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On February 7, 1943, just 19 days after the blockade was broken, the first train from the mainland arrived at the Finlyandsky railway station in the still besieged Leningrad, thanks to the 33-kilometer railway line built in record time
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The unprecedented battle of the Volga, which became a turning point in World War II, ended victoriously on February 2, 1943. Until the end of the battle in Stalingrad, street fighting continued. They took on a fierce character back in September 1942, in the central and northern parts of the city there were
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The fate of Ivan Grigorovich - a naval commander, statesman and minister of the sea in the last government of the Russian Empire - was rough. After his death, he was undeservedly forgotten, almost not remembered all the Soviet years. Ivan Konstantinovich became the naval minister at the age of 57. By then he was
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When all the stars converged If in the 20th century, somewhere there were ideal preconditions for a spectacular and truly large-scale horse raid, then this place was the Don steppes of August 1919. A modern meme about Don - "Lord, how freely!" - appeared for a reason. Smooth as
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Totalitarian nihilism The deeds of Nikita the miracle worker. On January 13, 1960, by a decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, the USSR Ministry of Internal Affairs was abolished. Its main functions (the fight against crime and the protection of public order, the execution of punishments, the leadership of the internal troops
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"Rod" is a Slavic god, the creator of the world and the father of the first generation of light gods. I. Ozhiganov Secrets of the Ancient Rus. In his monograph "By the Roads of the Gods," the historian Yu. D. Petukhov sets out a fundamental discovery that is hushed up in the West and around the world. It lies in the fact that ethnocultural
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Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Army, General P. Wrangel, military chieftains, members of the government of the South of Russia and military Cossack governments. Sevastopol. July 22, 1920 Who overthrew the tsar and destroyed the empire After the collapse of the USSR, the myth was created that the tsarist regime and autocracy were destroyed by the "commissars"
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First of all, I would like to note that in this article we will talk about the USSR as the Russia of those years. It is well known that the West is persistently imposing a myth on us that Russia is supposedly a very young thirty-year-old state, which began zero counting of its history since the 1990s. But this is in
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The beginning of the war, even after almost 80 years, remains a mysterious period in the history of our country. It is difficult for a new generation to discern the truth amid the pile of numerous liberal myths and Western attempts to rewrite history. Therefore, we will repeat in a collective form the stories of military historians about
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The American folk hero's name is John Henry. A big black man who worked on the construction of a railway tunnel in Virginia. Once a black "Stakhanovite" decided to compete in labor productivity with a steam hammer, outstripped the machine, but in the end died of exhaustion. Legend of
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He was the strongest ship in the theater of operations. A lone ghost of the northern seas, whose name terrified opponents: in just the years of the war, Soviet and British pilots flew 700 sorties to the Tirpitz mooring sites. The German battleship for three years pinned the fleet of the metropolis in the North
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At the very moment when the outlines of the island flashed through the breaks of the clouds, 28 heavy-loaded SB bomber with the Chinese Air Force insignia muffled the engines and simultaneously went down. Ahead, on the course, a panorama of Taipei opened, and three kilometers to the north - the peacefully sleeping Matsuyama airfield
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“Today the fate of our country is in my hands. We are the defenders of our country. You can forget me when I am gone, but please live better than you did before. Do not worry and do not be discouraged.”- From the farewell letter of Jr. Lieutenant Shunsuke Tomiyasu. Kamikaze are definitely heroes. Self-sacrifice
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21 aerial victories without a single defeat The achievements of the Sea Harriers in the Falklands War are truly astonishing and admirable. British pilots performed their feats over the ocean, 12 thousand kilometers from their native shores. Taking off from the slippery swaying decks of aircraft carriers, in conditions
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On July 2, 1950, several explosions thundered over the expanses of the Sea of Japan. The episode, which went down in history as the Battle of Chamonchin Chan, was the first time a confrontation at sea between the DPRK and the Allied fleet during the Korean War. As is often the case, both sides adhere strictly
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Khrushchev's first intervention in the country's military affairs dates back to 1954. Returning from a trip to China, the First Secretary inspected the fleet and came to the disappointing conclusion that the Soviet Navy was not capable of openly confronting the fleets of England and the United States. Returning to Moscow, N.S. Khrushchev rejected
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“The experience of the war makes it possible to draw the following conclusion. Each regiment had about 5, maximum - 7 pilots, who shot down much more in air battles than others (they accounted for about half of all downed enemy aircraft) "- G. Zimin. "Tactics in combat examples:
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The first raid on the nuclear center in Al-Tuwaita took place in the afternoon, January 18, 1991. The raid was attended by 32 F-16C aircraft armed with conventional unguided bombs, accompanied by 16 F-15C fighters, four EF-111 jammers, eight F-4G radar hunters and 15 air
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The ending. Beginning - http://topwar.ru/40403-linkor-v-folklendskoy-voyne-mechty-o-proshlom.html A new day - and a new victim. No, he can't just sit there and watch his ships die. It is necessary to take special measures to protect the squadron. The main threat to the British was
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Years and decades will pass, new generations will replace us. But here, at the foot of the majestic Victory Monument, the grandchildren and great-grandchildren of the heroes will come. Flowers and children will be brought here. Here, thinking about the past and dreaming about the future, people will remember those who died defending the eternal flame
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Water and cold. Darkness. And somewhere from above there is a clatter of metal. There is no strength to say: we are here, here … Hope has gone, I'm tired of waiting. The bottomless ocean keeps its secrets securely. Somewhere out there, under the dark arches of the waves lie the wreckage of thousands of ships, each of which has its own unique fate and history of tragic death. V
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On September 2, 1944, the USS Finbeck received an SOS signal from a plane crashed into the ocean. After 4 hours "Finbek" arrived in the area of the disaster and pulled the frightened lanky pilot out of the water. Saved was George Herbert Bush, the future 41st President of the United States
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Big money spoils people, and small money just disfigures. The age-old desire to seem "better than is", aggravated by an acute shortage of funds, sometimes produces completely comical results and is fraught with the most formidable consequences for overly carried away arrogant insolent people. The situation is completely
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Laughter, as you know, prolongs life, and when it comes to Regia Marina Italiana, life is doubled. An explosive mixture of Italian love of life, negligence and slovenliness can turn any useful undertaking into a farce. The Italian Royal Navy is legendary:
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President Clinton wandered in bewilderment through the offices of the White House, unable to look into the harsh faces of the Founding Fathers of the United States. “Son, you’ve been sitting here for a second term, but you haven’t bombed anyone yet,” the statue of George Washington shook its head reproachfully. you tell Congress, the Pentagon and
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History does not know the subjunctive mood - the events that have taken place are firmly imprinted in the memory and give a very specific historical result. Despite heavy losses, Her Majesty's fleet made its way to the Falkland Islands, returning the distant lands to the jurisdiction of the British crown. Old lion
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In the field of creating devices for the destruction of their own kind, people, perhaps, have reached perfection - the entire surface of the planet is dotted with military objects: bases, fortresses, fortifications, missile ranges and coastal artillery batteries … Among them, there are truly enchanting specimens
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The announcement of the start of the attack did not initially evoke any particular impressions. Plymouth had been in the combat zone for the third week already, and the next meeting with the enemy was now perceived as a natural course of events. The main thing is that the baby is not alone today. Abeam "Plymouth" is a modern air defense destroyer
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To the question "What caused Japan's surrender?" there are two popular answers. Option A - the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Option B - Red Army's Manchurian operation. Then the discussion begins: which turned out to be more important - the dropped atomic bombs or the defeat of the Kwantung
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“Tomorrow morning at dawn I’ll become just a flash of light,” 20-year-old Abdullah hummed as he steered his fragile canoe toward “the citadel of crusaders and world Zionism.” packed boat 300
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You can rely on these guys! Submariners achieve success in any situation - "steel wolves" have no equal on the sea, submarines are able to reach any enemy, even where their appearance is considered impossible. Whenever an encounter with an invisible underwater assassin turns around
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The sea is raging! Far to the island of Savo, the Milky Way spreads … On the night of August 9, 1942, a group of samurai circled the island of Savo counterclockwise, killing everyone who met them on the way. The cruisers Astoria, Canberra, Vincennes, Quincy
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"… The Germans sent two machine gunners to take positions behind our backs, and at a considerable distance from each other … I grinned sadly, remembering the propaganda stories about Soviet commissars holding fighters at gunpoint" - recollections of an officer of the Italian Expeditionary Force Eugenio Corti
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The role of Western supplies during the Great Patriotic War is traditionally hushed up in Russian society. So, in the enchanting book of N.A
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Submarine of project 629-A. Maximum immersion depth - 300 m. Armament - 3 ballistic missiles R-21, torpedoes with nuclear warheads. Autonomy is 70 days. Crew - 90 people. The course of trouble … Under cover of darkness in the early morning of February 24, 1968 diesel-electric submarine "K-129"
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The previous article about aviation Lend-Lease caused a heated debate among readers, speculation with numbers and baseless accusations on both sides began again. Today I wanted to return to this topic and, discarding all lyrics, to compare the facts. This time, for an objective assessment, let's try
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The Engineer Dr. Barnes Wallace spent the last peaceful night in his cottage in Effingham, and in the morning, like all British people, he heard Chamberlain's rather strange speech. What can he, the Vickers aircraft designer, do to shorten the war? Original ideas one after another visited his head. Wallace
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Since childhood, like many Soviet teenagers, I liked Soviet science fiction. Naive, from the point of view of 2012, largely utopian, but such kind and enchanting dreams of a wonderful future now remain only in our memories. Among this kaleidoscope of plans, ideas and
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In connection with the anniversary date - 18 years and 7 months - I wanted to talk about the remarkable events of 1993 that took place in the capital of the Somali Republic. "Ranger Day" was a high-profile failure of the international peacekeeping operation in Somalia, hitting the prestige of American forces
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The holiday is over, but we always remember our heroes. A monstrous incident took place on July 13, 1941 in the vicinity of the town of Arctic fox (both the number 13, and the name of the settlement - everything coincided!), Then an excerpt from the order for awarding: