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Any politician long enough in power, after the death leaves the society highly polarized evaluations of his personality. Muammar Gaddafi, Saddam Hussein and Fidel Castro have both admirers and haters far beyond their native countries. Supporters are such historical figures as Adolf Hitler, and not only among the fascist youth. In Germany, talking about it is not accepted, but some Germans of the older generation can sometimes say that "in the Third Reich, life was not so bad", and in the attic of many houses gathering dust, the main book of the Fuhrer (the circulation of which in 1945 amounted to a whopping 13 million copies). In the history of Russia was also quite a lot of actors, a clear assessment of which is impossible: from St. Vladimir and Alexander Nevsky and ending with Lenin and Nicholas II. However, the main line, which will long split the Russian society, goes by the name of Joseph Stalin. For some — the father of Nations, the successor of Lenin, the winner of fascism. Others see it as a bloody butcher, tyrant and traitor to the revolution. This sharp public debate, is relevant even today, actually began on 5 March 1953, the day when it was announced the news of the death of the leader, which not all citizens of the USSR accepted the same.

When in the 70-ies, the screens out the film "Dirk" and "Bronze bird", shot on the works of the famous writer Anatoly Rybakov, the leading role of "ideological pioneer" Misha Polyakov Sergei of Shevkunenko suddenly woke up famous. Nobody suspected that in a few years he will be in the dock.

About the feat Podolsk cadets is much written in books and shown in different films. As is often the case in descriptions of the different events of the great Patriotic war of information seems to be a lot, but it is controversial and vague. Briefly, it all comes down to the following. The Podolsk cadets detachment numbering about 2,500 people, poorly armed and had only two 45-mm guns (according to other versions were also some very ancient, almost from the Museum, guns), more than a week kept the defense on the direction of Maloyaroslavets, confronted with greatly superior forces of the Wehrmacht, in particular, the 19th Panzer division. The students who were 18-19 years old (all boys), destroyed hundreds of German tanks and several thousand soldiers of the Wehrmacht, but they almost all died. With their lives they arrested the Germans and won the time to prepare for defense.

According to official statistics, over 28 years, during which time the wall divided East and West Berlin, the citizens of the East side, there were more than 60 thousand attempts of its overcoming. More than 5 thousand shoots has been successful. Among them, special attention is given to the act of the border guard Conrad Schumann, who on duty had to guard the border. But instead, Schumann just jumped the Berlin wall.

Talking about the development of this unique superweapon, it is impossible not to recall American sci-Fi Thriller "Tremors". Unlike the movie monster-worm, killing everything alive on its way, Soviet designers managed to create a real mechanical prototype.