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Russia will not forgive? 12 failures of Napoleon Bonaparte. The famous Pushkin's "bald dandy" is nothing more than a verdict to the vanity of Alexander Pavlovich. Yes, at the beginning of 1813 he was already trying on the role of a sort of Agamemnon, “the king of kings,” the leader of the anti-Napoleonic coalition. But the Russian regiments are Russian

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The enemy is at the doorstep, Summer 1939. Just recreated, as they say, from a needle, the German Wehrmacht has already concentrated on the borders of Poland. Hitler and his closest entourage, who managed to receive repeated carte blanche from the West both for the restoration of the armed forces and for territorial

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A warrior by vocation The Napoleonic era, an era of almost continuous wars, made famous many generals who fought under the command of the great Corsican or against him, and sometimes on both sides of the front. In this brilliant galaxy, the Austrian Archduke Karl occupies a special place

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In a remote Kazakh corner on August 13, 1969, the PRC, feeling that in order to put Moscow in its place, Western countries would also support Beijing, launched a new provocation on the border with the USSR. In scale, it was almost on a par with Damansky and even surpassed Damansky-2 - a clash near the island

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Straight into the abyss In mid-August 1939, two Polish underground organizations from East Prussia invited the Polish General Staff to carry out a series of acts of sabotage against military and transport facilities throughout the region. Cheeky? Undoubtedly. But what else could you expect from the Poles who were in favor of

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The French, along with all the allies, were beaten by Kutuzov and his army in just one campaign. In the campaign of 1812, Kutuzov did with Napoleon what he was doing back in 1805, hoping to retreat to Bohemia to join the reinforcements of General Buxgewden, and already “there to collect bones

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Where are the Germans? On August 22, 1939, just a day before the signing of the notorious Soviet-German non-aggression pact, Romania opened its border with Poland (330 km). The Polish Embassy in Bucharest was informed at the same time by the Romanian Foreign Ministry about the "high probability of a military invasion by Germany

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12 failures of Napoleon Bonaparte. It would seem that modern historians have come to terms with the fact that the Battle of Borodino ended in victory for Napoleon's Great Army, although it would be more accurate to call it almost a victory. The Russian army did not leave its positions, even if every time and new ones, until this

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From Alaska to the Aleutian Archipelago The proposal of the most practical of the last US presidents, Donald Trump, to buy Greenland, autonomous from Denmark, is a project with a very rich retrospective. In March 1941, US Secretary of State Cordell Hull proposed to the puppet authorities of the occupied

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Antichrist and his friend12 of Napoleon Bonaparte's failures. At the very beginning of negotiations between Alexander I and Napoleon in Tilsit in June 1807, the Russian emperor turned to his French colleague with the words "Sovereign, I hate the British as much as you do!" “In that case,” Napoleon replied

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80 years ago, on September 17, 1939, the Red Army's Liberation Campaign began in Poland, culminating in the annexation of the western regions of Belarus and Ukraine to the USSR. On the eve of this date, the discussion about the causes and consequences of the Soviet invasion revived. Lukash Adamski, Deputy Director of the Center

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The main thing is to outsmart the 12 failures of Napoleon Bonaparte. On the eve of the decisive battle with Napoleon, Russia gave the deceptive impression of a power that was not at all willing and, by and large, not ready for war. At the same time, it is simply amazing how the usually secretive Alexander described in detail the future enemy

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Not aggression, but necessary defense Today, even professional historians prefer not to remember that in September 1939, even the most stubborn anti-communist Winston Churchill did not protest against the Red Army's Liberation campaign in ex-eastern Poland. Moreover, the Soviet and Polish troops

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The French near Kaluga. There is no way back12 Napoleon Bonaparte's failures. Napoleon's stay in the capital clearly dragged on. This is not disputed by any historian. As no one disputes the erroneous calculation of the French emperor to conclude peace with Alexander I. You can as much as you like

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12 failures of Napoleon Bonaparte. No one disputes the fact that the Russians missed Napoleon twice - at Krasnoye and on the Berezina. But if during the last terrible crossing of the French you can still talk about mistakes and miscalculations, then in the battles near Krasny Kutuzov himself purposefully avoided a collision

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12 failures of Napoleon Bonaparte. In French there is such an expression "C'est la bérézina": "This is Berezina." The expression is extremely harsh, almost on a par with traditional French abuse, denoting complete collapse, failure, catastrophe. This autolithograph by V. Adam is considered a classic image

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12 defeats of Napoleon Bonaparte. Finishing the campaign of 1812, the Russians kicked out the remnants of Napoleon's Grand Army not only from Russia, but from the borders of the bastard Grand Duchy of Warsaw. Gathering new forces, up to 17-year-old concripts of future conscription, the French emperor entered a new

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Trends, however, on October 25, 1939, the German authorities announced the creation of a military-police "General Government for the Occupation of Polish Territory" ("Generalgouvernements für die besetzen pollnischen Gebiete"). Its territory was only about 35 percent of that

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The Battle of Hanau was a direct consequence of the "Battle of the Nations" at Leipzig12 of Napoleon Bonaparte's failures. The French did not know such a defeat as at Leipzig. Its scale exceeded all expectations. More than 70 thousand people were killed, wounded, captured or simply fled

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Crossing, still crossing Field Marshal Blucher, having ferried his Silesian army across the Rhine, actually dragged the allied forces into France. But many were beyond the Rhine even before the Prussians. However, it was not immediately necessary to fight again - the opponents preferred to take a break in winter apartments

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One of the most controversial regions for Russia and Turkey, of course, was Persia, in which, in fact, the British expected to become the complete masters. Before the start of the First World War, Persian Azerbaijan was recognized as a territory where the economic interests of the powers collided, and most importantly, it

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Autonomy not just in words However, the first "alphabetical" number, it seems, to a large extent reflects the primacy of autonomy in the degree of loyalty and political

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For centuries, Russia remained Turkey's main geopolitical competitor in both the Balkans and the Caucasus. And this persistent competitor constantly tried to strengthen its positions, first in the North Caucasus, and then in the Transcaucasus and Persia, as well as in the zone adjacent to the Black Sea

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The first patriotic impulse quickly subsided, and the thirst for power, which seized too many Duma members, eventually led to the fact that the Duma turned out to be the most dangerous tribune for the central government. It was from her that the verdict of the Russian Empire was actually sounded

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For almost two and a half centuries, it has been standing over the Neva. The official opening of the monument to Peter the Great by Falcone took place on August 7, 1782. Once upon a time in one of the first days of August, usually the first day off, connoisseurs of antiquity always gathered next to it to celebrate the next

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A little more than a year has passed since the beginning of the war, when the supreme power in Russia lost almost all the levers of control. One of the signs of the crisis in power was the incessant changes in the government, the notorious ministerial leapfrog. And Nicholas II, as many believed then, having assumed the supreme

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Unfortunately, during the video bridge, which took place on the anniversary of the Ribbentrop-Molotov Pact on August 23 at the Rossiya Segodnya Pact, the organizers did not manage to involve its most fierce critics in the discussion. And in general, the 79th anniversary of the signing of the Soviet-German non-aggression pact was marked, perhaps, only by

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In Poland, their national revival is customarily associated with the final defeat in the First World War of Imperial Germany and the patchwork empire of the Habsburgs. But the first real steps towards the restoration of the historical statehood of Poland were made by Russia. Not France and not the United States, and already

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To expel three despots (do not hesitate a day longer!) A. Mitskevich, "Pan Tadeusz" In Krakow, but the Germans were dancing in the hall … The Pole moved his mustache - everyone ran away … only a more or less bad decision”(1). These

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Back in 1883, thirty years before World War II, Otto von Bismarck told Prince Hohenlohe that a war between Russia and Germany would inevitably lead to the creation of an independent Poland. Caricaturists adored him, but for some reason Bismarck's predictions tend to come true, and recipes work. considering such

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The approach of the two empires to the solution of the Polish question was fundamentally different from the German-Prussian course of depolonization. If Austria-Hungary preferred to assimilate the Poles, then Russia - to give them a separate "apartment" like the Finnish. Viennese waltz is danced in Krakow For the Austro-Hungarian Empire

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It is customary to associate the Kholmsk question with the name of Stolypin. However, the very idea of consolidating a significant part of the former Polish territories in the Romanov empire in case the Kingdom fell away arose much earlier, after the first Russian-Polish war of 1830-1831. And according to the old Russian tradition, speech

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“On Ostankino!” When it seemed that one could not count on a successful outcome, the day came on October 3. I don’t remember how I learned that the president’s opponents, who had gathered on Smolenskaya Square, two kilometers from the White House, dispersed the internal troops who were blocking their path

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October 1993 was immediately called "black". The confrontation between the Supreme Soviet and the president and the government ended with the shooting of the "White House" from tank cannons - it looks like the whole autumn of that time was black. In the center of Moscow, not far from the Krasnopresnenskaya metro station, it has been preserved for many years

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Collect the scattered temple of Russian national feeling! Pyotr Stolypin, from a speech in the State Duma on May 5, 1908 The first interim results on the Kholm issue were summed up by the next Special interdepartmental meeting, held in 1902 under the chairmanship of K.P. Pobedonostsev. It

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On the eve of the press center of the MIA "Russia Segodnya" received French guests. They were waiting for the military attaché General Ivan Martin, but he was successfully replaced by the historian Pierre Malinovsky and Marie Bellega, the granddaughter of Fyodor Mamontov, one of the soldiers who fought as part of the Russian expeditionary corps in the French

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The Petrograd sky was cloudy with rain. Blok Stolypin's idea of separating the Kholmsk region nevertheless became a reality, albeit only after the death of the outstanding prime minister, when the real threat of world war was already hanging over the Old World. Soon the Balkans, this powder magazine of Europe, shook two

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Appreciate the regrettable knowledge, child of Europe, who received Gothic cathedrals by will … the works of Descartes, Spinoza and the loud word "honor." popular

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The allies expressed support for Russia without much enthusiasm, the central powers rushed with their own declarations, and the neutrals were even slightly at a loss because of the prospects opening up for them. London, which generously paid for the efforts of the "Russian steam rink", and Paris, which, for fear of

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Maybe China and Albania were right in accusing the Khrushchev leadership of replacing Stalin's ashes after his removal? The first hints of what was done were contained in the comments of the Voice of America, BBC and Radio Liberty back in March-April 1953, and with references to Vasily Stalin, the son of the leader