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HOW WAS THE DECISION TAKEN TO SEND SOVIET TROOPS TO AFGHANISTAN?

12:26 08.12.2022

HOW WAS THE DECISION TAKEN TO SEND SOVIET TROOPS TO AFGHANISTAN?

What was the reason behind the USSR’s longest war? To find it, you’ll have to look long before the Soviet troops were sent to the country. In 1973, Afghanistan’s last king Mohammad Zahir Shah was deposed. His cousin, prince Daoud Khan seized the power and declared the Kingdom of Afghanistan …

COBRAS FUMANTES, OR SMOKING SNAKES, FIGHTING NAZIS

12:25 08.12.2022

COBRAS FUMANTES, OR SMOKING SNAKES, FIGHTING NAZIS

“It’s more likely for a snake to smoke a pipe than for the Brazilian Expeditionary Force to go to the front and fight,” Brazilians used to joke. But it so happened that the military division of Brazil’s Armed Forces did fight on the battlefields of World War II.As if defying …

THE ‘DEFEAT PARADE’ OF GERMAN POWS IN MOSCOW

12:24 08.12.2022

THE ‘DEFEAT PARADE’ OF GERMAN POWS IN MOSCOW

They had planned a victory march on this street leading to the Kremlin.Photo: The Russian State Archive of Socio-Political History, collection 17, registry 125, case 263, p. 47Almost 58,000 German prisoners of war were paraded in the capital city of the USSR on July 17, 1944.Back in the fall of …

HOW UKRAINIAN NATIONALISTS SERVED THE THIRD REICH

12:20 08.12.2022

HOW UKRAINIAN NATIONALISTS SERVED THE THIRD REICH

Once the Great Patriotic War was over, the USSR’s security services got to process a large scope of Nazi intelligence documents and question many German intelligence operatives, thus getting a complete picture of what the OUN-M and OUN-B factions of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN-UPA, banned in Russia) had …

It's raining on Santiago

10:15 29.11.2022

It's raining on Santiago

The famous line which is said to have signaled the start of the military coup in Chile's capital on September 11, 1973, is hardly ever mentioned in any Western sources – however, it is quite popular among historians in the post-Soviet states. The reason is simple: it is the title …

THEY WERE THE FIRST TO GO INTO BATTLE ON JUNE 22, 1941…

11:10 28.11.2022

THEY WERE THE FIRST TO GO INTO BATTLE ON JUNE 22, 1941…

On June 22, 1941, Nazi Germany attacked the Soviet Union at 4 am without a formal declaration of war. It was not just any Sunday – it was All Russian Saints’ Day celebrated by the Russian Orthodox Church. It was also the day the Great Patriotic War began.Units of the …

THE POTSDAM CONFERENCE – RULES OF THE GAME FOR A POST-WAR PEACE

11:08 28.11.2022

THE POTSDAM CONFERENCE – RULES OF THE GAME FOR A POST-WAR PEACE

On July 17, 1945, the city of Potsdam, a historical site just outside of Berlin, hosted the last 'Big Three' conference that brought together the heads of the three largest powers of the Anti-Hitler Coalition, i.e. the USSR, the USA and the UK: Joseph Stalin, Harry Truman and Winston Churchill, …

The First Ever Non-stop Flight Across The North Pole: 85th Anniversary Of Chkalov’s Transpolar Mission

12:32 25.11.2022

The First Ever Non-stop Flight Across The North Pole: 85th Anniversary Of Chkalov’s Transpolar Mission

On June 18, 1937, pilot Valery Chkalov, co-pilot Georgy Baydukov and flight navigator Alexander Belyakov went on an extraordinary mission. They took off in a Tupolev ANT-25 aircraft from the Shchyolkovo airfield near Moscow (today, this airbase is called Chkalovsky after the legendary pilot) and headed towards the North Pole. …

The Piłsudski-Hitler Pact, Or How Poland Tried To Make Friends With The Nazis

12:30 25.11.2022

The Piłsudski-Hitler Pact, Or How Poland Tried To Make Friends With The Nazis

In January 1934, the Polish government displayed unprecedented ‘courage’ by becoming the first European nation to sign a pact with the Third Reich, i.e. the German-Polish declaration of non-aggression, also known as the Piłsudsky-Hitler Pact. It was this ‘act of courage’ by the Poles that effectively prevented France and the …

The Babi Yar Massacre As A Prelude To The Crimes Perpetrated By Ukrainian Nationalists

15:49 21.11.2022

The Babi Yar Massacre As A Prelude To The Crimes Perpetrated By Ukrainian Nationalists

The Great Patriotic War in the Soviet Union saw many tragedies. Among them are the events that took place at Babi Yar, a location near Kiev where the mass murder of civilians started on September 29, 1941. Many historians believe that the Babi Yar massacre marks the beginning of the …

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