Breaking

At the end of the 1930-ies of the NKVD began to strip their employees, including effective working in countries of the West. People's Commissar Nikolai Ezhov withdrew dozens of its residents in Moscow, where they disappeared without a trace. The executions have already done the business and now a danger to witnesses, the society learned mostly much later, after the XX Congress of the CPSU. Some intelligence agents, in anticipation of their waiting at home, the fate was decided on cooperation with foreign intelligence services, hoping to save their lives. To live to old age and die a natural death managed a few defectors. So, Georgy Agabekov special group of liquidators of the NKVD got in France, Ignatius of Reiss in Switzerland, and Walter Krivitsky mysteriously died in the Washington hotel.

The fact that you can fight not only on land, sea and air, but under ground people have understood for a long time. Even in ancient times, the troops used the catacombs, galleries and caves in order to hide from the enemy and replenish the supply. Everywhere, destruction and burning of the walls in the capture of cities was used by the saps.

Perfect escapes only happen in the movies. In real life, the runaways were most often caught and returned to prison. And add from 3 to 8 years to the main term. "Podrywaja" into the wild are well aware that sooner or later will be caught. But the all-consuming dream of the prisoner on the throat of freedom is intoxicating and pushes to escape.

In early 1943, the entire world press wrote about the Soviet Union's victory in the battle of Stalingrad. About the heroism of Russian talking everything from Mao Zedong to Winston Churchill. Remember, as evaluated by the battle of Stalingrad foreign politicians and historians.

Monasteries in Greece has always been famous ability to fend for themselves. In the history of the country, they often became centres of resistance to invaders. Here in the Second world war, the monks played a great role in the liberation.