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But too quickly, the brilliance of the great victory faded in our country. I will never forget how the Motherland welcomed the front-line soldiers. People fought for 4 years. For 4 years, the front-line soldiers had no more or less normal living conditions. For 4 years, they shivered in the harsh Russian winters. For 4 years,...

There are people whose names remain alive forever, even when they leave the world, and these names live their personal lives separately from them, gaining a kind of autonomy. People forget, with the succession of times, the significance of first names and their association with their owners, for example, who knows that the...

The events unfolding in Ukraine prompted me to write this piece. Not just since 2013, but perhaps since the collapse of the Soviet Union. The rampant rise of radical nationalism has been evident to me for a long time, particularly in Georgia. For me, this phenomenon was not incomprehensible. In Georgia, Russophobia existed even...

I have already mentioned that on weekends, we, the officers of the regiment’s management, would go to the beach for relaxation. The Cubans were also there relaxing. Relaxation is relaxation, and we drank beer, and perhaps someone left empty beer bottles behind. Whether it was our officers or the Cubans who left them, no one...

The Cuban army, like all other state bodies, was in a nascent state. Cuban soldiers began to arrive at our divisions. Of course, we, the officers of the divisions and the regiment, did not really believe that Cuban soldiers, with their level of general education, could master our combat equipment, but an order is an order, and...

We needed to distract people from drinking. Every evening, we organized movie screenings. But we had already watched all the films we brought from the Union, and the question arose: where could we find new films? I solved this problem. The fact is that our ships constantly arrived at the port of Santiago. And on the ships, as...

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At first, we didn’t understand what was happening, but then we saw. An American plane, having silently approached the ship, suddenly turned on its engines and spotlight. A tropical night, the sharpest military-political situation in the world, and overhead, an enemy military aircraft was circling. There was reason to be...

In 2007, I was invited to a meeting with participants of the Cuban Missile Crisis. I had always wanted to find someone from those with whom I participated in the defense of the Cuban revolution back in 1962. After 45 years, I met my former commander, Colonel Roman Grigoryevich Danilevich. He strongly advised me to write down my...

Lola Montez had a strange, rare, and unique combination of beauty, intelligence, and attractiveness. She was famous for her many relationships with men, not just any men, but she chose the man who could always put her in a high social and financial position. Lola Montez was born in 1818, the daughter of a British army officer,...

It seems to me that in the interwar period there were a lot of tanks designed with the idea that they would stay with groups of infantry, providing direct fire support while being a lot more durable than a field gun. My understanding is that this was generally abandoned in favour of faster tanks which operated somewhat...

The birth of Vlad III and his father Vlad II was preceded by centuries of conflicts between Muslims and Christians, known as the Crusades In 1408 the order of the Dragon Crusaders was formed to defend Catholicism against Ottoman Muslims and Orthodox Christians Vlad III is one of the most difficult characters in history because...

At the height of the Great Famine in 1960, a group of students exiled to the countryside launched a magazine that dared to tell the truth. Their convictions, and the love they bore for one another, were put to the test.

Set to chill instrumental music. Paris, Jerusalem, Istanbul, Geneva, Kyoto, London, Giza, New York, Germany, Madrid, Barcelona, Venice, Dublin, Moscow, Lyon, Marseille, etc.

An interesting story of how a silver denarius, minted over 2,000 years ago, reveals efforts taken by Ancient Rome to counter voter intimidation and manipulation during elections.

The image and videos title were clearly changed for clicks and don’t match the documentary except for the opium war period, but it’s a great doc that goes into much more

Mostly commentary interviews of survivors and former party cadres (officials)...