Breaking

Resembling a tin can with a thick handle, the first antitank grenade of the great Patriotic war was not only ugly appearance, but also very bad "reputation". "Tanya" as it was called in the infantry, the soldiers did not like. It is extremely dangerous to use, some time after the outbreak of war grenade RPG-40 was almost useless against German tanks.

The American government is so highly appreciated the achievements of the Chechen commander of the Mawlid visaitova that put it on par with Georgy Zhukov, Rodion Malinovsky and Konstantin Rokossovsky. In may 1945, the Soviet officer was presented to one of the most coveted awards of the United States – the order of the Legion of Honor.

Many people have probably heard stories of people who experienced clinical death. Some details I remember the release of the soul from the body, others describe a flash of light at the end of the dark tunnel, the third I remember the paintings of past lives, and some even have time to meet with God or deceased loved ones. Western researchers view these memories from a scientific point of view.

The territory, which stretches along the right tributary of the river Vilyui, the Yakuts call the "valley of Death". According to legend, in this place are huge cauldrons, half buried in the ground. Under the original "hemispheres" once spent the night hunters, or lost travelers. However, after many of them fell ill or died, the elders forbade all walking in the "valley".

Vadim Ilyin, the author of the book "Secrets of the death of great men", named Hanna Reitsch, one of the most fanatically loyal to Hitler women. It, worrying for the fate of the beloved Fuhrer, asked him to leave the surrounded Berlin. Reitsch proved that this mission her on the shoulder, failing at the end of April 1945, to fly to Berlin.

The leaders of the Soviet Union dreamed that aliens were evaluated by a "red Empire" for its lush facade. However, as in the case of "Potemkin villages", the truth shone out through the cracks. The pride of the Moscow Bolshoi theatre on the sunset of Soviet power has become a real hangout, a gathering of criminal elements.

The battle on the "Nevsky patch" - a small area on the left Bank of the Neva river is one of the most dramatic and bloody pages of fight for Leningrad. A strategically important bridgehead, which was to play a crucial role in breaking the siege the city was captured thanks to the skillful actions of major Stephen Gray. But a few months later the officer was convicted and executed. Why did this happen?

History knows many cases when decent weapons received mixed reviews from soldiers. It happened with a self-loading rifle Tokareva (SVT) - one of the most advanced samples of small arms of world war II. In spite of many positive sides, carabiner due to a number of shortcomings and did not stick in the red army as a massive weapon.

About Fyodor Ivanovich Sukhov know almost everything – and not just those who happened to live in Soviet times. The main character of the legendary film "White sun of the desert" became one of the most beloved characters in the history of Russian cinema. The role — the actor Anatoly Kuznetsov, admitted: "because of this picture I lost my real name! All began to call me "comrade Sukhov". In Astrakhan and Volgograd there are streets named in honor of the famous red army, and in Samara and Donetsk, it was monuments.

In the 90-ies due to the growth of national contradictions, the situation in the Soviet republics deteriorated. The former fraternal peoples against each other, and often the confrontation ended in bloodshed. Not an exception and Moldova, and the most significant conflict occurred in the Transnistrian city of Dubasari.