Tuesday, November 19, 2024

Some Ukrainians fought against the Russians in the Russo-Finnish war

Some Ukrainians fought against the Russians in the Russo-Finnish war
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Immediately after the Soviet-Finnish war, a former rebel chieftain kholodnohirsko Yuri Gorozanin-Lisowski, known under the pseudonym "horlis-Gorsky" arrives in Helsinki. Nationalist together with his colleague Alexander Shulgin offers Finnish government form of captured Ukrainians from the red army and the OUN (banned in Russia organization) volunteer unit that would fight against the Bolsheviks.

“Where grows the willow-herb, there a man died”: what are the signs, the search engines are looking for soldiers of the great Patriotic

"Where grows the willow-herb, there a man died": what are the signs, the search engines are looking for soldiers of the great Patriotic
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The first groups of enthusiasts involved in the search and reburial of soldiers of the great Patriotic war appeared in the Soviet time. To date, there are no less than 42 thousand the official "red diggers", for many of whom participation in search is the main business of life. Over decades of field work, the search engines have accumulated a lot of experience, but to find the remains of the fallen and sometimes it helps not a precise calculation, and signs.

In dresses, under the guise of the deaf: how the Soviet Union concealed deserters

In dresses, under the guise of the deaf: how the Soviet Union concealed deserters
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In July 1941, the light went out a decree according to which employees of the Special divisions received the right to shoot deserters on the spot. It is not surprising that those who have escaped from the front, so carefully disguised. They are dressed in women's clothes and a burka, pretending to be disabled, and even wandered with Gypsy encampments.

Sergo Hambardzumyan: the Soviet athlete, who won the main strongman of the Third Reich

Sergo Hambardzumyan: the Soviet athlete, who won the main strongman of the Third Reich
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Weightlifter Joseph Munger was known as a favorite of Adolf Hitler and, probably, not in vain. After all, Mangere in the 1930-ies was considered the strongest man on the planet. However, Joseph Stalin decided that the German player would be defeated. The choice of the leader of the Soviet state fell on Sergo Hambardzumyan.

As a revenge to Marshal Varentsov for friendship with the traitor Penkovsky

As a revenge to Marshal Varentsov for friendship with the traitor Penkovsky
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Fatal error in the life of Marshal varentsova was his acquaintance with Colonel Penkovsky of the GRU, who in the 60's he was accused of espionage. At the trial of Penkovsky Varentsov was not sitting beside him in the dock. However, some believed that the Marshal should have been more alert and not confused with anyone, and therefore justified subsequent history of this persecution varentsova.[C-BLOCK]