In Russia an arms manufacturer does not have a bad reputation by any means. Quite the opposite. With numerous events, the largest country in the world today celebrates the 100th anniversary of the birth of Mikhail Kalashnikov, who manufactured the AK-47 rifle shortly after the end of World War II, o
The hatred between Serbs and Croats is well known and fades over time. But more than ever it manifested itself during the Second World War. Yugoslavia was attacked by the Axis powers (German, Italian, Hungarian and Bulgarian) on April 6, 1941. The Yugoslav army could, after conscription, field ov
Just four days after launching their attack on Berlin on April 20, 1945, the Soviets had split the German front north and south of the city and were rapidly encircling the city. The German forces were no longer in a position to challenge, not even for a moment, the supremacy of the Soviets. But ther
When World War I broke out, Penang, Malaysia, could hardly have imagined that it could become a field of conflict between the belligerents. The German navy had a squadron in China which at the start of the war sailed to the coast of Chile. All but one ship, the light cruiser SMS Emden. Emden was
The new Museum of Troy, in the area of Canakkale (Dardanelli) was inaugurated by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. It is a project that started to be built in 2013 and cost tens of millions of Turkish lira. The Troy museum that we are inaugurating today is the latest example of our effort
The Black Legion was a mercenary formation of German Landsknechts created in 1514 by Duke Georg of Saxony to fight against his rival Count of Frisia. The original name of the mercenary formation was Black Guard. Under this name, it took part in the campaign in East Frisia in 1514, leaving behind
Prior to World War II the Yugoslav Royal Air Force procured around 50 British Hawker Fury I and II biplane fighters. Others were powered by a Rolls Royce Kestrel XVI engine which gave them a top speed of 405 km per hour (x .a.h.) making them the fastest aircraft of the type and others had Hispano-So
To deal with the situation that had arisen after the Soviet attack of January 1945, Hitler had formed a new Army Group (OS), that of the Vistula. The new OS was established, by order of Hitler and despite the fierce dispute with Guderian, under the orders of Heinrich Himmler. Finally, after a har
The Thirty Years War (1618-48) is characterized as the most destructive conflict in the history of Europe after the Barbarian invasions and before the Napoleonic Wars. It is wrongly considered a religious war as the conflict between Roman Catholics and Protestants was only the occasion. The then
Frederick the Greats Prussian army was considered the worlds most perfect military machine at the time and not without reason as it had achieved amazing victories although almost always outnumbered. However, this myth that you largely cultivate to this day, fell dramatically in the battle of Domstad
On July 1, 1941, German troops entered the Latvian capital Riga. The SS killers of Einsatzgruppe A, one of the special groups that Himmler had set up to clean up the rear, also arrived in the area with them. Head of Einsatzgruppe A it was Walter Stahlecker but he was not alone in his mission. The
On April 25, 1945 and while the Soviet soldiers were only a short distance from Hitlers lair, another meeting took place in the bunker (Hitlers underground shelter under the Chancellery), in which Goebbels also took part. The concurrence of the views of Hitler and Goebbels, regarding the field of hi
Louis Strange was born in Dorset, England in 1891. In 1912 he had his first eye contact with aviation and decided to become a pilot. He received his pilots license in 1913 from a private school and in October of that year joined the Royal Flying Corps (RFC), the forerunner of the RAF, with the rank
Hitler was a vegetarian... He didnt smoke, he didnt drink. If he were alive today he would probably be lecturing pro-veganism along with Greta Thunberg… Yet he has been the source of ultimate evil by “educating” his subordinates in utter perversion… The concentration camps and the extermination c
Declassified CIA documents shed light on 20th century history, but also on US policy regarding the Cuban Missile Crisis, and the approach of Fidel Castro and Ernesto Che Guevara. According to USA Today, the spy Ross Lester Crozier, who died in 2000, played a decisive role in the development of histo
Operation Harvest Festival was one of the biggest crimes ever committed. It was not just a celebration, but the harvest of human lives was great. The operation was decided after the cases of Jewish resistance against the German executioners. It was the largest massacre of its kind, with the exceptio
In the fall of 1992, the US and Turkey participated in NATOs Exercise Display Determination 1992. Naval units from the two countries participated in the exercise under the supervision of American Admiral Jeremy Michael Burda. The forces involved were divided into two with one representing the fr
Soviet spy Goar Vartanian, who along with her husband thwarted a Nazi attempt to assassinate Stalin, Churchill and Roosevelt, has died in Moscow aged 93, Russian intelligence has announced . Goar Vartanian passed away yesterday, Monday evening, and will be buried next to her husband, the now-famo
At the beginning of the 1st c. A.D. the Romans had invaded the lands of present-day Germany. In 6 AD the Romans defeated various Germanic tribes and established a bridgehead east of the Rhine. Rome entrusted the administration of the region to the patrician Poplius Quintilius Varus. Emperor Tiber
Initially it was a move of cynicism that brought benefits to both sides. In preparation for the attack on Poland, Hitler wanted to ensure the neutrality of the then Soviet Union and avoid the two-front war that led to World War I in Germanys defeat. It was under these conditions that Hitler and Stal
Wessex is one of the kingdoms founded by the Anglo-Saxons in England during the High Middle Ages. It extends over part of south-west Great Britain, between Domnonée in the west, Mercia in the north and the kingdoms of Kent, Sussex and Essex in the east. In the 9th century, Wessex was the last Anglo
The military dictatorship in Chile, initiated in the September 11, 1973, coup against President Salvador Allende, was responsible for the torture and death of thousands of Chileans. The Chilean military dictatorship It began with the military coup carried out in the country, on September 11, 1973,
On October 11, 1939, the economist Alexander Sachs delivered to then US President Franklin D. Roosevelt a letter that would change the course of 20th century history. The author of the letter was the Nobel Laureate in Physics Albert Einstein and its content referred to the urgent need for the USA to
At this point, the heroic resistance of the 29th Free Brigade (of volunteers) represented the main obstacle to the Chinese advance. This epic Gloucesters defense on the Imjin broke their momentum. It crippled their advance for 3 days and eventually caused their collapse, allowing the UN forces to fa