Secrets of history 2024, October
At the beginning of the 20th century, Russia possessed the largest gold reserves in the world. During the revolution, Kolchak managed to appropriate more than 500 tons of state-owned gold bars. Most of Russian gold was mined in special mines
According to the declassified CIA archives published in January for the second half of the 20th century, the USSR was seriously engaged in the preparation of "clairvoyant" diplomats
The fact that human superpowers can be useful in solving crimes are sure not only ordinary people, but also professionals
Alexander II saves the United States (1864) France and England remembered the heavy losses and colossal expenses of the Crimean campaign imposed on them by the Rothschild clan and their minions
The secret of Limuria - the disappearance of an ancient civilization The legendary Atlantis, which sank in the waters of the Atlantic, is known to many
By the end of World War II, all the leaders of the allied states - Churchill, Roosevelt, de Gaulle - highly appreciated Stalin's role in the war, admired him through clenched teeth and set Hitler and Goebbels as examples
The last favorite of Catherine the Great was 38 years younger than her. Horse Guards Platon Zubov was a pale shadow of Orlov and Potemkin Young man, dance with me! Even great eras don't always end beautifully
Recently, US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson spoke very respectfully about one of our compatriots from the UN rostrum: “This week the world learned that a little-known but very important person in the history of the Cold War passed away
The press service of the Institute of Archeology and Ethnography of the SB RAS informs that the treasure with unique objects, found near the mouth of the Kazym River in 2014, belonged to carriers of a previously unknown archaeological culture of the 1st century BC
The first woman described in the Bible was Sarah. The story of the beautiful Sarah and her husband takes up more space in the Book of Genesis than the story of the entire human race - - from the creation of the world to the time of Abraham
In 1821, part of the Ottoman Empire, Greece rose up against the sultan's rule. The largest naval battle of the war of independence is considered to be the battle in Gerontas Bay, where the semi-pirate rebel fleet, which did not actually have a centralized command, managed to pat the enemy's "international" armada using fire-ships
Like all Soviet people, we lived with our own concerns and problems, carried out the assigned work and did not particularly delve into what was happening “up there”. The reshuffles in the Central Committee and the Council of Ministers did not affect us, did not even interest us
The materials declassified by the Japanese Foreign Ministry regarding a number of events in the 70s and 80s of the last century, it is said about secret negotiations between the authorities of Japan and the United States about the South Korean liner shot down by the USSR on September 1, 1983
On the birthday of Mikhail Sergeevich Gorbachev, the leadership of the US National Security Archive prepared a rather original gift for the former General Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee: they posted 14 secret documents related to the activities of the Soviet
In the documents declassified by the CIA, materials were found about the experiments on clairvoyance and dowsing, which were carried out by the United States and the USSR in the second half of the 20th century, reports Republic
The National Archives of the United States first published drawings of a secret supersonic flying saucer, which was developed from 1951 to 1956 for the US Air Force, the so-called Project 1794 (Project 1794)
In fact, there are a lot of such photos. But they prefer to keep silent about them, since no one can explain them, and the criminal case was initially falsified so that truth and fiction were intertwined in it
More than half a century has passed since the launch of the Westford project, but there are still discussions about - What was it? Some researchers believe that we are talking about a pure scientific experiment, others are sure - not without military
In the summer of 1952, an explosion thundered in one of the laboratories of the scientific complex near Moscow, which belonged to the All-Union Research Institute of Electric Power Engineering. Several employees died
Battle on the Kosovo field - a major battle, which took place on June 15, 1389. It was attended by a united army of Serbian feudal lords in alliance with the Kingdom of Bosnian on the one hand and the army of the Ottoman Turks on the other
On December 2, 1948, the Australian newspaper Advertiser published a short note: “Yesterday morning, a human body was found on Somerton Beach next to a boarding school for disabled children
Beginning: Fireballs over the "Mountain of the Dead" Prosecutor Lev Nikitich Ivanov, who opened a criminal case on the death of tourists, many years later worked as a lawyer in Kustanai
The relics left behind by ancient people are usually broken, buried and difficult to identify, but there are still some artifacts that can make us completely rethink our place in history. Meet thirteen interesting finds
Archaeologists have exposed our ancestors, who, as it turned out, were not fools to drink. Eh. If this discovery had been made before 1961, perhaps Leonid Gaidai would have made the film "Moonshiners" not about the Soviet era, but the most tsarist
Employees of the Institute of Archeology and Ethnography of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Science (SB RAS) came to the conclusion that the treasure found near the Kazym River could belong to carriers of a previously unknown culture
According to medieval legends, he was an exemplary knight of the era of the Crusades. Strong and merciful, wise and courageous
Computer graphics specialists have restored the image of the "patron saint of all lovers" Several countries and cities claim to possess the relics of St. Valentine
"Where could this person be … well, I can't even imagine …" As the deserved favorite of the "decommunisers" IV used to say. Stalin, ominously puffing on his pipe, “Death solves all problems. There is no man - no problem"
There is a belief that you cannot touch the mummy, since it can impose a curse
Kerensky Alexander Fedorovich (born April 22 (May 4) 1881 - death June 11, 1970
Who do you think is the discoverer of America? According to the official version of the story - Christopher Columbus. There is another version according to which America could have been discovered by the Vikings. But could the Chinese navigators also reach it, and even before Columbus?
During the battle for Stalingrad, the Soviet Union lost 1.3 million soldiers killed and wounded. Germany and its allies - Romania, Italy, Hungary, Finland and Croatia, the battle for Stalin's city cost 1.5 million killed, wounded and prisoners
The defense of Stalingrad is not just a chapter in the book of the history of the Patriotic War, but a separate book that has collected the exploits of hundreds of thousands of people who stood up to defend the city
Everyone knows that the only head of the Soviet Union who fought at the front in the Great Patriotic War was L.I. Brezhnev. N. Khrushchev, Yu. Andropov and K
On the pages of our newspaper, we have never addressed the problem of alchemy
On March 19, 1945, Hitler issued an order called "Plan Nero". It meant the destruction of strategic objects, food warehouses, and cultural values on the territory of the Reich. The continued existence of the German nation was called into question
“None of us will return to Germany unless a miracle happens. Time has passed to the side of the Russians. " (An entry from the "Stalingrad" diary of a German officer). The miracle didn't happen. For not only time has passed to the side of the Russians
It is believed that the secret services are good at keeping their secrets. If there is a leak that can cause a public outcry, then it is, as a rule, authorized or is outright disinformation
In all ages in all countries the powerful of this world have sought to acquire or create "rays of death", bringing death to their enemies
The power of ancient civilizations has long agitated the minds of people