Stalin

Yuri Chekalin06.10.2025

The story of peasant girl Roza Shanina from the Arkhangelsk village of Yedma foreshadowed nothing great. The daughter of a milkmaid and a lumberjack, Rosa grew up in a modest village surrounded by forests. Little did her fellow villagers know that their young Rosa would go on to become known as the “Invisible Terror of […]

Yuri Chekalin28.06.2025

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The commander of the Long-Range Aviation Division Golovanov: “…Stalin called me once and asked about my health. I replied that I couldn’t boast about my health, and the medicines they prescribed me didn’t give any visible improvement. After a short silence, the Supreme Commander said: – Look. I see that the doctors can’t help you. […]

Alexander Palladin08.05.2025

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My great-uncle, Colonel Alexei Afanasyevich Reshetnikov, was wounded twice during the Battle of Moscow. At the end of the war, as Deputy Chief of the Artillery Supply Directorate of the 2nd Belorussian Front, he took part in the largest battles with the Nazis. He was awarded two Orders of the Red Banner, the Order of […]

Yuri Chekalin05.12.2024

Here’s what they write in one of the articles on “MOMENTO”: “Winston Churchill loved Armenian cognac and drank a bottle of the famous “Dvin” every day. One day, the prime minister discovered that “Dvin” had lost its former taste. He expressed his dissatisfaction to Stalin. It turned out that the master Margar Sedrakyan, who was […]

Alexander Palladin06.11.2024

The 40th US President Ronald Reagan was branded Great Communicator. If the USSR had a national leader who deserved such a title it was, no doubt, Joseph Stalin. He recognized the power of PR full well and used it with magnificent dexterity. The military parade at Red Square on November 7th, 1941, is just an […]

Vladimir Morozov03.09.2024

It is not in Russia’s interests to devalue Stalin’s personality. The mythology of Stalin is the central battlefield of ideological platforms wrapped in a historical shell. Representatives of different ideologies argue about nothing more than about Stalin’s open and secret intentions. And if his open intentions are easy to verify from published speeches, works and […]

Andrey Vedyaev03.08.2024

Pavel Mikhailovich Fitin will forever go down in the history of foreign intelligence as the head of the first national intelligence service, created in our country in 1938-1939 through the efforts and genius of the People’s Commissar of Internal Affairs Lavrenty Pavlovich Beria. By the mid-thirties, Soviet intelligence had been captured by international adventurers from […]

Andrey Vedyaev28.07.2024

On the last day of the outgoing year 1900, in the village of Rzhaventsy in the Bessarabian province of the Russian Empire, the most charming and attractive intelligence officer of the 20th century, the “queen of recruitment” Elizaveta Yulievna Zarubina, née Esther Rosenzweig, was born. She penetrated Trotsky’s plans, was a liaison for SS Hauptsturmführer […]

Yuri Chekalin06.07.2024

On November 28, 1943, a meeting of the leaders of three countries — allies in the anti-Hitler coalition — began in Tehran. One of its main participants, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, recalled the Tehran summit, which went down in world history, with such specific humor. “On one side of me, with his paws crossed, […]

Andrey Vedyaev25.04.2024

Olga Chekhova was a film star of the Third Reich and Hitler’s favorite actress. And all these years she was at the forefront of the invisible front, playing a complex and dangerous game against the leaders of the Nazi regime. It’s hard to believe, because she was not included in any foreign or military intelligence […]

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Invisible Terror of East Prussia

Miracles of Vodka

My Platoon of the Immortal Regiment

An Evening of Amazing Stories

Unforgettable Parade

Diplomatic Game of Stalin

Chief of Intelligence

Cherchez la Femme

Tehran-43 or Operation Countenance

Olga Chekhova — the “Queen of the Nazi Reich” and Russian Spy

Japan to keep importing Russian LNG

The Deal of the Century for Trump the Peacemaker

Fasting

The Glory of the World