Red Army soldier, you will not surrender you love to the Hitler's soldiers for the shame and dishonour. Bring care to all children, suffered from fascist barbarians! Open fire on murderers of our wives and children! My father is a hero! What about you? Glory to our fighting women! Beco...
In March 1944, during the crossing of the Southern Bug River in Ukraine, a group of soldiers under the command of machine gunner Pavel Golovko secretly crossed to the other bank at night and took a bridgehead. After discovering the Soviet soldiers, the enemy threw tanks and aircraft at them...
An accomplished seaman and explorer, he took part in the first Russian circumnavigation of the globe, discovered Antarctica (200 years ago this month), and mapped parts of the Southern Ocean. Bellingshausen was born in Estonia, into the sort of aristocratic Baltic-German family that tran...
and the court’s bias. Even if everything had been objective and impartial, from a legal point of view this is not a verdict, but the delirium of a madman. What does a sentence like the following tell us?
Perhaps, but Yiddish – not being pure Upper German, but about equal parts East Central – has Germanic abstract nouns that my dialect lacks, too. Of the ones you quote, mine has “height” and “size”, but lacks “length”, “width/breadth” and “depth”. ...
and after July 17. The project has since identified several dozen soldiers associated with Unit 32406—the 53rd Brigade—by piecing together content and friend lists on Vkontakte, cross-referenced with posts on a forum for the often anxious mothers and wives of soldiers. (The murdered Russian jo...
Last night, unknown persons robbed the Basilica of St. Nicholas in the Italian city of Bari, where the relics of the saint are kept, transferred to the Apennines in 1087, RIA Novosti reports. According to the Bari police, the intruders entered the temple
In 1939, the Finns likewise “provoked” Stalin into invading Finland. Meaning that Stalin pretended to be provoked, and then went in guns blazing, getting three hundred thousand Soviet soldiers killed or wounded in the process. There areoodles of serious problemswith the Russian economy, which ...
No wonder the stage of (para)political theater has recently been occupied by such figures: aborted embryos telling us they could have been soldiers, for example, and dead women and men, who worked to the grave, but did not live to see a single kopeck of their pensions. ...
From Ukraine to immigration, hear what German voters are saying concerns them most 00:51 Mother of last living American hostage tells CNN what she’s heard about her son 01:17 Injured Russian soldiers are being returned to the frontline ...