Sunday, November 17, 2024

“A drunken leader”: how many times drunk Stalin

"A drunken leader": how many times drunk Stalin
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According to the recollections of staff personal protection of Stalin, Nikolai Vlasik and Alexei Rybin, "father of Nations" is almost never used alcohol. And if that happened, then Stalin preferred spirits of wine. However, the leader still had to watch it in "weightlessness". The first time it happened at the celebration of the birthday of commander Sergei Shtemenko, and the second – in the Wake of Secretary of the Central Committee Andrei Zhdanov.

“Hunter”: how to fly a unique Russian drone

"Hunter": how to fly a unique Russian drone
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Some call drone (UAV) "Hunter" breakthrough design group "Dry", someone puts his fighting qualities into question. But those and others agree: new Russian design is extremely interested in how the RF Ministry of defense and Western aircraft designers (and not just them alone).

What good did the Ukrainians for the Russians after the time of troubles

What good did the Ukrainians for the Russians after the time of troubles
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Wars often lead to increased cultural contacts. Was no exception and the time of Troubles the Moscow state. After it has significantly increased cultural ties Moscow Russia, on the one hand, and Ukraine and Belarus were part of the Commonwealth. Western Europe was part of Russia through Poland. Military system, the formation of the Polish-Lithuanian nobility of the Belarusian-Ukrainian origin caused Moscow nobility an involuntary desire to emulate them. Recognizing the cultural superiority of Kievan Russia over Moscow affected in such cases, where great Russians before fiercely defended their ethnic identity in matters of faith. Ukrainians and Belarusians professed the same Orthodox faith, but their views on religious matters were wider, they were not afraid to engage in religious disputes with Polish Catholics and adherents of Lutheranism. They were notable for their comparative erudition, and it was clear, because in the Belarusian-Ukrainian lands not only home education has evolved, but were created educational institutions that tried to compete with the Catholic, heavily used at that time in the Commonwealth by the Jesuits. Orthodox educational institutions were also created under the patronage of wealthy nobles (Polish state patronized only Jesuit collegiums), but chipped Orthodox brotherhoods of the cities of Lvov and Vilna. These brotherhoods were learning to defend their positions in public religious and political disputes with the Catholics. The printing of Orthodox brotherhoods (Lviv, for example) was a source of distribution of printed Orthodox books and in the Moscow state. In General, all boiled down to the fact that Muscovy, realizing after the time of Troubles, its lack of competitiveness on the basis of grammar, rhetoric, political and military Sciences, appealed to the Orthodox lands of Ukraine and Belarus as the source of knowledge. And this, in turn, opened the way to Russia to speakers of Ukrainian and Belarusian literature, their influence on youschie spheres of society of the Moscow state.[C-BLOCK]

“The plan Nero”, why Hitler wanted a genocide of the Germans

"The plan Nero", why Hitler wanted a genocide of the Germans
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March 19, 1945 Hitler issued an order called "the Plan Nero". He meant the destruction in the Reich of strategic facilities, food warehouses, cultural values. The continued existence of the German nation was put into question.

5 cases of human survival in extreme conditions

5 cases of human survival in extreme conditions
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Survival in extreme situations requires endurance and unwavering faith in the fact that there are no hopeless situations. We have gathered 5 of the stories, the heroes managed to survive in the toughest conditions.