Thursday, November 7, 2024

Plan Ost: Hitler wanted the population of the USSR after the victory

Plan Ost: Hitler wanted the population of the USSR after the victory
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Most of the population of the occupied Soviet Union and other countries conquered by the Nazis after their victory in the Second world war was going to destroy or exile to Siberia; the Nazis intended so to clear living space for Nazi Germany.

“The girl in the red bikini”: how the Soviet waitress escaped from the USSR

"The girl in the red bikini": how the Soviet waitress escaped from the USSR
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"The girl in the red bikini" - the so-called foreign press Liliana Gusinsky. 18-year-old Ukrainian decided on a daring escape behind the iron curtain and succeeded.

Operation “Masquerade”: how beetles saved Odessa from bandits

Operation "Masquerade": how beetles saved Odessa from bandits
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In the early summer of 1946 he came to Odessa Marshal Zhukov. For him the appointment of commander of the district was equivalent to the link. Odessa remembers Marshall. Still everybody is talking about how bugs fought with the Odessa crime.[C-BLOCK]

Ilya Starinov: how to fight the best Soviet spy of the great Patriotic

Ilya Starinov: how to fight the best Soviet spy of the great Patriotic
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Ilya Grigorievich Starinov was born on 2 August 1900 in the village of Voynovo in Orel region. The boy's father worked as a travelling crawler. Grigori Starinov often took the boy to work. Once Starinov, Sr. during the night shift noticed that the busted rails. To the driver just noticed the red signal, Gregory put on rails firecrackers and setting fire to them. Bright explosions of firecrackers startled the boy, and perhaps it is these childhood memories have influenced the choice of profession.

Kurland boiler: where the Germans continued to fight after the fall of the Berlin

Kurland boiler: where the Germans continued to fight after the fall of the Berlin
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7 may 1945 was signed the preliminary Protocol of unconditional surrender of Nazi Germany. But, when the whole of Europe is at peace, in the Western part of Latvia – Kurland – still the shots were fired.