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In the XVI century. Western European armor masters reached the pinnacle of their skill. It was at this time that the most famous and richly decorated plate armor was created. Workshops were scattered in many commercial and economic centers of Western Europe: the largest of them are Milan, Augsburg, Nuremberg
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During the Great Patriotic War in the USSR, wholesale prices for weapons and military equipment were constantly decreasing. The director of the financial support department of the Russian Ministry of Defense Yevgeny Pronsky told about this on the air of the radio station Echo of Moscow. He said that in 1941 the T-34 tank cost
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Before starting a detailed conversation about how Stalin received this title and how he treated him, we recall that in world practice, as a rule, it was assigned not to generals, but rather to the most significant statesmen, those who led not only the army, but and the entire warring power in
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Before embarking on explanations, statistics, and so on, let's immediately clarify what is meant. This article examines the losses incurred by the Red Army, the Wehrmacht and the troops of the satellite countries of the Third Reich, as well as the civilian population of the USSR and Germany, only in the period from 06/22/1941
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The strongest link in the fortress of Corregidor was an object located 6.5 kilometers south of the island. It was a real masterpiece of fortification art - Fort DrumAmerican engineers completely tore down the island of El Frail and erected an unsinkable reinforced concrete battleship in its place. Its thickness
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Below are, in my translations, extracts from the military operations logs of the GA Sever from late August to early November 1941, concerning plans for Leningrad. Microfilms with these KTBs are in NARA (T311 Roll 51, Roll 53, Roll 54), I used the scanned materials posted on the site
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Open letter to D. A. Granin Dear Daniil Alexandrovich! I am a sincere and long-term admirer of your work. You command respect not only as the patriarch of Russian literature, but also as a front-line soldier who defended the independence of our country during the Great Patriotic War. Your
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November 5, 1941. The Siberians have been waiting for a breakthrough for a long time. For the command of the German 2nd Panzer Army, a fresh Siberian division, fully equipped, with 40 tanks, transferred from the Far East, literally on the eve of the second general offensive on Moscow, was like a thorn in
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Ending: "Fast Heinz", commander of the 2nd Panzer Army, Colonel General Heinz Guderian, has already rushed away from Dudkino, but the German headquarters remained. On November 28, 1941, German units cleaned the Stalinogorsk boiler from the remaining Siberians and buried them at the military cemetery in Dudkino
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These sculptures can be seen if you walk along the waterfront of Dublin, the capital of Ireland. They appeared here in 1997 and are intended to remind of the terrible misfortune that came to this country in the middle of the 19th century. This trouble has a name - The Great Famine: An Gorta Mor (Irish) or Great Famine
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In this article we will tell you about the end of the great era of filibusters of Tortuga and Port Royal. The resignation and death of Bertrand d'Ogeron Bertrand d'Ogeron, who ruled Tortuga for 10 years and did so much for the prosperity of this island, died in France. This is how the audience saw Bertrand d'Ogerona
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Operation Rolling Thunder, which began on March 2, 1965, by the US Army Air Force is not only significant for being the largest bombing raid they have conducted since the end of World War II. This series of airstrikes, which lasted more than three and a half years, marked a fateful step
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Coal in the port of Hamburg-Süd. 1938 Archival documents sometimes present such amazing findings that they force us to seriously think about some moments in the history of the war. They are usually plain in appearance, but their content is amazing. One of such documents, which is now kept in the Russian State Archive, was
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In the spring of 1399, small Kiev, exhausted by the Horde raids, in just a few weeks turned into a huge, thousands-strong and multilingual camp. Inspired by the victory of the Russians at the Kulikovo field, military squads from all over eastern and central Europe converged here
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It is very sad to note on the anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution that leafy tales about the superiority of tsarist Russia over the USSR have become official ideologemes. This also saddens those who are not even close admirers of the Bolsheviks - just a distortion of historical facts and
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In the modern world, where the whitewashing of the Nazis has become a political trend, it is imperative to publish evidence of their crimes. Surprising as it may be, they often try to reduce the entire storehouse of data on the atrocities of the Nazi fall to the most egregious cases (the blockade of Leningrad
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Perhaps, no one dares to challenge the truth that a person lives in the world around him and learns it exclusively with the help of the senses. As you know, we have five of them. All information coming from our senses enters the "database" of our brain, where it is processed, and
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The Russian army ceased to exist at the end of 1917. She spent four years in the grueling and bloody battles of the First World War. However, the army died not because it was drained of blood by the fighting, but because its gigantic body was undermined by a revolutionary disease
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The Russian Empire, as you know, was the best country in the world, where happy high school students shone with a blush, leaving in the morning to study, pray and dream of giving their lives for the tsar. Of course, there were also small problems (associated with outside influence or with troublemakers, which are always enough), for example
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We once wrote in one of the articles on "VO" about the Perekop-Chongar operation. Now let's focus on one of its elements - the defense of the Perekop Isthmus by the units of the Russian army of P.N. To the right of P. N
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In 1997, Arshaluis Khanzhiyan was awarded the title "Woman of the Year" in the "Life is Fate" nomination. But this award did not affect the life of Arshaluis in any way. She herself did not understand why she was considered a heroine, tk. her oaths of service to herself seemed to be taken for granted, without pretense and
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Trying to keep afloat its illegitimate puppet regime in South Vietnam, the United States in 1961 was forced to dramatically increase the volume of military assistance to the Saigon regime. By that time, the United States still had a lot of mothballed ships and vessels from the Second World War. Since the military
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The attitude towards outer protective clothing in the army is reverent. Still would! After all, it helps to protect from bad weather, and sometimes literally becomes a "mini-house" for a soldier. Even in the "Lay of Igor's Regiment" epancha is mentioned - "Japanese woman": ortmami and Japanese women
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The leader of the Ustasha Anten Pavelic "zigits" against the background of the Croatian flagWe ended the article Croatia under the rule of the Ottoman Empire with a message about the decision of the Entente powers to transfer Croatian lands to the kings of Serbia. But on October 29, 1918 in Ljubljana, the creation of a state was proclaimed, which included Croatia
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From left to right: head. Legal Department of the German Foreign Ministry Friedrich Gauss, Joachim von Ribbentrop, Joseph Stalin and Vyacheslav Molotov during the signing of the pact. Source: Wikimedia Commons Historians and publicists are still arguing about Stalin's behavior on the verge of war. Why did he not heed the warnings of the Western powers and
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Pz.Kpfw.III and Pz.Kpfw.II tanks of the 5th Panzer Division of the African Corps of the Wehrmacht at the parade in Tripoli. March 1941 Crash of the Italian army In December 1940 - January 1941, the British inflicted a terrible defeat on the superior forces of the Italian army in Libya (Operation Compass. Catastrophe
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Place of birth It was the third year of a terrible war, both sides were preparing for one of the key battles of World War II - the Battle of the Kursk Bulge. The opponents were preparing and looking for means capable of ensuring victory and crushing the enemy. For the operation, the Germans concentrated
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To the reader It seems that the introduction to my publications is becoming a kind of trademark. And if earlier it was a small annotation of the article, then in this case it will be in the nature of a warning. The fact is that this article, obviously, will be absolutely uninteresting to those who dislike
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Continuation. The previous part is here: Death from a test tube (part 1) I think it's time to take stock. The confrontation between armor and projectile is a topic as eternal as war itself. Chemical weapons are no exception. For two years of use (1914-1916), it has already evolved from
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Drawing "Above the Black Sea". Soviet cosmonaut and artist Alexei Leonov. The Red Empire In the early 1980s, the Soviet Union seemed like a mighty titan with no weaknesses. It is clear that there were shortcomings and problems, but they seemed small and quite solvable. A world where with delight and
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Who interfered with the Russian TsarOpposition to the autocracy, including the grand dukes, the highest generals, Duma and public figures, industrialists, bankers and the highest hierarchs of the church, itself destroyed the foundations of Russian statehood. The then Russian elite did not at all understand the role that they played
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I think I was not the only one who had a question of this kind: why does the whole world consider Guglielmo Marconi or Nikola Tesla to be the inventor of radio, and we are Alexander Popov? Or why Thomas Edison is considered the inventor of the incandescent lamp, and not Alexander Lodygin, who patented a lamp with incandescent filaments from
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The success of Europeans on the world stage during the Great Geographical Discoveries was not determined by intellectual, cultural, technical superiority or "progressive" social structure. And the weakness or mistakes of other peoples and powers. Also, European predators were distinguished by an unprecedented
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There are only a few days left until the Victory Day parade, which we will hold on June 24. Probably, it is historically correct to hold this parade on the very day when the famous parade of the winners, which became another military award to the front-line soldiers, took place. Not just winners, but war heroes. Let me remind you that in
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Photo phalera.ru - Ilya Grinberg Today I want to tell you about another general, about the Hero of the Soviet Union, Colonel General Nikolai Antoshkin. And I want to start with a quote that I took from the presidential statement
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2020 will undoubtedly go down in human history as the year of the beginning of many changes. Changes in politics, economics, ideology … Over the past years, we have invented too many myths and fairy tales. We began to believe not what we see with our own eyes, but what we are told, written, shown. We
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Anatomy of an Invasion After the collapse of the "socialist community" and the peaceful change of the social system in Eastern European countries, and then the collapse of the Soviet Union, many phenomena in our recent historical past are reassessed, approaches to its key moments are changing. In addition to
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Greetings, friends. I bring to your attention a free arrangement of the beginning of the excellent book by J. Hasek "The Adventures of the Gallant Soldier Schweik". The story does not carry a lot of semantic load and is written just for relaxation. The idea to process comrade Hasek belongs to the reader of the site andrei332809
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In a series of recent world events, when every day, looking at the TV screen or computer monitor, we are waiting for the next news about the war in Ukraine, the next imposition of sanctions against Russia by the United States and its "hangers-on" from the EU, the next world financial crisis, etc. .d., etc., it happens that
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On the eve of May 9, I would like to tell you about the many millions of people who forged the Great Victory. I first learned about him from my grandfather, who fought under his command and remembered him with warmth. A graduate of the Makhachkala Secondary School No. 1, a student of the Grozny Oil Institute, Komsomolets. Shetiel