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“Comrades, we are transporting the whole factory!” Evacuation of the USSR industry in…
As we know from history lessons (or, what's better, from one of our articles :), the first months of Operation Barbarossa, i.e. the Third Reich's invasion of the USSR, were a devastating defeat for the Russians. The Red Army retreated in…
The last kamikaze pilot and the heaviest drinker of the Imperial Navy of Japan. History of Vice…
Below we present the story of a man baptized as the "last kamikaze", undoubtedly one of the most devoted and courageous officers of the Imperial Navy. Vice Admiral Matome Ugaki lived according to the Bushidō code and died a samurai death in…
Battle of Kursk – the largest tank battle of World War II
The German offensive code-named "Zitadelle" carried out in the area of Kursk on the Eastern Front in the Soviet Union led to the largest armoured battle fought during World War II. Thousands of tanks, guns, planes and almost 3 million…
Battle of Lipany – the end of the Hussite Wars and the fall of the Czech revolution
Not everyone knows that at the beginning of the 15th century the Czechs rebelled against the Roman Catholic Church and founded their own religious movement called Hussitism. The escalation of the conflict led to armed crusades on their…
The last mission of U-977. A cruise across the Atlantic and Hitler’s alleged evacuation
During World War II, the Third Reich released to the Atlantic the so-called U-Boot wolf packs, i.e. submarines whose task was to terrorize the commercial and military navies of the Allies. One of them was a ship numbered U-977, whose crew…
World War II spy stories – laxative in German U-Boat crews’ food
Here are eight little known, but interesting, stories from the period of World War II, about how the Norwegian resistance movement poisoned the German U-Boot crew stationed in France, how the Czechs unconsciously showed Germans the…
Kamikaze: The Divine Wind in Defense of Japan
When the outcome of the war in the Pacific between the United States and Japan was a foregone conclusion, the Imperial armed forces, in an act of desperation, sent suicide pilots to the battle, whose task was to fly in one direction ended…
The most important battles in history [Part 2/2]
The history of wars is also a collection of battles which had a decisive impact on the history of a given region, country or even the whole culture. In 1851 historian Edward Shepard Creasy created a subjective collection of 15…
The most important battles in history [Part 1/2]
The history of wars is also a collection of battles which had a decisive impact on the history of a given region, country or even the whole culture. In 1851 historian Edward Shepard Creasy created a subjective collection of 15…
Simo Häyhä “The White Death”, the most lethal sniper in history
Below we present the story of probably the most successful sniper in history - the Finnish soldier Simo Häyhä, baptized by his enemies as "White Death". During the winter war between Finland and the USSR between 1939 and 1940, Simo shot…
F-22 Raptor fifth-generation stealth fighter – Interesting Facts
The word "raptor" means "predator" from English. It is hard to better describe the F-22, the US' fifth generation fighter, whose destructive capabilities cannot be compared to any other machine of its kind in the world. Stealth technology,…
Nuclear exercises in Totskoye: how to drop an atomic bomb on your own soldiers
On 14 September 1954, one of the most tragic military exercises in history took place. During the manoeuvres with the cryptonym "Snezhok", the Soviet Union threw a nuclear bomb on the Totskoye military training ground, where several hours…