“Even earlier, Lenin called for turning the imperialist war into a civil war.” First of all, we note that calls and slogans are always specific and aimed at achieving a specific goal. Therefore, some slogans are eternal (for example, “Glory to labor!”), not
When did the Second World War end? (Keistut Zakoretsky. Stalin’s Third World War. Moscow, Yauza-press, 2009) “Whoever hides the past jealously is unlikely to be in harmony with the future” (A. Tvardovsky) With the author of the book “Stalin’s Third World War” Keistut Zakoretsky
After the Great Patriotic War, the mass liberation of Soviet prisoners of war and civilians deported for forced labor in Germany and other countries began. According to Headquarters Directive No. 11,086 of May 11, 1945, for the reception of repatriated
Voronezh province during the First World War. On August 1 (July 19, old style), 1914, Germany declared war on Russia. Thus, our country entered into one of the largest and bloodiest armed conflicts in the history of mankind, which
On August 1, Russia celebrates the Day of Remembrance of Russian soldiers who died in the First World War of 1914-1918. For a long time, the First World War, in which millions of citizens of the Russian Empire died, was undeservedly ignored - during the Soviet period
A very strange monument in front of the entrance to the Imperial Palace of Poznan - a monument to Polish cryptographers, decipherers of the Enigma code. The stela, in the form of an equilateral triangular prism, is 3.10 meters high and is covered with seemingly random sequences of numbers. N
The Second World War was the most brutal and bloody in the history of mankind. It pulled dozens of countries and peoples into its deadly cycle. And, seeing with my own eyes documentary evidence, pictures of the deaths of people, dispassionately recorded by cameras
This fact indicates the density of the fire - one bullet shot through another. A pierced bullet has no traces of rifling, that is, it was not fired, it turns out that the bullet hit the cartridge. Yes, it’s so lucky that it’s so accurate that it didn’t ricochet or slide, but punched through, but this
About the danger of a new world war that could arise as a result of conflicts in the Middle East and the Western Pacific. Western governments, especially the Obama administration, which is advised by Tony Blair, have taken a course towards confrontation.
Choice of strategy Before the war, the Empire of Japan had strong economic (including in the military-technical sphere) and political ties with Germany. However, Japan decided to take the side of the Entente in the First World War. This was dictated by politics