Breaking

"Reparation through labor" was the name of the procedure for the use of Germans, people in Germany and allied with her in the great Patriotic war in different countries work on the territory of the USSR from 1945 to 1956. In Germany this program has been involved Romania, Yugoslavia, Hungary, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia – a country whose citizens fought against the Soviet Union on the side of the Nazis.[C-BLOCK]

Unitary pistol cartridge 9x19 mm Parabellum designed in 1902 by the German designer Georg Luger, is still used as the standard cartridge of NATO. However, the Russian versions of this cartridge and the guns in it, which appeared in the 1990-2000-ies, has not received wide distribution. In the national army and security forces more than half a century "holds the position of" patron 9x18 mm PM. And not only in the tradition of the cartridge to the Makarov pistol has a number of advantages, however, are not always obvious.

The activities of many agents of the Soviet intelligence in Western countries and Japan are widely known to ordinary people and has been a part of popular culture. Cambridge five Richard Sorge and Rudolf Abel became heroes of movies and even overgrown with myths. Let's not forget that they are still declassified in exile – such is the fate of many spies. But counterintelligence worked in the USSR...

"Thieves ' law" prohibits the representatives of the criminal world to cooperate with authorities in any form. However, in the years of the great Patriotic war, some adherents of the "thieves ' idea" after all, defending their Homeland with weapons in their hands. Kingpin Anatoly Cherkasov named "Cherkas" long concealed from the criminal world his military background – although he was something to be proud of.

Before the war the shelves of Soviet stores not bursting from the abundance of goods. At the very least supplied with food the population of large cities, primarily Moscow and Leningrad. The situation in the province was worse, and in rural areas – and at no. With the outbreak of war immediately began to supply disruptions. However, it was goods that were bought at the first opportunity, and completely uncontrolled. In the first place — salt, matches and soap.