WWII

Egor Yakovlev27.02.2026

Who was Red Army soldier Matrosov and how did he perform his heroic act? On February 27, 1943, Private Alexander Matrosov, in a battle near the village of Chernushki in the Loknyansky district of the Kalinin region, secured the success of the attacking unit at the cost of his own life, according to the official […]

Andrey Vedyaev19.11.2025

In the last days of November, 1941, the Nazi invaders approached Moscow, threatening to capture it. During these difficult days, Soviet people stood up to defend the capital, performing unprecedented acts of bravery, including behind enemy lines. The heroism of Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya, a saboteur in the intelligence department of the Western Front headquarters, who died […]

Andrey Vedyaev04.11.2025

The name of Georgy Mikhailovich Bryantsev, an honorary Chekist, front-line soldier, and writer—a Man with a capital M—was known to everyone in the Soviet Union. In 1968, his story “The End of the Hornet’s Nest” was published in Volume 15 of the second series of the legendary “Adventure Library,” along with the story “It Happened […]

Andrey Vedyaev20.09.2025

On December 5, 2024, Colonel Ivan Pavlovich Evtodyev, a veteran of the illegal special purpose intelligence service, an honorary employee of the state Security Service, celebrated his 100th birthday. The last of the surviving employees of General Sudoplatov. Ivan Pavlovich was born in 1924 in the village of Subbottsy in the very center of Ukraine […]

Yuri Chekalin10.08.2025

A partisan movement began to form on Belarusian territory as early as the end of the summer of 1941 during World War II. More than one generation will remember these heros — from surviving photographs in family albums, from videos on tablets. Time passes, but the memory of our relatives — veterans of the war […]

Yuri Chekalin08.08.2025

Vasily Martekhov had an interesting fate. Vasily was born into a family of Russian immigrants at the Bukron mine in the American state of Ohio and became the fifth child. By birthright, the boy received US citizenship. His father, a miner, worked 12 hours a day, but received negligible amounts. The Martekhovs lived on a […]

Alexander Palladin08.07.2025

During the Great Patriotic War, a total of 649 signals about enemy air raids and 3,087 reports of artillery shelling were transmitted by Leningrad Radio station, managed by Pyotr Aleksandrovich Palladin. On such occasions, the city radio used to be disconnected from the broadcast network. Instead, the metronome beating was put on the air. For […]

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 Chekalin07.05.2025

The “Immortal Regiment” event and a concert in honor of the 80th anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War were held on May 5th at the Russian Embassy in Japan. Descendants of the victors with portraits of their relatives and friends, participants in the Great Patriotic War and home front workers, honored the memory […]

Alexander Palladin04.05.2025

During his state visit to Germany on the eve of the 40th anniversary of the end of World War II in Europe, on May 5, 1985, Ronald Reagan stopped in Bitburg, where he laid a wreath at the burial site of German soldiers who died in both world wars. US 40th President did just that […]

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The Feat of Alexander Matrosov

The Feat of a Chekist

The Tale of the Chekist Years

One of the Last Intelligence Officer Survivors

As Father Alexander Was a Partisan Priest During WWII

The Only American Hero of the Soviet Union

As It Happened in Sieged Leningrad

My Platoon of the Immortal Regiment

The Immortal Regiment in Tokyo

US President’s Wreath At SS Burial Site

The Moral Basis of Civilization

Playing the Victim

Economic Crises and Why Everyone Suffers Except Bankers

A Financial Pyramid Based on Credit

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