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"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

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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

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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."

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Artillerymen of one of the rifle divisions of the 6th Army fire from 45-mm 53-K guns at the enemy stronghold on Gutenberg Strasse in the city of Breslau. 1st Ukrainian Front. March 6, 1945 75 years ago, in February 1945, the Red Army launched the Lower Silesian Offensive. Troops of the 1st

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Handshake between Adolf Hitler and British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain at the Munich Conference ("Munich Agreement") "Crusade" of the West against Russia. The behavior of England and France before and at the outbreak of World War II is difficult to explain. It seems that the British and the French

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Mitrofan Grekov. "Frozen Cossacks of General Pavlov." 1927 100 years ago, in February 1920, the Soviet troops of the Caucasian Front carried out the Tikhoretsk operation and inflicted a heavy defeat on Denikin's army. The White Guard Front collapsed, the remnants of the White troops retreating indiscriminately, which predetermined

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Hood. film "Admiral" of Troubles. 1920 year. 100 years ago, in February 1920, the Great Siberian campaign ended. The remnants of Kolchak's 2nd and 3rd armies made their way to Transbaikalia. They united with the troops of Ataman Semyonov, and the White Far Eastern Army was formed in Chita. Baikal 5-6 February 1920

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Alexey Kivshenko, "War games of the amusing troops of Peter I near the village of Kozhukhovo." 1882 315 years ago, on February 20 (March 3 according to the new style), 1705, the Russian Tsar Peter Alekseevich introduced recruitment, a prototype of universal military service. This system was not invented from a good life. Peter

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"Tachanka". Painting by Mitrofan Grekov, written by him in 1925 1920 year. 100 years ago, in March 1920, the Red Army carried out the Kuban-Novorossiysk operation. Soviet troops of the Caucasian Front completed the defeat of Denikin's army, liberated the Kuban, the Black Sea province and part

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German tanks and self-propelled guns captured by Soviet troops in the city of Szekesfehervar, abandoned due to lack of fuel. March 1945 Agony of the Third Reich. 75 years ago, on March 6, 1945, the Wehrmacht offensive began near Balaton. The last major offensive of the German army in World War II

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Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the USSR, during a conference in San Francisco at which the United Nations was created. September 1945 130 years ago, on March 9, 1890, the future Soviet political and statesman V.M. Molotov was born. Chapter

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Residents of Leningrad greet the tankers of the 20th tank brigade in T-28 tanks returning from the Karelian Isthmus 80 years ago, on March 12, 1940, the Moscow Peace Treaty was signed, which ended the Soviet-Finnish war of 1939-1940. Russia returned part of Karelia and Vyborg, lost in

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Konstantin Ustinovich Chernenko (1911-1985) 35 years ago, on March 10, 1985, Konstantin Ustinovich Chernenko passed away. He made a last and futile attempt to save the USSR. On March 11, Mikhail Gorbachev took over as General Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee. The man who destroyed Soviet civilization

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The current oil crisis repeats the 1985-1986 situation. when the US and Saudi Arabia played against the USSR. A sharp drop in prices for "black gold" dealt a strong blow to the then Russia-USSR. True, the opinion that the oil war destroyed the Soviet Union is wrong. The USSR did not collapse because of the fall

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The captain of the Land of the Soviets is leading us from victory to victory! 1933. B. EfimovA lot of "black myths" were created about the Stalinist USSR, which created negative impressions of the Soviet civilization among people. One of these myths is a lie about the "total nationalization" of the national economy under the USSR and

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Soviet troops in Neisse Agony of the Third Reich. 75 years ago, on March 15, 1945, the Upper Silesian offensive began. The troops of the 1st Ukrainian Front under the command of I.S.Konev eliminated the threat of a German flank counterattack and completed the liberation of the Silesian Industrial

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I. A. Vladimirov. The flight of the bourgeoisie from Novorossiysk. 1920 Troubles. 1920 100 years ago, the Red Army liberated the North Caucasus from the White Guards. On March 17, 1920, the Red Army took Yekaterinodar and Grozny, on March 22 and 24 - Maykop and Vladikavkaz, on March 27 - Novorossiysk. Denikin troops

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Mikhail Gorbachev and Ronald Reagan. Switzerland. 1985 Gorbachev's catastrophy. The question is why Gorbachev and his team were allowed by their actions to first destabilize the USSR and then destroy it. Why the "perestroika" was not stopped. Khrushchev was stopped, they were not allowed to destroy the Union, and

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A. I. Denikin on the day of his resignation from the post of Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of the South of Russia 1920 year. The armed forces of the South of Russia fell. The core of the White forces was evacuated by sea to the Crimea. But throughout the Caucasus, the wreckage of Denikin's army and various autonomous and "green"

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A poster for the film Aurora's salvo (USSR, 1965) The myth of the Aurora salvo was born immediately after the storming of the Winter Palace. However, on October 25, 1917, the palace was fired not by a cruiser, but by the guns of the Peter and Paul Fortress

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Wrangel in Sevastopol. 1920After the loss of the Kuban and the North Caucasus, the remnants of the White Army were concentrated on the Crimean Peninsula. Denikin reorganized the remnants of the army. On April 4, 1920, Denikin appointed Wrangel as commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces of Yugoslavia. Reorganization of the White Army After the loss of the Kuban and

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The figure of Ivan the Great at the Millennium of Russia monument in Veliky Novgorod. At his feet (from left to right), the defeated Lithuanian, Tatar and Livonian On July 14, 1500, the Russian army defeated the Lithuanian troops in the battle on the Vedrosh River. This battle was the culmination of the Russian-Lithuanian War of 1500-1503. Russians

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Soviet tankmen of the 62nd Guards Heavy Tank Regiment in a street battle in Danzig. Mounted on the IS-2 tank, the DShK heavy machine gun is used to destroy enemy soldiers armed with anti-tank grenade launchers. 75 years ago, on March 30, 1945

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A German anti-aircraft gunner covers the troops participating in the Wehrmacht's invasion of Denmark in April 1940 80 years ago, on April 9, 1940, the German invasion of Denmark and Norway began (Danish-Norwegian operation, or Operation Weserubung; Exercises on the Weser, or " Weser maneuvers "). Wehrmacht occupied

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Soviet soldiers are fighting a street fight on the outskirts of Königsberg, Agony of the Third Reich. 75 years ago, on April 6, 1945, the troops of the 3rd Belorussian Front began the assault on Konigsberg. On the fourth day of the operation, the garrison of the most powerful fortress of the Reich surrendered. The defeat of the East Prussian group of the Wehrmacht

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The offensive of the 7th Guards Army 75 years ago, the Red Army stormed the capital of Slovakia. On April 1, 1945, units of the 2nd Ukrainian Front reached the northeastern outskirts of Bratislava. On April 4, our troops completely liberated the Slovak capital. General situation In the spring of 1945, Soviet troops

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The People's Revolutionary Army of the Far Eastern Republic on the streets of Vladivostok. 1922 100 years ago, in April 1920, the Far Eastern Republic (FER) was established. Formally, it was an independent democratic state, but in fact it was a buffer beneficial to Moscow between Soviet Russia and

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Caricature "Real problems begin with" awakening ", 1900 (Russia, England, Germany, Italy, France and Japan are fighting on the body of China. America is watching) Russia and England have no common borders, geographically distant from each other. It would seem that two great powers can be, if not in