Breaking

No one today can say how many of them there were official counts of children who were born during the years of the great Patriotic war in the Soviet Union from the aliens, the invaders, we were not (in any case, evidence on this point). Called number up to 100 thousand people – but it is only assumptions of Western historians.

According to the official version, the death of Leonid Brezhnev was due to sudden cardiac arrest. Despite his poor state of health of the Secretary General, his unexpected death has caused a lot of misunderstandings. And no wonder: some of the circumstances of the departure of Brezhnev's life still seem, at least, strange.

Assessment of the work of SMERSH during the great Patriotic war the General population varies significantly, depending on political views and personal life experience. They go to extremes, claiming that counterintelligence was almost exclusively engaged in seeking out enemies where there are none, more exposing unjust repression of the innocent than catching the real spies. Which was not at all. The other extreme is that spies were everywhere. Which is close to the official Soviet point of view shown in the books and films of military and post-war time. Judging by what was shown and wrote people, the number of German spies was so great and they were caught in such numbers that they can be equipped with several divisions. The truth, as always, is somewhere in the middle, but to tell reliably which of the extremes of this "middle" is closer — it's hard.

In the first years after the collapse of the USSR Russia faced a major socio-economic crisis. It was especially difficult regions. The standard of living in the same region could be significantly higher than in the other.

Revolution and civil war gave the world not only idealists and romantics, but also those who used the confusion to their advantage. Spirited people seized power, ideals outweighed by greed, looting and revenge.