Saturday, November 2, 2024

“Schmeisser” against the PCA: which gun shoots better

"Schmeisser" against the PCA: which gun shoots better
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Soviet cinema made the machine a symbol of wartime. The gunmen, wearing black helmets marching on the captured city; the guerrillas, with a characteristic Bang, shot German column.. each image flashes of the legendary "Schmeisser". Machine rooted in the First World war, brought innovative solutions in the development of weapons, but left many questions in history.

What Stalin executed ataman Peter Krasnov in 1946

What Stalin executed ataman Peter Krasnov in 1946
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The survival instinct of any state hostile to traitors. Not escaped this fate and ataman Pyotr Krasnov, however, not all historians put it on a par with the other traitors.

Talks between Wolff and DULLES: did the allies betray the Soviet Union

Talks between Wolff and DULLES: did the allies betray the Soviet Union
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The hero of the novel Juliana Semenova "Seventeen moments of spring" scout Stirlitz has managed to prevent a separate peace between Nazi Germany and the allies. And it's not the author's fiction. The head of the office of strategic services DULLES had actually met with SS-obergruppenführer Wolff. The USSR prior to those talks, was not allowed.

Sergey Kononov: what heroism of the Russian peacekeepers in South Ossetia

Sergey Kononov: what heroism of the Russian peacekeepers in South Ossetia
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This year will mark 10 years since the end of the armed conflict in South Ossetia when Georgian troops by order of the President of Georgia Mikheil Saakashvili attacked the unrecognized Republic. The situation in the region has been tense since the end of 1980-ies due to the fact that South Ossetia declared autonomy from Georgia. All this time, discontent was growing continuously, periodically an outbreak of violence. To prevent bloodshed in Georgia's capital Tskhinval was aimed group of Russian peacekeepers.

Sandarmokh: the worst place to Solovki prisoners

Sandarmokh: the worst place to Solovki prisoners
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In the 1930-ies among Soviet citizens went to a legend that the prisoners of Stalin's camps are loaded into barges, taken to the White sea and just dumped into the water. As you know, any rumors usually have a factual basis. Indeed, Solovki prisoners actually transported on barges, but they were not drowned, but was sent to the last journey in Sandarmokh.