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Joseph Stalin, as we know, was not very fond of royalty has blue blood. But the wedding of the Shah of Iran and his second wife Soraya Esfandiary-Bakhtiari in 1951, the Soviet dictator suddenly sent lush gifts – mink coat and Desk accessories, decorated with precious stones Carbonado. Probably, Stalin was aware that the new wife of the Persian rulers has Russian roots.

Towed howitzer B-4 was developed and released in 1931 and is well proven in Finnish and the Second world wars in the defense and the destruction of fortifications, as well as in street battles. Her power 203-mm projectile enough that with the first shot, literally, to break into pieces "Tiger" or destroy a company of soldiers. But in the 1950s it is a unique weapon and got nukes.

The acronym MTR stands for special operations Forces. This elite military unit of the defense Ministry of Russia. If in the US, a similar structure exists since 1987, we have the creation of elite units began only in 2009.

In April 2002 we tragically lost one of the most prominent statesmen of the new Russia - Lieutenant-General Alexander Lebed. The helicopter in which he was flying crashed in the Krasnoyarsk region. Despite the fact that the investigation was conducted and identifies the guilty, the circumstances of the death of captain still raises a number of questions.[C-BLOCK]

The phenomenon, called "blooming snow", you can really find in the mountains of Northern Urals and the Caucasus, Antarctica and Siberia, where cold enough. And is this feature teploobmenu plants, which cause "blooming snow".

Party and state career of Leonid Brezhnev seemed to contemporaries dizzy. Comes from the bottom, he passed one after the other, all the degrees up to the highest post in the country. However, few people know that in his youth the future Secretary General risked to disappear forever in the dungeons of the GPU. Cause of conflict with the KGB was the gun purchased Brezhnev for self-defense.

The revolt occurred in the city of Murom in June 1961, was one of the links in the chain of tragic events precipitated the collapse of the policy of the "thaw" of the Khrushchev pores and changed the entire course of Soviet history.

In the trenches near the village Skrobova in November of 1916, Russian soldiers had to face an unprecedented weapon – the flamethrower. The consequences of the German attack showed that moral Russian soldiers was not quite prepared.

Despite the common myth about the technical superiority of the fascist army in the Great Patriotic war, many kinds of weapons soldiers of the Wehrmacht often "borrowed" from the red Army. We are talking about the captured weapons. Was the Soviet Union such developments and achievements, are not only not disdain, but thought for the great good fortune to take possession of the Germans. Passing through the arsenals of the Wehrmacht, Soviet machine guns and rifles got Nazi WaA stamps.

The most successful Soviet tank of the great Patriotic war is Dmitry Fedorovich Lavrinenko. He fought in the 4th (later 1st guards) tank brigade and his crew knocked out a German tank 52.