History 2024, November

Hitler's suicide on April 30, 1945 is considered an indisputable fact. However, from time to time, publications appear in which it is argued that the greatest villain of all times and peoples safely escaped death and hid in one of the South American countries, where he died surrounded by his loving wife and

Soviet-Japanese diplomatic relations were restored 57 years ago, and the Russian media often claim that Moscow and Tokyo are still at war. The logic of the authors of such statements is simple and straightforward. Once a peace treaty between the two countries

The black myth about hundreds of thousands and millions of German women raped in 1945 by Soviet soldiers (and representatives of other nations) has recently become part of an anti-Russian and anti-Soviet information campaign. This and other myths contribute to the transformation of the Germans from aggressors into victims

The countries participating in World War II made every effort to win. Many women volunteered for the military or did traditional male work at home, in factories and at the front. Women worked in factories and in government organizations, were active

33 years have passed since the end of Operation Eagle's Claw, but alas, there is still a lot of confusion about this confusing story. The drama in Tehran began on November 4, 1979. A crowd of 400 people claiming to be members of the Organization of Muslim Students - Followers course of Imam Khomeini, attacked

Storming of Koenigsberg. April 7, 1945 On April 7, the 11th Guards Army of Galitsky was to continue a decisive offensive with the aim of splitting the southern part of the Koenigsberg garrison and destroying it piece by piece. The guards were given the task of crossing the Pregel River and moving towards the 43rd Army

Operation plan The rout of the Heilsberg grouping and the reduction of the front line allowed the Soviet command to quickly regroup its forces in the Konigsberg direction. In mid-March, the 50th army of Ozerov was transferred to the Konigsberg direction, by March 25 - the 2nd Guards

Representatives of the Soviet air force made a huge contribution to the defeat of the Nazi invaders. Many pilots gave their lives for the freedom and independence of our Motherland, many became Heroes of the Soviet Union. Some of them forever entered the elite of the Russian Air Force, the famous

On October 12, 1899, the Boer republics of South Africa declared war on Great Britain. So the Second Boer War officially began. As you know, Great Britain has long dreamed of establishing full control over the entire territory of South Africa. Despite the fact that the first to explore the territory

On May 14, 1948, the State of Israel was proclaimed. The often repeated Psalm 137 from the book of the Psalter, compiled during the first Jewish captivity in Babylon (VI century BC), contains the well-known oath: "If I forget you, O Jerusalem, May my right

Guerrilla tactics allowed the Boers to defeat the British, who fought according to the old, already obsolete military canons. The Anglo-Boer War was the first of a new type of conflict. It was there that smokeless powder, shrapnel, machine guns, khaki uniforms and armored trains were first massively used

On September 27, 1942, the German OKM (Oberkommando der Marine), the high command of the Kriegsmarine, received a radiogram from the blockade breaker Tannenfels, reporting that the auxiliary cruiser Stir had sunk as a result of a battle with an "enemy auxiliary cruiser" in the Caribbean. So

Frigatten Captain Theodore Detmers lowered his binoculars in thought. Their enemy - strong, fast and deadly - was slowly ripping open the Pacific waves with a sharp bow, some one and a half kilometers from his ship. Confident in his strength, the enemy carelessly approached the one whom the commander

Operation plan of the 1st Belorussian Front The general plan of the operation of the 1st Belorussian Front under the command of Marshal G.K

Hitler's master plan "Ost" had "respectable" predecessors in imperial Germany In the field of foreign policy, Emperor Nicholas II inherited a difficult legacy. The situation on the world stage was unfavorable for Russia. First of all, in the last decades of the XIX

Tamerlane returned to Samarkand in 1396 and turned his gaze to India. Outwardly, there was no particular reason for the invasion of India. Samarkand was safe. Tamerlane had many worries and was already an elderly person (especially by the standards of that time). However, the Iron Lamer went to fight again. AND

Social networks are full of 25-year-old memories: what would later be called a “coup” caught people suddenly, and few people understood what it was all about. Looking back, we have to state with bitterness - on the one hand, there was an unsuccessful attempt to save the Soviet Union. And on the other side rose

On March 12, 1940, a peace treaty was signed with Finland, which ended the Soviet-Finnish war and ensured an advantageous change of borders. The Soviet-Finnish war of 1939-40 is not considered successful in our history. Indeed, at a superficial glance, it seems that this is precisely a failure - after all, a large

Once here, in Voennoye Obozreniye, reading the article by Vyacheslav Olegovich Shpakovsky, "Voynushka" - the favorite game of Soviet children ", I remembered my childhood, which I spent on Fr. Sakhalin in the military town of the village of Smirnykh. At that distant time, we often climbed the underground passages and trenches of the Japanese who were left with

A letter from a French soldier from Crimea, addressed to a certain Maurice, a friend of the author, in Paris: “Our major says that according to all the rules of military science, it is high time for them (Russian - Yu. D.) to capitulate. For each of their cannons, we have five cannons, for each soldier, ten. You should have seen their guns! Probably have

The West received an asymmetric response for cartoons of Ivan the Terrible With the filing of its overseas owner, sanctions and boycotts are announced, visa restrictions are introduced, assets are frozen, attempts are made to devalue

The Ostrovsky mine layer was born at the Sevastopol Marine Plant. And at the very beginning, he was quite a peaceful cargo-passenger ship. By order of the Sovtorgflot on August 1, 1928, a civil vessel was laid down according to the project of the motor ship "Dolphin". And the name of the future minzag was different

Twenty years ago, on June 12, 1999, Russian peacekeepers, using one battalion, made a rapid 600 km march through Bosnia and Yugoslavia and captured the Slatina airfield in the Kosovar capital of Pristina. The NATO command was simply shocked by the actions of the Russian

Koshechkin Boris Kuzmich - Soviet tankman, officer, participant of the Great Patriotic War. In parts of the Red Army since 1940, he retired with the rank of colonel. During the war, commanded a tank company in the 13th Guards Tank Brigade of the 4th Guards Tank Corps as part of the 60th Army

On a sunny day on July 3, 1941, a Soviet tank slowly entered the city of Minsk, which had been captured by the Nazis for a week. Lonely, already frightened by the Germans, passers-by hurriedly huddled up to the houses - a huge three-turret armored vehicle crawled along the streets of the city, bent with four machine guns

The pilot of the group "Russian Knights" Sergei Eremenko, whose plane crashed today in the Moscow region, did everything to take the car away from residential buildings. But there was not enough time for the bailout. These are the preliminary findings of the investigators working at the crash site

Over the years of the war, many wonderful war correspondents have appeared in Novorossia, through whose eyes we see what is happening there as a chronicle-warning, as something that in the event of the defeat of the Russians in the Donbass could become the future of the entire Russian Federation. One of the most famous and beloved by the people

We present the winners of the competition dedicated to the Defender of the Fatherland Day. Second place. Came to serve as a lieutenant in 1978 in a missile regiment. The regiment was famous (unfortunately, it was). He was the first to take up combat duty in 1976 on the new Pioneer ground mobile complexes. The americans

Friends, there are many museums and memorial complexes in the CIS countries that need restoration and will be glad to receive any help. To unite and coordinate people who are not indifferent to history and remember the feat of the people during the Great Patriotic War, the team of the global initiative

After the referendum and the annexation of Crimea to Russia, the liberal-bourgeois press, on the orders of its leaders, began a new wave of organized ideological attacks on Russian and Soviet spiritual values, on the achievements of the USSR in the struggle for peace and rendering assistance to all progressive forces on the planet

Until the end of his days, the designer of a liquid-jet (rocket) engine for the first fighter-interceptor Valentin Glushko could not forgive Leonid Dushkin for his crime. Nothing is written about this person in the "Red" Encyclopedia of Cosmonautics, edited by the academician

The Tatsinsky raid of Major General Vasily Badanov became one of the most glorious pages of the Great Patriotic War. In December 1942, when the situation at Stalingrad remained very tense, the troops of his 24th Panzer Corps broke through the front and reached the German rear airfield, which

The overwhelming majority of the citizens of our country will answer this question quite predictably - the Soviet Union made a decisive contribution to the victory over fascism. And this is the correct answer. It was the USSR that bore the brunt of the war with Nazi Germany, laying the greatest number of victims on the altar of Victory. But

Everyone knows that the USSR has been going to ruin for a long time. There are many reasons for this - the authoritarianism of the state, monocentrism of decision-making, the inability of the state to satisfy the needs of the population, the constant lag in the standard of living from the developed countries of the West, and by the end, unsuccessful attempts

According to one version, the Romanovs ("Roman") were a project of the Vatican, which, with the help of Poland, put them on the throne of Russia. There is practically no direct evidence, but there are many indirect ones, especially if we analyze their actions. Before them, the Kitezh project was carried out in Russia, which was launched by the elder

This article, written by a veteran of the Great Patriotic War, tells about the acquaintance in the summer of 1943 of Soviet combat pilots with the German Bf-109 fighter of one of the latest modifications. In this article, the author speaks with confidence about the Bf-109K, distinguishing it from the already seen Bf-109G. However, this

The Nazis' plans included a complete solution of the "Russian question". So, in the instructions for the soldiers of the Wehrmacht "Military training in the troops" it was said: "For your personal glory, you must kill exactly 100 Russians … Destroy pity and compassion in yourself, kill every Russian; don't stop - old man

Voennoye Obozreniye continues the cycle of small stories devoted to army terms, including those that were used in the army earlier, and then went out of use. Terms and their origin stories. These terms include, for example, "lyadunka" - a word for the hearing of a modern person

The joint declaration signed on October 19, 1956 by representatives of Moscow and Tokyo in the capital of our Motherland is a rather controversial international agreement. In any case, the debate about whether it was the correct diplomatic move of the Soviet side or was originally

The number of prisoners of war who ended up on the territory of the Soviet Union after the victory of the USSR in the Great Patriotic War is still a subject of controversy among various researchers. Most likely, it is worth starting all the same from the official figures indicated in the statistics of the People's Commissariat