Tuesday, December 16, 2025

Vasily Vereshchagin: as killed fighting Russian artist

Vasily Vereshchagin: as killed fighting Russian artist
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Vasily Vereshchagin went down in history as the largest and original Russian painter of battle scenes. His work is permeated at the same time and patriotism, and humanism. The public idolized him, and the Emperor hated and banned. His paintings are immortalized a few warrior who led Russia. Almost all of them he personally participated. Talk about ways to combat the great artist.

Stasi: how worked the worst intelligence Agency in Eastern Europe

Stasi: how worked the worst intelligence Agency in Eastern Europe
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In the days of the fall of the Berlin wall in 1989, residents of the German capital, destroyed the hated Stasi - the East German secret service, the working methods which did not differ humanity. What agents of the Ministry of state security of the GDR deserved notoriety in his country and abroad?

Bullies: why Soviet citizens were so afraid of teenage gangs

Bullies: why Soviet citizens were so afraid of teenage gangs
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In the 1920-ies the Soviet government gradually taking root on the territory of the former Russian Empire. The counter-revolution was defeated and just on the outskirts of the Red Army has finished off the enemies of the country workers. However quiet life after the victory did not come. The Soviet city was swept by a wave of terror by thousands of hooligans, who during the Civil war no longer afraid of the authorities and to value human life.

Pulkovo point: that the NKVD shot Soviet scientists

Pulkovo point: that the NKVD shot Soviet scientists
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It all started with the mystical natural phenomena - eclipses of the sun. From the moment the light faded for many Soviet scientists, the first of which began astronomers. Therefore, in accordance with the name of the main Observatory of the country the case was later called Pulkovo.

CRO-magnon vs Neanderthals: the main rivalry of the stone age

CRO-magnon vs Neanderthals: the main rivalry of the stone age
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It is known that the Neanderthal dead-end branch of humanity. But they were in such a deplorable position? According to one version, could not compete with CRO-magnons, on the other, became victims of genocide.