WWII

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 […]

Alexander Palladin04.05.2025

During my stay in Washington, D.C. as bureau chief of Izvestia, I took part in numerous TV and radio programs, discussing Soviet-American relations with US politicians, journalists, and political scientists. One of those occasions stucks out in my mind as it dealt with a unique event at American television. On April 19, 1985, I got […]

Alexander Palladin12.03.2025

Two weeks ago, a new feature movie, called “North Pole”, was released in Russia. Based on real facts, it is dedicated to the crew of the first Soviet nuclear-powered submarine K-3. Nearly 63 years ago, in mid-July of 1962, it became Soviet Navy’s first submarine to surface in the North Pole area. The vessel was […]

Alexander Palladin28.02.2025

80 years ago, on February 26, 1945, a national mourning was declared in the USSR in memoriam of Alexey Tolstoy, an outstanding writer who passed away just a few months before the Great Victory over Nazi Germany. Official cause of his death was lung cancer, diagnosed a year before. In lots of photos and portraits, […]

Egor Yakovlev09.02.2025

Sergio Leone’s ‘900 Days’ — The Story of a Grand Project on the Siege of Leningrad. Sergio Leone, the author of the best Western films in history, was not very popular in the USSR. Soviet film critics criticized the Italian director for the aestheticization of violence, caustic irony and the lack of a moral compass […]

Egor Yakovlev03.02.2025

On April 30, 1945, street fighting was at its height in Nazi Berlin. Soviet troops were preparing to storm the Tiergarten district, which was defended by the SS. Both soldiers and civilians were dying in the bloody meat grinder in the center of the densely populated city. On this day, Red Army sergeant Nikolai Masalov, […]

Alexander Palladin28.01.2025

On January 27, 1944, the military blockade of Leningrad, the 2nd largest city in the USSR, by German and Finnish troops was finally broken. It lasted for 872 days and ranks as the longest and most lethal siege in world history, causing an estimated 1.5 million deaths. Some historians speak of the siege operations in […]

Yuri Chekalin27.01.2025

German worker August Landmesser, whose wife was Jewish, refused to salute Hitler. This famous photograph was taken in 1936. The photo shows workers giving the Nazi salute during the launch of the training ship Horst Wessel. Only August Landmesser crossed his arms instead of saluting. This photograph is a historical document of that era when […]

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My Platoon of the Immortal Regiment

The Immortal Regiment in Tokyo

US President’s Wreath At SS Burial Site

Spirit of the Elbe Is Gone?

Unique Soviet School

Alexey Tolstoy In Memoriam

Sergio Leone’s ‘900 Days’

Prototype on the Liberator Soldier monument in Berlin

German and Finnish Siege Could Not Silence The Voice of Leningrad

The Man Who Refused to Salute Hitler

The Michael Jackson Biopic is Missing its Most Controversial Story

Madama Butterfly and the Japan of the Western Imagination

The Spanish Civil War at 90: the Republic’s Response

Terminator Is about 80 Years Old