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Today, many admire Brezhnev and his era. They say that Brezhnev was good for everyone, only he did not reach the level of Stalin. In fact, Brezhnev was a product of the system, and the post-Stalinist system excluded the figure of a leader - a leader and a thinker (priest-king) .Stalin set and implemented truly

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220 years ago, on September 21, 1799, Suvorov's Swiss campaign began. The transition of Russian troops under the command of Field Marshal A. V. Suvorov from Italy through the Alps to Switzerland during the war of the 2nd coalition against France. Russian miracle heroes showed courage, endurance and heroism, having made

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100 years ago, in November 1918, Kolchak became the Supreme Ruler of Russia. The military overthrew the "left" Directory and transferred the supreme power to the "Supreme Ruler". The Entente immediately supported the "Omsk coup". Menshevik-Socialist-Revolutionary governments formed in the Volga region, Siberia, the Urals and

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In August-December 1991, the third world war, which the United States and NATO countries, as well as the "fifth column", traitors in the ranks of the Soviet elite, waged against great Russia (USSR), the Russian people, the peoples of the USSR and the socialist camp, ended with the complete defeat of Russia -USSR and complete surrender

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410 years ago, on September 26, 1609, the heroic defense of Smolensk began. The brave people of Smolensk fought until the defensive capabilities were completely depleted and the garrison and the population of the city were almost completely killed. Defense of Smolensk. Artist V. Kireev The 20-month defense of Smolensk had an important political and

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230 years ago, on September 22, 1789, the Russian-Austrian troops under the command of Suvorov utterly defeated the superior forces of the Turkish army on the Rymnik River. The victory of the Russian troops at Rymnik. Colored engraving by H. Schütz. Late 18th century Situation on the Danube Front In the spring of 1789, the Turks began

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Who called the country Persia and why is it called Iran today? Maps of Persia, Afghanistan and Baluchistan, late 19th century Iran or Persia: what is the oldest name? The inhabitants of this country from ancient times called it "the country of the Aryans" (Iran). The ancestors of the Iranians, like the white Indians, came to these lands from

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Finland became part of Russia 210 years ago. In the war of 1808 - 1809. with Sweden, the Russian army utterly defeated the enemy. As a result, Finland became entirely part of the Russian Empire with the rights of autonomy. Monument to Alexander I in the Alexander Garden The Swedish Problem The Russian-Swedish War

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Why did the Russian Empire break down halfway and not complete its "economic miracle"? Why Russia, despite its enormous potential, did not become a leading superpower at the beginning of the 20th century? The most interesting thing is that the sad finale of the Russian Empire was seen by the leading thinkers of that era, regardless

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Russia in the mid-19th century is surprisingly close to us. The crisis of the empire, caused by the raw material nature of the economy, the degeneration of the "elite" and the theft of the bureaucracy, unrest in society. Then they tried to save Russia with great reforms from above. After the defeat in the Crimean (Eastern) War of 1853-1856. Russia

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The era of "great stagnation" in the USSR began when the party elite was scared of the future, scared of its people, their passion, enthusiasm and creativity. Instead of development, the post-Stalinist leadership chose stability and existence. Instead of change - immutability. The Soviet elite no longer

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There is a mythical expression about Stalin: "He took Russia with a plow, but left with an atomic bomb." The very fact of this statement is obvious. This is a reality that most of today's younger generations do not even know about. Indeed, Russia after the First World War, the Civil War (turmoil) and intervention

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75 years ago, on November 28, 1943, the Tehran Conference opened. This was the first meeting of the "Big Three" during the Second World War - the heads of the three great powers of the USSR, the USA and Great Britain: Joseph Stalin, Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Winston Churchill

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100 years ago, in November 1918, the Second Kuban campaign ended. Denikinians, after a series of bloody battles, occupied the Kuban region, the Black Sea region and most of the Stavropol province. The main forces of the Reds in the North Caucasus were defeated in the battles near Armavir and the Stavropol battle. but

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"The communist leaders tell you: do not interfere in our internal affairs, let us choke quietly … And I tell you: please, interfere in our internal affairs more … We ask you to interfere!" This is a quote from A. Solzhenitsyn's speech in Washington on June 30, 1975 in front of the participants

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Old Russia died in the cruel agony of 1914-1920. It was impossible to restore it. The white movement tried to restore the old Russia, without autocracy, but the white project (liberal-bourgeois, pro-Western) failed completely. The people did not accept him, and the whites suffered a terrible

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After Stalin's death, the party leadership did not dare to continue his life's work. The party abandoned its role as the main (conceptual and ideological) force in the development of society, the moral and intellectual leader of Soviet civilization. The party elite preferred the struggle for power and gradually

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400 years ago, on December 11, 1618, in the town of Deulino near the Trinity-Sergius Monastery, an armistice was signed, which suspended the war with Poland for 14 years. The world was bought at a high price - Smolensk, Chernigov and Novgorod-Seversky and other Russian cities ceded to the Poles. In fact it was

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One of the most powerful units of the "fifth column" in the USSR were the Ukrainian Nazis. For the beginning of the German invasion of the USSR, they were preparing a powerful uprising, which was to put an end to Soviet rule in the Ukrainian SSR. In September 1939, Moscow regained the West Russian lands lost after

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230 years ago, on December 17, 1788, the Russian army under the command of Prince Potemkin stormed the Turkish fortress Ochakov on the Black Sea coast near the mouth of the Dnieper. The battle was fierce - the entire Turkish garrison was destroyed. The capture of this strategic fortress allowed Russia to finally

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The Germans used Ukrainian nationalists for the war with the USSR, but did not allow them to create an "independent" Ukraine. Berlin was not going to create an independent Ukraine, it was subject to occupation and had to become part of the German Empire. And ordinary members of the OUN were used as a grassroots occupation

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In the process of maturing and in the course of the troubles itself, religion and the church play a great role. We can see this in the world today, for example, during the war in the Middle East or the confrontation in Little Russia (Ukraine). It is clear that the moment of an acute crisis, religious contradictions always turn out to be

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100 years ago, on the night of December 24-25, 1918, Kolchak's troops, defeating the 3rd Red Army, took Perm. However, the successful offensive of the White Army was stopped by the counterstrike of the 5th Red Army, which on December 31 took Ufa and created a threat to the left wing and rear of the Siberian Army. Situation on the Eastern Front

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The battle for Stavropol became decisive in the fate of the Volunteer Army. It ended with the victory of the volunteers and predetermined the outcome of the military campaign for the North Caucasus in favor of Denikin's army

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100 years ago, in January 1919, an agreement on unification was signed between the Volunteer Army under the command of General Denikin and the Don Army under the command of Ataman Krasnov. This was one of the most important events in the history of the White movement. Thus, the Armed Forces were created for

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In his article, the author of the newspaper Die Welt, Sven Kellerhoff, writes that "in fact, the SS men fought badly." After 1945, a myth was created about the SS troops, which in words won more victories than in deeds. SS (German SS, abbr. From German Schutzstaffel - "guard detachments") were created in 1923-1925. as a personal

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Capitalism is disgusting. It carries only war, hypocrisy and rivalry. Fidel Castro 60 years ago, in January 1959, the Cuban revolution ended. In Cuba, the pro-American Batista regime was overthrown. The formation of a socialist state, headed by Fidel Castro, began. Prerequisites

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100 years ago, in January 1919, the restoration of Soviet power in Ukraine began. On January 3, the Red Army liberated Kharkov, on February 5 - Kiev, on March 10, 1919 - the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic was established with the capital in Kharkov. By May, Soviet troops controlled almost

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100 years ago, on January 15, 1919, the head of the German Communist Party Karl Liebknecht was assassinated. In early 1919, he led an uprising against the Social Democratic government of Germany. The rebels wanted to establish Soviet power in Germany, so the leadership of the Social Democratic

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210 years ago, on January 14, 1809, Nikolai Petrovich Sheremetev, a major philanthropist, patron of arts and millionaire, died. He was the most prominent figure in the famous Sheremetev family. According to the school course in the history of Russia, the count is known for the fact that, contrary to the moral foundations of his time, he married

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460 years ago, on January 17, 1559, Russian troops led by voivode Vasily Serebryany-Obolensky destroyed a detachment of the Livonian Order under the command of von Völkerzam in the Battle of Tyrzen

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75 years ago, on January 24, 1944, the Korsun-Shevchenko operation of the Red Army began. Soviet troops surrounded and destroyed the Korsun-Shevchenko group of the Wehrmacht. On the eve, the time of impressive successes of the German armed forces is in the past. In 1943, there was a fundamental change in the course of

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70 years ago, on January 18, 1949, a protocol on the establishment of the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance (CMEA) was signed in Moscow. Stalin responded to the neo-colonial Marshall Plan leading to the economic enslavement of Europe, and in the early years after World War II, the Soviet Union provided unprecedented assistance

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The collapse of the Petliura regime and the chieftaincy (the power of the field commanders and their bands) almost immediately provoked local resistance directed against the Directory and the political camp of the UPR as a whole. Trouble in Little Russia flared up with renewed vigor. The Directory and its defeat Having seized power, the Directory

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Detachments of local chieftains one after another went over to the side of the Red Army. Socialist ideas were more popular than nationalist ones. In addition, the warlords supported the strong side, not wanting to remain in the losers' camp

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During the January-February offensive of the Soviet army, conditions were created for the complete expulsion of the German invaders from the Ukraine and Crimea. generals

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50 years ago, on January 22, 1969, there was an attempt on the life of Leonid Brezhnev, General Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee. On this day in Moscow, preparations were made for a solemn meeting of the crews of the Soyuz-4 and Soyuz-5 spacecraft. At the entrance of cars into the Kremlin, they were fired upon by the junior lieutenant of the Soviet army Viktor

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100 years ago, in January 1919, the Soviet-Polish war of 1919-1921 began. Poland, which gained independence during the collapse of the Russian Empire, laid claim to Western Russian lands - White Russia and Little Russia, Lithuania. The Polish elite planned to restore the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth within the borders of 1772

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Marshal G.K. Zhukov takes the Victory Parade in Moscow In the course of rewriting the history of the Great Patriotic War, Georgy Konstantinovich Zhukov became one of the main targets for liberals and revisionist researchers. He is called the "Stalinist butcher", accused of unprofessionalism, tyranny

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100 years ago, in February 1919, the battle for the North Caucasus ended. Denikin's army defeated the 11th Red Army and captured most of the North Caucasus. After completing the campaign in the North Caucasus, the whites began to transfer troops to the Don and Donbass. Prehistory October - November 1918 white