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We all know that during the Second World war, the Soviet Union was at war with Germany. Our enemies in the films, memoirs and research articles, as well as in everyday conversations are called Germans and not otherwise.

The name of Alexander Matrosov – the hero of the great Patriotic war, who closed an embrasure of the enemy bunker, familiar to all from school years. However, few people know that a similar feat was done by a woman. Rather, 17-year-old Belarusian partisan Rima Shershneva.

The generally accepted view that the prisoners of Nazi concentration camps mocked solely by the staff of these prisons of death, actually not quite true – at the service of the Nazis consisted of collaborators from among themselves as prisoners. They were called "KAPO".

Surely you wondered how many times tightened and squeezed special forces soldiers – those brave guys that solve the most serious and complex national objective: free the hostages, eliminate the terrorists involved in operations abroad. In Russia, the most famous two of an elite group of spetsnaz FSB "alpha" and "Vympel". The latter is well known less, as its main purpose – intelligence, counter-intelligence and combat operations outside the country. But the requirements and regulations in special forces is about the same. About them today and we'll talk.

The thirties in the Soviet Union were marked by a sharp increase in power of Stalin, accompanied by departure from the principles of world revolution and political repression, in the direction of building a strong state. Against this background, a number of famous cultural figures such as Maxim Gorky who had great authority, both in the country and abroad became deadly.