlin was fooled, they gave hope for neutrality, then Petersburg was encouraged, hinting at help. Thus, the British skillfully led the great powers of Europe into a great war. Berlin was shown a desire for peace. And France and Russia supported, inspired her
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"Although they declared war on us … this does not mean that they will actually fight." Hitler 80 years ago, on September 1-3, 1939, the Second World War began. On September 1, 1939, Nazi Germany attacked Poland. On September 3, England and France declared war on Germany. German tanks
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Victories of the Russian army in the Caucasus. 165 years ago, in August 1854, Russian troops under the command of General Bebutov defeated the Turkish army at the village of Kyuryuk-Dara in the Transcaucasus. The Russian army again thwarted Istanbul's plans to seize the Caucasus
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The campaign of 1853, thanks to the victories of the Russian army at Akhaltsikh and Bashkadyklar, and the fleet at Sinop, brought the Ottoman Empire to the brink of military defeat. The Russian army thwarted the enemy's plans to invade deep into the Russian Caucasus and seized the initiative
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Suvorov's Italian campaign. 220 years ago, on August 15, 1799, the great Russian commander Suvorov defeated the French army at Novi. Russian-Austrian troops could finish off the French army in the Genoa Riviera and create conditions for a campaign in France. However, Vienna did not exclusively use
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260 years ago, in August 1759, the Russian commander General Saltykov at Kunersdorf defeated the troops of the "invincible" Prussian king Frederick the Great. Russian soldiers completely defeated the Prussian army. Prussia was on the verge of surrender, it was saved only by the passivity of Austria, which
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Troubles. 1919 year. 100 years ago, in August 1919, the August counteroffensive of the Southern Front began. The Red Army tried to defeat the main grouping of Denikin's army and liberate the lower reaches of the Don. The main blow from the areas north of Novokhopyorsk and Kamyshin in the general direction to
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100 years ago, on September 5, 1919, the division commander Vasily Ivanovich Chapaev died. Legend and hero of the Civil War, people's commander, self-taught, who was promoted to high command posts thanks to his natural talent. Before the war, Vasily Ivanovich was born on January 28 (February 9), 1887 in
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After the collapse of the USSR, our home-grown fans of the West, considering the Union an "evil empire", began to ascribe all conceivable and inconceivable sins to the Soviet power. In particular, a whole layer of myths was created about the fault of Stalin and the Bolsheviks in unleashing the Second World War. Among these "black myths"
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The battle for Petropavlovsk took place 165 years ago. On September 1 and 5, 1854, Russian soldiers and sailors repelled two assaults by the superior forces of the united Anglo-French squadron with a detachment of marines on board. Defense of Petropavlovsk. Painting by A.P. Bogolyubov The general situation in the Far East
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Russian-Swedish war of 1788-1790 230 years ago, in August 1789, the Russian rowing fleet defeated the Swedes on the roadstead of the fortified city of Rochensalm. This victory was of great importance for the course of the campaign. The loss of rowing and transport fleets forced the Swedish command to abandon the offensive on
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For a long time, historians talked only about the service of the Poles in the armies that fought against Nazi Germany, including Polish formations on the territory of the USSR. This was largely due to the creation of socialist Poland (when it was tacitly decided to forget about the sins of pre-war Poland) and
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The "war on history" continues in Europe. The members of the Prague-6 district council decided to move the last among Prague monuments to Soviet commanders and politicians - Marshal Konev, who liberated the city in 1945. In its place, obviously, a new monument to the liberation of Prague will be erected
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Poland was considered by the Soviet military as one of the main threats to the USSR before World War II, according to unique declassified archival materials published by the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation. Column of Polish artillerymen with 105-mm Schneider cannons, model 1913
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The Polish operation of the Red Army began 80 years ago. The Polish campaign began in the conditions of the death of the Polish state under the blows of the Third Reich. The Soviet Union returned to the state the Western Russian lands seized by Poland during the Soviet-Polish war of 1919-1921. and pushed the border
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Russian-Turkish war of 1828-1829 190 years ago, on September 14, 1829, a peace was signed in Adrianople between Russia and Turkey, which ended the war of 1828-1829. The Russian army won a brilliant victory over the historical enemy, stood at the walls of ancient Constantinople and put the Ottoman Empire on
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On August 26, 1914, the German cruiser Magdeburg undertook another raid operation and ran aground off the coast of Odensholm Island off the northern coast of modern Estonia. Soon the enemy ship was captured by Russian sailors from the approaching cruisers Bogatyr and Pallada. Russians ripped off
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Troubles. 1919 year. The White High Command had two plans to get out of the disaster. The Minister of War, General Budberg, reasonably noted that the bloodless, demoralized units were no longer capable of attacking. He proposed to create a long-term defense on the borders of Tobol and Ishim. Win some time