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In the summer of 1915, perfectly understanding the sad prospect of the loss of Poland, the Russian command again began to create Polish national combat formations. And this time with the inclusion of prisoners. A year and a half later, this in no way prevented Russian politicians from resenting

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Germany and Austria, in an effort to "squeeze" Poland from the Russians, quite quickly went on a serious liberalization of the occupation regime. But this could hardly have pushed the Poles themselves to fight for complete independence, as before, claiming only autonomy. Eager to play on those mistakes

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Is it true that most of the spies are Jews? - Of course, there are Jews among the spies, but there are much more Polish spies. From the front-line conversations of Prince Obolensky, August 1915 In the spring of 1915, Nicholas II went on an inspection trip to the front. Obviously, in a simple visit to the Russian troops

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The other day Warsaw, having essentially kept silent about Kerch, once again voiced threats against the Russian-German Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline. Something similar happened in the late 1930s, especially at the end of that decade. Then a lot in Poland changed with the death of the long-term leader of the country and

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Let the Dombrowski Mazurka burst louder! A. Mitskevich, "Pan Tadeusz" In the summer of 1916, the brilliant victories of the Southwestern Front of General Brusilov put Austria-Hungary on the edge of the abyss. The Germans had to abandon attempts to snatch victory at Verdun and urgently save an ally. But the Russians

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The reaction of the Poles to the proclamation of the Kingdom of Poland by Germany and Austria-Hungary was extremely ambiguous. Surprisingly, even after more than two years of war and a year of complete occupation, Russian supporters in the total population of three parts of the country were still in the majority. Moreover, not

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Plans for the destruction of the USSR, and then Russia, as well as other potentially dangerous states for the United States, were accepted and are in effect without a statute of limitations. Much has been written about them in both print and online sources, but for many years the Russian leadership followed those who rose to power in the USSR after

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In Germany, many wanted to know if the new Polish kingdom would become a reliable ally. Only two comrades-in-arms, Field Marshal Paul von Hindenburg and General Erich von Ludendorff, who did not care at all who to put under arms, had no doubts about this

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It is unlikely that anyone would argue that the current situation in interethnic relations in the North Caucasus is complicated, perhaps more than ever before. However, few people will remember that the origins of countless border disputes, violent conflicts between republics and individual ethnic groups go deep into

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You may not be a cadet … Purishkevich to P. Milyukov, from behind-the-scenes conversations in the State Duma There were many of them not only in the ranks of the Bolsheviks and other left-wing parties, but also among those who "organized" February

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The 60th anniversary of the Cuban Revolution is a unique date not only in Latin American but also in world history. In the conditions of almost half a century of the most severe blockade by the United States, having lost its military and political allies in the person of the USSR and most of the socialist countries, Cuba was able to both survive and develop. Clearly

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The Karachay-Cherkess Republic is another Caucasian autonomy, which is still trying in vain to overcome and forget the difficult legacy of eviction during the Great Patriotic War. However, as it turned out, it is no less difficult to forget the period that is commonly called the "first wave of return"

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The February revolution in Russia became perhaps the most important milestone in the solution of the Polish question. On March 27 (14), 1917, the Petrograd Soviet of Workers 'and Soldiers' Deputies adopted an appeal to the "Polish people", which said that "the democracy of Russia … proclaims that Poland has the right

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The rest of the days, the rest of the blizzards, Destined to the towers in the eighteenth B. Pasternak, "The Kremlin in the Blizzard of 1918" The fact that the victors of October were ready in advance for separate negotiations with Germany and Austria is by no means a proven fact once and for all. For the Bolsheviks themselves, all the famous slogans

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What epithets and nicknames did not endow the Soviet people with Nikita Khrushchev, who, unexpectedly for many, replaced Joseph Stalin himself as the country's leader. "Nikita the Miracle Worker" in this series is perhaps the most affectionate, even complimentary. Many of his miracles, like the "Queen of the Fields" of corn

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The Russian delegation returned to Brest on January 9 (the old calendar still operates in Russia, on which December 27), and it was already headed by Leon Trotsky himself, the people's commissar for foreign affairs, the second person in the red government. All the diplomatic tinsel of instructions he received from the Central Committee and personally from the head of the Council

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February 19 marks the 65th anniversary of the adoption of the epoch-making decision of the first secretary of the CPSU Central Committee Nikita Khrushchev to transfer the Crimean region of the RSFSR to Ukraine. A lot has already been written about this, although not so long ago the topic was decided, if not to hide, then at least not to advertise. However, few

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Long before the recognition of Polish independence, Russia abandoned all attempts to return these imperial territories at least to its zone of influence. However, the Bolsheviks, completely forgetting that every Pole is a master in his soul, for some reason seriously decided that it was possible to make the Polish proletariat happy and the downtrodden

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It all began with the debunking of Stalin's "personality cult". This undertaking by Khrushchev, designed primarily to whitewash him and his closest associates, immediately scared away those who were not going to abandon this inheritance, no matter how terrible it may be. The communists were the first to leave, followed by

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Foolishness done by others does not help us to become smarter. Napoleon Bonaparte, Memorial de Saint-Helene It is not easy to find in history a figure as striking and more controversial than the Emperor Napoleon. Hardly any other of the greats got so much attention, so much enthusiasm and

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The Egyptian expedition occupies a special place in the history of Napoleonic campaigns. This is the only one of the campaigns that the great commander conducted outside of Europe. Next to it, but with a big stretch, you can put only the campaign of 1812. For several months, General Bonaparte's army fought in

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Admiral William Sydney Smith. Fate was pleased to dispose of so that the glory of the first winner of Napoleon, in those years still General Bonaparte, fell to his lot. The life of Sydney Smith was more abrupt than the plot of any adventure novel, which, however, is not surprising for that heroic era. He

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The very first attempt by Hungary to get out of the dictate of the Kremlin threatened not just a repetition of 1919. As an independent power in some way, Hungary found itself on the brink of self-destruction. But all this was prevented, no matter how the anti-Soviets disputed it, it was timely and even a little belated

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It turns out that in the vast expanses of the former Soviet Union after 1961, there are almost no objects named after the Battle of Stalingrad. And if with the cities and streets named after Stalin, the renaming can somehow be understood, then is it really due to the notorious "overcoming

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Memory erosion is an interesting thing. The leaders of the Hungarian Communist Party, who were helped to gain a foothold in power in 1956, primarily by Russian tanks, preferred not to think about it at all. However, their memory denied them even more memories. About who fought for real freedom in Hungary more

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The protagonist of Preussisch Eylau, the first battle that Napoleon could not win, was undoubtedly a Russian soldier. A real professional, whom, since the times of Peter the Great, it was customary not only to teach military affairs for a long time and persistently, but also to feed, dress and shoe, and provide the best

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Among the strategic consequences of Khrushchev's policy should be called the elimination of the military presence of the USSR in almost all countries of the Balkan region - participants in the Warsaw Pact. And this happened even before the resignation of Khrushchev. And it's not just the notorious anti-Stalin decisions of the XX and XXII Congresses

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In the global confrontation with the British Empire, Napoleonic France sooner or later had to solve the problem not only of Russia, but also of Spain and Portugal. Otherwise, the idea of a Continental Blockade, designed to bring proud Albion to its knees, lost all meaning. Russia, after companies 1805 and

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The abdication of Ferdinand, the coronation of King Joseph - Joseph Bonaparte, almost stranger than the coronation of Napoleon himself, and finally, French soldiers at every crossroads. How much more is needed for the guerrilla? “Until now, no one has told you the whole truth. It is true that the Spaniard is not behind me

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Soon after the XX Congress of the CPSU, the desire to get out of the total control of the USSR manifested itself in Romania and even in Bulgaria - countries about whose loyalty Moscow had no doubts. Soon after that memorable party forum in Romania, they took a course of "forcing" Moscow to the conclusion

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Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev is not a general, like the young Stalin or Brezhnev, but only the first secretary of the party Central Committee, who also took the post of chairman of the Union Council of Ministers in the 50s, took up the solution of almost any issue, invariably considering himself an indisputable authority. But regarding the regime

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We defended China The Soviet-Chinese military conflict, which ended on Damansky Island fifty years ago, by the beginning of April 1969, almost escalated into a world war. But the situation on the Far Eastern border with China was resolved through territorial concessions from the Soviet side: de facto

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Yesterday the enemy, today - the ally As you know, after Hitler attacked the Soviet Union, Great Britain immediately made it clear that it would be an ally of the USSR. Not without pressure from Britain and the United States, which had not yet joined the anti-Hitler coalition, promptly spread the practice of the military

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12 Napoleon's failures. Finish in 1808. The emperor still believed that he could solve the Spanish problem with one decisive blow. He had the best of the best Negotiations in Erfurt with Alexander I did not become a triumph for him, but for a while they allowed him not to fear a stab in the back. It could be

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Mediterranean cornerOn June 23, 1939, Turkish troops entered the Alexandretta Sanjak in northwestern Syria. The entire current territory of Syria after the collapse of the Ottoman Empire was at that time under the French mandate from the League of Nations, which meant only a somewhat veiled colonial

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In Beijing, they consulted with the "comrades" On July 14, 1969, the Minister of Defense of the PRC, Lin Biao, at a meeting with the military delegations of the DPRK and Albania, declared his readiness "to teach new lessons to the Soviet revisionists encroaching on the ancestral Chinese territories."

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12 failures of Napoleon Bonaparte. Archduke Karl, who is sometimes called Teshensky, was able to reorganize the semi-migratory army of the Habsburg Empire so quickly that it came as a real surprise to the French emperor. After victories in the campaigns of 1805 and 1806-1807, which Napoleon won

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Either I or he In March 1804, by order of Napoleon, a member of the Bourbon royal family, the Duke of Enghien, was arrested and put on trial. On March 20, a military court accused him of preparing an attempt on the life of Napoleon Bonaparte and sentenced him to death. March 21, the prince of the House of Bourbon, who almost became

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The Marshal has done his job, the Marshal can leave On May 4, 1980, in the surgical clinic of Ljubljana, the capital of socialist Slovenia, Josip Broz Tito died. Among the world leaders, he was one of the oldest, he was supposed to turn 88 that May. Marshal Tito was the founder and permanent head

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Meeting on the Niemen12 Napoleon Bonaparte's failures. On the morning of June 25, 1807, two emperors, Alexander I Romanov and Napoleon I Bonaparte, simultaneously entered the boats and sailed to the raft, anchored in the middle of the Nemunas. Napoleon was the first to board the raft and met Alexander as he emerged from his