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We remember Chapaev by books and films, telling about it jokes. But real life red division commander was no less interesting. He loved cars, arguing with the teachers of the military Academy. And Chapaev's not a real name.

During the years of the great Patriotic war in captivity were about 5 million Soviet citizens (data of the Ministry of defense of the Russian Federation, published in 2005).

An Orthodox priest Fyodor Puzanov during the Great Patriotic war saved hundreds of villagers from stealing to Germany. He scored half a million rubles for the needs of the front, and in the end was "not a lot".

The battle at the small station of Prokhorovka during the great Patriotic war was an example of the Grand tank battle in the history of war. The battle of Prokhorovka was the epitome of courage and heroism of Soviet soldiers. But the results of this battle still cause heated debate. In question raised a number of techniques and the scale of the operation, which version of separate historians have been exaggerated by Soviet propaganda.

On 1 December 1934 at the Smolny shot from a revolver, was killed the first Secretary of the Leningrad regional Committee of the CPSU (b), one of the most famous Soviet leaders Sergey Mironovich Kirov. Assassin was Leonid Nikolayev, a member of the party, at that time – the unemployed.