Participation of the USSR in the Civil War in Spain, 1936-1939.

Russian history knew all sorts of wars - liberation, civil and religious, domestic and even counter-terrorism.

Any normal person refers to a war with natural disgust, because it is always grief, blood, unlimited violence, the death of thousands of innocent people.

But there are wars that stand apart, covered with a romantic fleur, which have become legends.

In the XIX century for the Russians it was the war for independence in Greece, in the XX - the war in Spain.

Even after many years, for some reason, it seems to us that it was a beautiful war, although there are no beautiful wars.

It is known that officially the Soviet Union did not take part in this conflict.

Nevertheless, even then the facts of the Soviet military presence in the Spanish theater of military operations and economic assistance to the USSR Republicans were known to both Franco and Hitler.

According to official statistics, more than 3,000 Soviet volunteers - pilots, artillerymen, tankmen, military advisers - fought in Spain.

In the skies of Spain our pilots dominated, the Spanish aces could not compete with them.

The teams of international brigades defending Madrid and Toledo, who fought in Valencia and Grenada, included hundreds of our compatriots, mostly professional soldiers;  all of them fought under foreign names, having French, Polish, Dutch passports.

The war is remembered by its immediate participants: the chairman of the association of Soviet volunteers who participated in the civil war in Spain Victor Lavsky (1937-1938), military translators Elizabeth Parshina (1936-1937) and Adeline Kondratyeva (1937-1938), pilot Sergei Timofeyevich Fomenko (1938) evacuated to the USSR by the Spanish Francisco Mansilla and Alberto Fernandez (1937).

Interview in the recording: the chief editor of the magazine "Military illustration" Roberto Palacios-Fernandez.

The program is supplemented by the Spanish military chronicle and cadres of revolutionary events in Germany.

Third century, any mention of the fate of Soviet pilots who participated in the US-Korean war, was prohibited, with veterans took a subscription on non-disclosure.

Officially, the USSR did not participate in this war.

But in the autumn of 1950, Stalin ordered the deployment of an air corps in the north of Korea, whose task was to cover strategic facilities and rear communications of North Korean and Chinese troops.

During the fighting, Soviet pilots and anti-aircraft gunners destroyed more than 1,300 aircraft.

The losses of Koreans in this war are estimated at millions, Americans and Chinese - in tens and hundreds of thousands.

Our official losses are only 315 people, however, according to eyewitnesses, this is impossible, the real losses are much higher.

All these soldiers and officers were buried in a foreign land, the nameless graves in Port Arthur and Dalniy (Dalian) became their last place of refuge.

In the end, neither side achieved decisive success, the war ended where it began - on the 38th parallel.

In the US, at the opening ceremony of the memorial to the victims of the Korean War, President Bill Clinton said: "If there is a 38th parallel, then we have not won ..." What can I add to this?

That wars are not only terrible, but often meaningless, that the division of Korea into the North and South has survived to this day and until now they can not agree.

And there is still no monument to the Soviet soldiers who died in Korea.

Guests of the program - participants of the Korean War 1950-1953: pilots fighters Victor Monakhov, Evgeny Pepelyaev, Sergei Kramarenko, Lev Ivanov, head of the air defense radar network near Pyongyang Jan Kanow, military interpreter Alexander Levin.

Included footage of the chronicles of the war years: Winston Churchill in Fulton, the emergency session of the UN Security Council, American and Korean political leaders, landing in Incheon, IV Stalin, ground and air combat operations.

Petersburg, the defense ministers of Russia, Denmark, Norway, Finland, Sweden, Iceland.

Russian Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov communicates with the heads of foreign defense departments.

Ivanov Sergey and the captain of the cruiser Aurora show a stern cannon to foreign guests.

The forum is held with the heads of foreign defense departments of NATO's North Atlantic bloc.

Russian Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov makes a speech.

The chronicle is the take-off of an American long-range radar detection aircraft.

Military air traffic controllers of NATO.

Military air traffic controllers of NATO for monitors and consoles.

Take-off of military aircraft.

Russian Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov talks about the scale, tasks and plans for the forthcoming exercises.

The heads of foreign defense departments are attentively listening to the Russian Defense Minister Ivanov Sergey.

Guest program Makienko Constantine talks about the relationship between NATO and Russia.

The plot of the work of the central command post of the air defense of the Republic of Belarus.

Military air traffic controllers of Belarus for monitors and consoles.

A computer model of a modern local conflict between two countries possessing modern weapons.

Newsreel: American bombers and missile carriers during the war in Vietnam.

A British destroyer struck by an anti-ship missile in the Falkland Islands area.

The actions of US precision weapons during the war in Iraq.

The guest of the program - the General Director of the corporation Tactical Missile Armament Boris Viktorovich Obnosov speaks about the high-precision missile weapons, the status and prospects of its development, the creation of a targeted program for the development of precision weapons, new missiles for various purposes, on the need to train personnel for enterprises of the defense industry complex, new developments of the corporation.

Weeping women with children - MS., CU.

American soldiers are Vietnamese men (not military), beat them, mock them, throw on the ground boys and girls with their hands tied - MS., LS., CU.

Face and hands bound - CU.

Anti-war demonstration in the U.S..

Demonstrators carried slogans and portraits of Ho Chi Minh, burning the American flag - MS., CU.

Animation: dispersal of a demonstration - MS., Freeze-frame.

American skyscrapers (photographed from the rotation) - MS., PNRM., MS.

Soldiers wounded near - MS.

Education of American soldiers - to prepare them for an undeclared war (Sambo techniques and others, soldiers - all in the mud) - MS., CU.

Runs on the way Vietnamese peasant - LS.

Face frightened girl - CU.

On the ground, raging flames, black smoke - MS.

Animation: Against the background of flames - the name of the film - "Undeclared War.

Vietnamese Diary. "

Women go with the water - MS.,

Village Street - LS.

Soviet-Libyan film.

Directed by Hassan Ahmed.

Film about nevospol Nimes damage from colonial occupation, war, concentration camps on the territory Torii Asia and Africa in different periods of history.

The film uses archival documents, interviews with political leaders and obsches Twain.