History 2024, November

100 years ago, in February 1919, the White Guards defeated the Georgian army. The newly formed Georgian state, created on the ruins of the Russian Empire, was actively expanding its territory at the expense of its neighbors and tried to seize Sochi and Tuapse. However, Denikin's army fought back

The desire of Georgia to expand its territory at the expense of the Sochi District led to a Georgian volunteer war. Georgian troops were defeated, Denikin's army returned Sochi to Russia. The first contacts of the Volunteer Army with Georgia During the campaign of the Taman Army (“Heroic campaign

Andropov was able to determine the moment when the Russian (Soviet) civilization approached the next breakdown, to the point of bifurcation. He noticed the disease, but was unable to find the answer, how to save the USSR-Russia. Andropov's death in early 1984 interrupted an experiment to implement a hidden plan of convergence and

Simultaneously with the offensive of Shatilov's division on Grozny, the troops of Shkuro and Geiman moved to Vladikavkaz. The fierce 10-day battle for Vladikavkaz and the pacification of Ossetia and Ingushetia led to a decisive victory for the White Army in the North Caucasus

The Civil War in Russia was the war between February and October, two revolutionary projects that were extensions of two civilization matrices. It was a war between two civilizational projects - Russian and Western. They were represented by red and white. Gerasimov. For the power of the Soviets. 1957 It was

The death of the 11th Army Most of the defeated 11th Army fled - some to Vladikavkaz, most to Mozdok. To the east, the 12th Army occupied the region of Grozny and Kizlyar, covering the only route of retreat - the Astrakhan tract. In the region of Vladikavkaz, there were also red - the detachments of the North Caucasian

The winter offensive of the Red Army in the North Caucasus ended in complete disaster. The 11th Army was defeated, fell apart, and Denikin's army was able to complete the campaign in the region in its favor

A swift blow from Wrangel's cavalry corps cut through the positions of the 11th Army. The northern group of the Reds retreated beyond the river. Manych and formed the Special Army. The southern group with battles retreated to Mozdok and Vladikavkaz. The remnants of the 3rd Taman Rifle Division fled to the Caspian Sea. 11th Army stopped

The suppression of the anti-Soviet Terek uprising strengthened the position of the Red Army in the North Caucasus. However, in general, the strategic initiative remained with the White Army. In addition, the Soviet troops had a serious logistical problem. After Stavropol was lost and the Reds

In Estonia in the 1930s, the influence of the fascist Vaps movement began to grow rapidly. The League of Veterans of the War of Independence (Vaps) was founded in 1929. The conflict of 1918-1920, when Estonian nationalists and the White Guard Northern Corps (then

In Lithuania, in 1924, the Union of Lithuanian Nationalists (Tautininki) party was created. The union reflected the interests of the big urban and rural bourgeoisie, the landowners. Its leaders, Antanas Smetona and Augustinas Voldemaras, were influential politicians. Smetona was the first president of the Republic of Lithuania (1919

The Baltics have been part of the sphere of influence of Russia since ancient times. The Baltic Sea itself in ancient times was called the Venedian (Varangian). And the Wends - the Wends - the Vandals and the Varangians are the western Slavic-Russian tribes, representatives of the western passionary core of the super-ethnos of the Rus

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"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

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

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