Breaking

The Stalinist era keeps a lot of secrets. Among them – the project of a tunnel through which planned to connect Sakhalin island with the mainland.

In October 1941, the Soviet Union and the United States reached agreement on lend-lease. Until the end of the war, the Soviet Union received from the United States financial assistance, which is largely brought long-awaited victory. However, our country has sent to the West a lot of valuable goods.

According to military experts, by 1941 the German army was the strongest in the world. Battle-hardened and experienced the taste of victory, German troops approached the Soviet border with a sense of superiority. The soldiers of the Wehrmacht considered themselves invincible.

The name "Great Patriotic war", as the "Second Patriotic war", was originally applied in relation to the First world war. In his appeal to the people Nicholas II emphasized that this war will continue until "until you take the enemy from our land". However, it so happened that the First world war only lightly touched on the territory of Russia.

The famous writer Nikolai Gogol was terrified to be taken back home alive. In his work the Testament of "Selected passages from correspondence with friends" he said, "my Body not to bury until then, until obvious signs of decomposition". Meanwhile it is known that Gogol practically forced myself to die.