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The military machine Napoleon the artilleryman had created was perfectly suited to fight short, violent campaigns, but whenever a long-term sustained effort was in the offing, it tended to expose feet of clay. [...] In the end, the logistics of the French military machine proved wholly inadequate. The experiences of short campaigns had left the French supply services completed unprepared for ...
Mikhail Nikolayevich Tukhachevsky (Russian: Михаил Николаевич Тухачевский, romanized: Mikhail Nikolayevich Tukhachevskiy, IPA: [tʊxɐˈtɕefskʲɪj]; 16 February [O.S. 4 February] 1893 – 12 June 1937), nicknamed the Red Napoleon, [1] was a Soviet general who was prominent between 1918 and 1937 as a military officer and theoretician.
Vladimir Putin on a Harley-Davidson tricycle with a Russian biker gang on a friendly visit to Ukraine in 2010 Russian President Vladimir Putin has created a cult of personality for himself as an outdoorsy, sporty, tough guy public image, demonstrating his physical capabilities and taking part in unusual or dangerous acts, such as extreme sports ...
About Soviet power or About Polish Front - a conventional name; allegedly the matrix was damaged during copying: 05-Apr-1920: The speech has never been published: 14: А-0288: 5th session / Tsentropechat: The Tax In Kind: 25-Apr-1921: Refer to Lenin Collected Works, vol. 35, "Recorded Speeches" The recording has not been found, only the ...
The Bonapartistes desired an empire under the House of Bonaparte, the Corsican family of Napoleon Bonaparte (Napoleon I of France) and his nephew Louis Napoleon (Napoleon III of France). [2] In the 21st century, the term is more generally used for political movements that advocate for an authoritarian centralised state , with a strongman and ...
Russian political jokes are a part of Russian humour and can be grouped into the major time periods: Imperial Russia, Soviet Union and post-Soviet Russia. In the Soviet period political jokes were a form of social protest, mocking and criticising leaders, the system and its ideology, myths and rites. [ 1 ]
While being burned at the stake for heresy, he saw an old woman throw a small amount of brushwood onto the fire. "O Lord God, Father Almighty, have mercy upon me, and be merciful unto mine offences, for [15]: 146–147 thou knowest how sincerely I have loved Thy truth." [15]: 146–147 [17] [note 41]
Whether this speech was ever given by Stalin is still the subject of dispute by historians. According to Viktor Suvorov's book Icebreaker, Soviet historians laid special emphasis on claiming that no Politburo meeting took place on 19 August 1939, but the Russian military historian Dmitri Volkogonov has found the evidence that a meeting really took place on that day.