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All this was invented by Churchill On June 22, 1941, a few hours after the invasion of Germany and its satellites in the USSR, at 21:00 GMT, British Prime Minister W. Churchill spoke on BBC radio. … All his usual formalities of treachery were observed with

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Davout was not helped12 by Napoleon Bonaparte's failures. So, by the morning of May 22, Napoleon already had more than 70 thousand people at hand, and the 30-thousandth 3rd corps of Davout was already starting to cross to the island of Lobau. However, the Austrians were the first to attack from the dominant heights of Marchfeld, who almost immediately recaptured

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How they were "chosen" in Ankara The main oil casket of Russia was located behind the Main Caucasian ridge. This is what Winston Churchill called the Baku oil fields back in 1919, when the prospect of their transfer to full British control was more than real. Transcaucasian interest of the West (and behind him and

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He is a Siberian, which means … My father, Tarasov Lev Nikolaevich, is a participant in the Great Patriotic War. He is one of the millions. Originally from Siberia, more precisely, from the village of Verkhne-Rudovskoye, Zhigalovsky district, Irkutsk region. He is a Siberian, but not one of those who were so expected at the front in the difficult 1941 year. And not from

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On the signers and signers In August 1939, the USSR, which at that time had no real allies, practically had no alternative to signing an agreement with Nazi Germany. Before the collapse of Poland, which by all indications were ready to abandon Britain and France and which in no way

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Hands off Jadran On June 11, 1980, just a month after the death of Marshal Josip Broz Tito, the first bell rang about preparing Yugoslavia for disintegration. The leadership of the Union of Communists of Croatia on that day proposed to the Communist Union of the entire Yugoslavia to discuss the expansion of political and

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No reason not to remember And it was created largely on the basis of several publications in social networks. Where emotions and even some stretching are allowed. If only without rudeness. We will consider the victory of "dad" in the presidential elections in Belarus as an excuse. Alexander

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Western media called them simply: Gorby and Chow Under the sounds of the International The execution of two elderly people was the bloody finale of the chess game of "Velvet Revolutions" in Eastern Europe. Romanian "revolutionaries" sacrificed their president exactly 30 years ago, on December 25, 1989

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He again became Bonaparte12 of Napoleon Bonaparte's failures. Opening the campaign in 1814, the 44-year-old emperor suggested to 56-year-old Marshal Augereau, his old comrade in arms, “to try on the boots of 1796” for a reason. In the French campaign, he himself seemed to return to the era of revolutionary wars

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In just ten days, the masters of Paris will no longer be Napoleon's soldiers Where are you, old hussar? 12 Napoleon Bonaparte's failures. On March 14, a message about the Laon victory arrived at the Allied Headquarters in Troyes, where the Russian Emperor Alexander and the Prussian King arrived from Chaumont. Postpone more

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The Schwarzenberg family coat of arms Name and title oblige12 Napoleon Bonaparte's failures. He was two years younger than the French emperor, born in 1771. And he died a year earlier than Napoleon - in 1820. If your surname is Schwarzenberg, then you simply have to take a worthy place in life and do

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Ney's attack at Waterloo. Hood. A.-F. E. Filippoto 12 failures of Napoleon Bonaparte. With each of his next defeat, Napoleon himself left himself less and less chance of rebirth. Or, if you like, to return. Up to 100 days, it was usually the French emperor who rejected any proposals for

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Why did the Decembrists lose? And really, why? After all, the attempted coup, undertaken by the liberal conspirators, seemed to have every chance of success, and no worse than a quarter of a century before

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12 failures of Napoleon Bonaparte. Two centuries after Waterloo and the final collapse of Napoleonic France, the debate continues over who is to be credited for the overall victory. A very special strategic

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Chandler's Lists In modern Napoleonics, lists of military clashes, as well as their participants, compiled, more precisely, meticulously systematized, by the British historian David Chandler are considered classic. He prepared them in parallel with the extensive Napoleonic bibliography, rid of

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As you know, nothing else unites as quickly as a common enemy. Almost immediately after the attack of Hitlerite Germany on the Soviet Union, the Polish government in exile, at the suggestion of British diplomacy, decided to restore relations with the USSR. Already on July 30, 1941, the notorious

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To go to the square at the appointed hour on November 10, 1825, Prince Sergei Petrovich Trubetskoy came to St. Petersburg on vacation from Kiev, where he had served for almost a year. In the capital, he was caught by the news of the death of Alexander I and the resulting excitement among the liberal opposition. Presence in the midst

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Internationalists not by blood, but by spirit It is unlikely that anyone would argue that representatives of national minorities made a contribution to the three Russian revolutions that was absolutely inadequate to the role that was assigned to them in the Russian Empire. And this, in fact, can be understood, besides, one should not forget that everything before

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He was the first to put cannons on carriages In the history of war, Bartolomeo Colleoni went down as the creator of field artillery, the first to put cannons on carriages in an open battle. This condottiere, the son of a condottiere, that is, a mercenary who was treacherously killed after the capture of the castle of Tressa near Milan, became much more famous

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You may not be a Pole When General V. Ivashkevich, who had just led the 3rd Division, admitted to the commander of the 1st Corps of the Polish Army I. Dovbor-Musnitsky that he did not really like Poles, to his surprise, he did not hear any objections. The leaders of the future Polish army were very weak

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Capitulators and fellow travelers After the death of Stalin, the Soviet leadership, up to perestroika, had a craving for strange allies, sometimes completely inexplicable. Only in recent years has it become clear that few of the communist leaders of the countries of Eastern Europe, with whom Khrushchev hugged and kissed

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At the homeland of Ilyich and in the distant Yanan Forgetful recall that April 22 will mark the 150th anniversary of the birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin. In the Ulyanovsk region, unlike the rest of Russia, they plan to celebrate the anniversary of the man who really turned the whole world upside down. Wide and

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A dictatorship is almost always military, and even dictators without a military rank usually rely on the military. Spain, which survived by no means the only dictator, Francisco Franco, is no exception in this regard. But it could have become such if, perhaps, the most

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Comrade Stalin admitted this at the Tehran Conference of 1943, when after the Battle of Kursk no one had any doubts about the coming victory, Stalin found it necessary to declare to the American President Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Churchill that “without American products, the war would be

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Despite the fact that Germany, in accordance with the non-aggression treaty with the USSR and the secret protocol to this treaty (August 23, 1939), pledged not to "enter" Finland as a sphere of influence of the USSR, in fact, the Third Reich supported its future ally in the war against THE USSR. WITH

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Bright August 75th The last month of 1975 drew a strategic line under the period of tightening of the "cold war" and at the same time, as it were, summed up the long-term efforts of the USSR to establish a dialogue with the West. The apotheosis of these trends was the signing on August 1, 1975 in Helsinki by 35 states

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This is what the victory of democracy looked like in August 1991 This text was supposed to be published in August, by the date, but … It was then that the authors managed to find several foreign responses to the well-known events of August 1991 in the USSR. Reviews completely extraordinary, for which the authors decided for a while

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All this was invented by Churchill. Actually, more precisely, legally, the anti-Hitler coalition was formed only on January 1, 1942. However, the three great powers began to interact as true allies much earlier. And this happened even then, when across the ocean, as, indeed, on the Foggy

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Even if it is a dominion All British dominions, including the Commonwealth of Australia, were involved in the provision of military-technical and food assistance to the USSR from Great Britain. It was also humanitarian aid sent as part of allied convoys to the USSR through the Arctic, through the Persian corridor

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Thälmann's case is true The liquidation of the GDR, carried out by the leaders of the USSR, the FRG and the USA under the spectacular cover of the unification of Germany twenty years ago, did not lead to the self-destruction of the communist movement there. Today, few people will remember that the West German Communist Party at certain stages of its

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After all, this is exactly what the great Suvorov taught us. The usual autumn Saturday of 2020 with light hints of rain became not quite usual for the residents of the Nagoryevsky territorial administration of the Pereslavsky district of the Yaroslavl region

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Our border is on the Kursk Bulge! In this year of the 75th anniversary of the Victory, when we again and again remember every single episode of the Great Patriotic War, I would like to once again turn to the summer of 1943. Kursk Bulge. 18 border guards of a platoon under the command of Lieutenant Alexander Romanovsky receive an order

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“I was killed near Tuapse” - this is how the first line of the famous poem by Evgeny Astakhov sounds. It first appeared in the 70s of the last century on the pages of the famous weekly Literaturnaya Rossiya. And there was a man who picked up beautiful music to the sorrowful words

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I will never forget this battle in the southern city of Russia, Stavropol, a grand event took place. A street appeared in the Industrial District, perpetuating the memory of an amazing person - Pavel Buravtsev. About the boy who lived in this world for only 19 years, not only the city itself already knows. But also Russia

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Part 1. Almost Companions-in-arms The Third Call By no means Russian by nationality Stalin and Trotsky - without a doubt, Russian revolutionaries. And everything written by them (and this is, let's say, almost exclusively revolutionary prose) should be included in the asset of Russian literature. Marxist must write

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What Benefits the West Extremes are known to have a tendency to converge. Therefore, it is not surprising, although at first glance it is paradoxical, that in Kosovo, "independent" from Serbia, there has been a street named after Enver Hoxha (1908-1985) - "Albanian Stalin" for five years already. He ruled this country from 1947 to 1985

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Prelude Nikita Khrushchev, who was rather unexpectedly elected first secretary of the CPSU Central Committee after Stalin's death, almost immediately fell under the suspicion of his foreign comrades-in-arms. And not only because of the strange death of Stalin, but also due to the fact that, at his filing, the body of the leader was replaced, which is somehow hastily

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Until the last minute, the Soviet Union in the pre-war years, of course, did not have a market economy, but it had to trade with the West, including Hitler's Germany, according to the laws of the market. For the growing industry and the rise of collective farms, foreign currency was needed. In addition, allied relations with those

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The first essay on the military articles of the classics of the third wave (The Military Prose of Stalin and Trotsky) demanded a continuation, although the topic of war was clearly replaced by a revolutionary topic, which is hardly surprising, since almost every revolution was a consequence of the war. About Russians

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Bucharest and Phnom Penh - together against Moscow On January 14, 1990, the so-called "Council of National Salvation" of Romania discovered in the archives of Nicolae Ceausescu, a conductor (conducător), a draft treaty with Pol Pot Kampuchea. This happened shortly after the execution of the Ceausescu couple. And special