During the Second World War, an American pilot made an emergency landing near a village. Its inhabitants had never seen an airplane before, just as they had never seen foreigners. But, having surrounded him, pulling his hair, touching his skin and hearing his speech, they decided that it was still a man. Who was not called...
The creators of the Netflix series The Devil Next Door have agreed to add annotations to a map of Europe that outraged the Polish prime minister. The Devil Next Door is set during World War II. The plot tells about the hunt for Ivan Demjanjuk, a native of the Ukrainian SSR, caught...
The World Forum of Russian-Speaking Jewry, at a special event in New York dedicated to Victory Day in World War II, spoke about the contribution of Soviet Jews to the victory over Nazi Germany, to the salvation of the Jewish people and the founding of Israel. The event took place as part of the annual conference of the Jerusalem Post newspaper - one…
In Israel, just a few days before Victory Day, Ion Degen, a professor, doctor of sciences, holder of four Soviet and three Polish military orders, and a tank ace, died. It was believed that one of the best poems about the war was written by a deceased tanker. And this tanker...
The Coordinating Council of the Russian Community in the USA (KSORS) spoke about how to find out more about those who went through the 1941-1945 war, which lasted 1418 days and nights and affected almost every Soviet family. In the public domain, you can find many archival documents of the military ...
Poland will seek the arrest and extradition of a 98-year-old native of Lutsk (Ukraine), who lives in Minnesota. Michael Karkok (Karkots Mihajlo) is suspected of giving the order to kill 44 Poles during the Second World War, rtvi.com reports. Requesting an arrest warrant for Michael Karkok of Minneapolis ...
Cedric Belfrage, a well-known Hollywood journalist and film critic in the thirties, was born in London in 1904 into a physicist's family and studied at the University of Cambridge, who left because of his hobby for theater and cinema. After working on critical reviews for the Daily and Sunday Express, Belfrage left for the United States. Following his passions, he ...
Russian authorities consider it necessary to hold an international military tribunal on the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945, said Russian State Duma speaker Sergei Naryshkin. During a round table at the Moscow State Institute of International Relations, dedicated to the 70th anniversary of the atomic bombings of Japanese cities, Naryshkin ...
President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko signed the law “On the perpetuation of the victory over Nazism in the Second World War of 1939-1945”, according to which the concept of “Great Patriotic War” is replaced by the term “Second World War”. The text of the relevant law was published on the website of the head of the Ukrainian state. The document is recognized as lost...
The traditional Victory Parade was held in the Israeli city of Ashdod. A distinctive feature of this parade is the record number of schoolchildren and young people who took part in it. In a single formation they marched through the streets of the city together with World War II veterans, former blockades, prisoners of the ghetto ...