Monday, November 25, 2024

“The shadow of the Fuhrer”: what really happened to Martin Bormann

"The shadow of the Fuhrer": what really happened to Martin Bormann
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Personal Secretary and right hand of Adolf Hitler, SS-obergruppenführer Martin Bormann earned the enormous confidence of his patron. He really was the second face of the Third Reich (after Hitler himself). Some even with envy called Bormann "the shadow of the Fuhrer". The list of crimes this man is huge. More reflection causes the story of his disappearance after the war.

“Forest brothers”: what did the Baltic Bandera after the war

"Forest brothers": what did the Baltic Bandera after the war
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After the great Patriotic war in the Western parts of the Soviet Union intensified the partisan movement: Bandera — in Galicia, the "Iron guard" — in Moldova, the "Forest brothers" in Baltic States. Confrontation with the past was most bloody: if the number of victims of the Ukrainian insurgent army in the second half of 1940-ies was about 10 thousand people in clashes with the "Forest" killed about 25 thousand.

Alex Ochkin three rebels of the red Army officer

Alex Ochkin three rebels of the red Army officer
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The great Patriotic war has become a huge challenge for millions of people. Someone bravely died in the battle, someone managed to survive. Alexey Yakovlevich Occhino, which is a phenomenal survivability of the soldiers called, "Lieutenant Fire" fate has given a chance three times to back from the dead.

As Denikin suppressed the resistance of the Chechens in the Civil war

As Denikin suppressed the resistance of the Chechens in the Civil war
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In the spring of 1919 in Chechnya is extremely unpleasant for the White army situation. Chechnya has become a hotbed of separatism and Bolshevism. To solve the problem was entrusted to General Denikin.

Operation “Cartel”: Andropov saved the Soviet Union from fur mafia

Operation "Cartel": Andropov saved the Soviet Union from fur mafia
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These Soviet Industrialists of the early 70-ies moved almost billions in the modern ruble terms. Doing profitable business in circumvention of the state, fur dealers mafia in the end got in sight of the KGB.