WWII

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 This photograph is a historical document of that era when […]

Yuri Chekalin15.01.2025

Fyodor Fyodorovich Serpilin, the main character of Konstantin Simonov’s trilogy “The Living and the Dead”, was a composite image. In him, one could guess the features and destinies of the legendary generals-commanders Alexander Gorbatov and Ivan Grishin, but the main prototype was Colonel Semyon Fyodorovich Kutepov, whom the writer Simonov (at that time – a […]

Yuri Chekalin17.12.2024

Amet-Khan Sultan was born in Crimea on October 25, 1920, to a Lak father and a Crimean Tatar mother. Like many young people of the 1930s, he attended an aeroclub, which determined his future fate. Having been drafted into the army in 1939, Amet-Khan was sent to the Kachin Aviation School, from where he graduated […]

Alexander Palladin07.12.2024

In 1982, Charles Higham’s book “The Untold Story of Errol Flynn” was published in the United States. Sent to print on the eve of yet another anniversary of the Japanese attack on the main base of the U.S. Pacific Fleet in Pearl Harbor, it was dedicated to Errol Flynn, Hollywood actor of Australian origin and […]

Alexander Schmidke06.12.2024

The most exotic units participated in the battles on the Leningrad Front, both in their origin, such as the Norwegians, Spaniards and Flemings, and in their military purpose. Mountain rifle units fought on both sides in the swamps and forests of the Leningrad Region, German airborne troops confronted Soviet soldiers on the Nevsky Pyatachok, and […]

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 […]

Klim Zhukov04.12.2024

December 1, 1896 was the birthday of Georgy Konstantinovich Zhukov, a Soviet military leader and statesman. Marshal of the Soviet Union (1943), four times Hero of the Soviet Union (1939, 1944, 1945, 1956), holder of two Orders of Victory (1944, 1945), six Orders of Lenin (1936, 1939, 1945, 1956, 1966, 1971), and many other Soviet […]

Alexander Palladin18.11.2024

When the Great Patriotic War began, my father was drafted into the Red Army, but was discharged due to a congenital heart defect and had to return to his civic journalistic duties in Moscow. In July 1941, he took my elder brother Valery to Skopin where our grandmother Lidya lived in the midst of the […]

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 […]

Dmitry Litvinov11.09.2024

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The Rapid Evacuation of Soviet Factories During WWII Was a Success — But Why? It is known that with the beginning of the invasion of Germany and its allies into the territory of the USSR, the Soviet government carried out colossal work on the evacuation of industrial enterprises to the east and the emergency deployment […]

The Man Who Refused to Salute Hitler

Who Was The Prototype Of Brigade Commander Serplin?

Amet-Khan Sultan: the Air Ace Who Bacame the Two Times Hero of the Soviet Union

The Unknown Role of Errol Flynn

Unbelievable Tank Rescue At The Leningrad Frontlines

An Evening of Amazing Stories

Happy Birthday, Comrade Marshal Zhukov!

Skopin Is Where General Guderian’s Army Was Stopped

Unforgettable Parade

Soviet Evacuation of Factories in WWII Was a Success

It’s Cold There

Japan’s Myopia Epidemic

The Whirlwind Front

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