Breaking

During the storming of Grozny in 1995 our boys-soldiers first attacked separatist troops. Drove on the narrow streets, pressed and burned. But among themselves the soldiers told me that when there comes a critical moment, as if out of nowhere appeared a mysterious tank that saved the situation. This happened not once, not twice.

The extreme defender of the national team of Russia on football P. Sokolov, a large part of his life for espionage work against the Soviet state, having to work on three military intelligence. The USSR secret services knew where he was, but to get the Nazi accomplice and could not (or would not).

Ivan dovrebanen was one of the 28 Panfilov, who near Volokolamsk destroyed 18 enemy tanks. Lost almost everything. Among the survivors were and dovrebanen. He had to come back from the war as a hero. But after 2 years after winning he was arrested, was sentenced to 15 years and deprived of awards.

In Soviet times, the history of the October revolution has been repeatedly amended, it was removed "inconvenient" for the authorities names. Among such "forcibly forgotten" characters were Ignatius Dzevaltovsky, one of the main leaders of the storming of the Winter Palace in Petrograd and the first Soviet commandant.

Disputes about the nationality of the Admiral A. V. Kolchak associated with the origin of his ancestors: according to historical records, Russian military and political figure, scientist, oceanographer, polar Explorer and naval commander was a descendant of the Russified Turks (according to another version, Serbs-Muslims). The founder of the dynasty Kolchaks (great-great-grandfather of the future Admiral) - Ilias Pasha Kolchak, the commander of the fortress Khotin during the Russian-Turkish wars of the XVIII century.