On This Day in History

[Litwin]

The Nazis killed six million Poles, maybe the Soviets should have left the Gestapo running things, there is no excuse for destroying war memorials period.

Fighting ‘hostile’ memory: the vandalism of Polish monuments in Russia

In 2023, Russia has seen a spike in acts of destruction or removal from public space of monuments and symbols commemorating the victims of political repression, primarily Poles. This is connected with Russia’s full-scale assault on Ukraine as well as the explicit designation of Poland by the...

www.osw.waw.pl

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/poland-protests-over-damage-monuments-russia-2024-12-10/

 

[Litwin]

good he was a dirty pig, like you

 

[Ringo]

 

[Ringo]

 

[Ringo]

1938, February 13: The submarine of the Soviet Northern Fleet “D-3” (commander - senior lieutenant V. Kotelnikov), providing rescue of the expedition of the polar station “North Pole”, managed to pass under the ice cover at a depth of 50 m for about 30 minutes.
It was the first subglacial voyage in the Arctic

 

[Zebra]

1945 Dresden

 

[Ringo]

in 1431, the trial of Jeanne d'ARC began. Although formally tried by the church on charges of heresy, Jeanne was imprisoned under English guard as a prisoner of war.

In 1613, the Zemsky Sobor elected Mikhail Fyodorovich Romanov to the Tsardom. The beginning of Russia's last royal dynasty was laid.

In 1784, the city and the military port of Akhtiar by decree of Empress Catherine the Great received a new name - Sevastopol, which in translation from Greek means “majestic city”, “city of glory”.

In 1808, fulfilling the secret condition of the Tilsit Treaty between Alexander I and Napoleon, according to which Russia received the right to take Finland from Sweden, if the latter refused to join the continental blockade of England, Russian troops under the command of Count F.F.Buksgevden crossed the Russian-Swedish border, entering the territory of Finland. The last Russian-Swedish war began.

In 1848, the “Manifesto of the Communist Party” written by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels was published.

in 1934, the rebel army commander Augusto Sandino, along with his brother and two generals of his army, were arrested in Managua on his way out of negotiations with Nicaraguan President Sacasa. They were all shot the same day on the orders of National Guard commander Anastasio Somoza.

In 1940 work begins on the construction of a concentration camp near the Polish town of Auschwitz.

In 1943, the German offensive in Tunisia (the “Battle of the Kasserine Pass”) reached its highest point: the 10th Panzer Division reached the village of Tala. On the night of February 21-22, the defense of Tala was reinforced by American, British and French units, which made further German advance impossible. On February 22, Rommel decides to call off the operation and retreat eastward.

In 1972, U.S. President Richard Nixon begins his historic visit to China, during which diplomatic relations between the U.S. and the PRC were established. China was given the opportunity to focus on confronting the Soviet Union.

in 1994, the FBI arrested CIA officer Aldrich Ames in Arlington on charges of spying for the Soviet Union and Russia.

In 2022, the Head of the Russian State V.V. Putin signed decrees “On the Recognition of the Soviet Union”. Putin signed decrees “On Recognition of the Donetsk People's Republic” and “On Recognition of the Lugansk People's Republic”.
Also Vladimir Putin and the head of the DNR Denis Pushilin signed the Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation and Mutual Assistance between the Russian Federation and the Donetsk People's Republic.
The Russian president and LPR head Leonid Pasechnik signed the Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation and Mutual Assistance between the Russian Federation and the Luhansk People's Republic.

 

[Ringo]

In 1763, a Negro slave rebellion led by Coffey broke out in Dutch Guyana. This rebellion is celebrated as the first attempt in the New World by freed black slaves to create a free country for themselves.

in 1836 The beginning of the siege of the Alamo Mission near San Antonio, Texas, by the Mexican army led by General SANTA ANNA. The American colonists defending the mission are captured and shot two weeks later. Americans regard this episode as one of the most heroic moments in their history, and Texas would become a new U.S. state in 1845.

In 1847, during the U.S. war with Mexico (1846-47), a two-day battle at Buena Vista ended with the defeat of the Mexicans, who were again led by SANTA ANNA (despite their significant 3.5 times numerical superiority). The victor, General Zachary TAYLOR, would be elected President of the United States in 2 years.

In 1893, Patent No. 67,207 for “Technological method and kind of construction for an internal combustion power plant” was obtained in Berlin by Rudolf Diesel

In 1903, an agreement was signed by both parties to lease the Guantanamo Bay area from Cuba to the United States “for coal and marine stations”. The term was defined as “for the time required” (for the time required).

in 1941, American Glenn Seaborg obtained a plutonium isotope with mass number 239 as a result of experiments on irradiation of uranium-238 with neutrons in a cyclotron. The new material had excellent characteristics in terms of ease of fission and the method of its production. Since then, plutonium-239 has become an integral part of nuclear and hydrogen bombs.

In 1945, Turkey declared war on Germany and Japan.

In 1945, when 23 U-88s attacked a convoy coming from Murmansk, the U.S. transport Henry Bacon (Liberty-class) set a record of success for air defense for ships of this class, shooting down 3 and damaging 2 planes. However, a little later it was damaged and sunk, becoming the last Allied transport sunk by the Germans in the war. 23 people died, including Captain Alfred Carini.

In 1946, General Tamayuki Yamashita was executed. His execution served as a justification for the so-called “Yamashita Standard”, according to which the commander is responsible for any crimes of his subordinates, even if they were committed without his knowledge.

In 1981, there was an attempted military coup in Spain. Lieutenant Colonel Tejero, leading a group of Civil Guard gendarmes, seized the parliament building during a vote for prime minister (attended by the entire current government). General del Bosque, commander of the military district of Valencia, who was in contact with him, declared a state of emergency in that city and brought tanks into the streets. However, King Juan Carlos, with the support of the other district commanders, refused to recognize the rebellion and at 1 a.m. on February 24 made a televised speech condemning the coup. In the morning, Tejero gradually released all deputies and surrendered.

 

[Ringo]

 

[Litwin]

GREAT DAY ! your fav satanic , oriental despot koba ( sralin ) died in a pool of his own piss and shit in which he festered for hours because his own guards were too scared to open the door because he would execute anyone who disturbed him.

Stalin was more evil then Hitler ever was, ."in the form of Stalin Satan visited the earth and recruited an army of sinners."Such evilness evilness evilness and evilness. He was a Mass murderer and a madman. Paranoia ran through his veins and caused the death of millions and millions. Those close to him suffered the same fate

 

[Soupnazi630]

The most decent thing he ever did

 

[Ringo]

11 years ago, on March 16, 2014, a historic referendum was held in Crimea, during which the residents of Crimea and Sevastopol unequivocally supported joining Russia (96.77% and 95.6%).