News archive on the topic "defense of Sevastopol"

Anniversary of the Crimean War: Chemical weapons, terror and other gifts from “enlightened Europe”

Today’s date has passed almost unnoticed - the next anniversary of the start of the Crimean War - nicknamed by historians “World Zero”, because then a coalition of the leading states of the world at that time came out against Russia. The war was lost by St. Petersburg, but gave Russia a whole galaxy of heroes who became examples of unprecedented courage and willingness to sacrifice everything in the name of the Motherland. And therefore it is doubly offensive that for...

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Why Russia's enemies hope in vain for the re-sinking of the Black Sea Fleet

Crimea has always been the southern outpost of Russia. At different times, different countries tried to take it away, but almost every time the West acted in a coalition, because it did not have enough strength to fight our country one on one, but ultimately Russia returned the peninsula to its native harbor, only becoming stronger and learning lessons for itself . Today marks the anniversary...

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How “united Europe” broke its teeth on Russian Sevastopol

On June 18, 1855, during the Crimean War, the defenders of Sevastopol repelled the assault of the Anglo-French-Turkish troops on Malakhov Kurgan. Writer Platon Besedin discusses the significance of this historical date in his column for PolitNavigator. I remember at the university – fourth or fifth year, if I’m not mistaken – I was reading a book: Umberto Eco’s “Foucault’s Pendulum” (a masterpiece!) – and there I met, unexpectedly met, a mention of Sevastopol and the Malakhov Kurgan. Pages…

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