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Soft and intelligent mark Lazarevich gallay was nothing like the pilot who has made dozens of sorties in the most difficult conditions experienced in the aircraft and learn to fly Yury Gagarin. A close friend of Mark Gallay Director Edgar Ryazanov said of him: "During the heroic biography he was absolutely unheroic appearance".

While the Red Army was at the front of the war against the Wehrmacht in the rear of the Soviet people were not bothered by bandits. In an atmosphere of confusion and weakened local law enforcement (police and the NKVD were forced to give the best employees and equipment to the troops) it has become easier to find a weapon and escape from the law. Shortage, rising prices and insecurity of citizens has led to the fact that the bandits became impudent and chased profit, despite challenging for the country. Already in 1941 the USSR had been a significant increase in crime – there were more and more burglaries, street robberies and murders, falsified documents and food cards. Some thugs have created a criminal gang, "famous for" its criminal "exploits". The composition of the gangs were replenished by the draft Dodgers and deserters who were unwilling to die for their country.

The song "On the nameless height", written by poet Michael Matusovsky and composer Veniamin Basner, is considered one of the standards of the military genre. Valentina Ponomareva in the article "how Much was a pound down and out on the nameless height? The story of the song" explains that many war veterans listened to her with tears in his eyes, emphasizing the plausibility of the plot. And how was actually?

During the great Patriotic war the red Army consisted of several types of handguns — the time-tested Mauser and revolvers, as well as new and cheap to produce "Tula Tokarev". But the object of envy of his colleagues became the owners of a captured German pistol Walther P38, the so-called "officer Walter". This weapon is called the best gun of the Second world war.

Night 23 August 1941 near Odessa group of Soviet miners-volunteers, armed sapper shovels overturned two battalions of the Romanian infantry, trying to take the position 412-battery. In this battle nearly all the men died the line of duty. The feat described in his book, Vice Admiral Azarov. The words of captain be confirmed in the memoirs of members of defense and documents in the naval archives. 412-I battery and the defense of Odessa

The first landing of Russian paratroopers flew in the 1930's – it happened during a training exercise of the red Army near Voronezh. Have fighters airborne have a clear idea about what not to do before a jump to safely reach the ground. In the end, all Marines remember the phrase: "airborne is not healthy and the sick – are the living and the dead".

Geographical map of the worlds that serve as the knowledge of the planet a person actually are often mislead us about the nature of these it objects. The Caspian sea is one of the most striking examples of this deception. According to the explanatory dictionary of Ushakov (however, in other dictionaries the definitions are similar) sea is "part of the water shell of the earth, a huge cavity in the earth's surface, filled with bitter-salty water and connected by a Strait or ocean forming a coastal part..."

Failed mathematician, candidate for the post of the Patriarch of Moscow, the first Chairman of the reconstituted Department for external Church relations of the Holy Synod, and even the Confessor of Joseph Stalin – all characteristics of Metropolitan Nicholas (in the world of Boris Yarushevich) that he was awarded in one or another period of his life. Why opponents accused him of vanity and ambition, Nikita Khrushchev feared and what should be left to the priest in the history of the Russian Orthodox Church?[C-BLOCK]

Coverage of prison issues in the USSR were not welcome, and the existence of the prison subculture ignored by the authorities. First, it disagreed with the ideology, and second, threatened his moral principles, and thirdly, this subculture was considered marginal. According to the article, "Mythologizing the prison subculture in the Soviet cinema" cultural studies Natalia Tishchenko, the ideology of the USSR claimed that all Soviet citizens have a high level of social responsibility, a crime is a separate egregious exceptions, the punishment for which is inevitable.

The famous historian Boris Sokolov no wonder calls circumstances of death of the wife of Nikolai Yezhov mysterious. According to the official version, Eugene Hawtin died voluntarily. Shortly before this she had received from his wife the statue, which, under the assumptions of another historian Nikita Petrov, became a kind of prearranged signal the need to commit suicide.