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About the feat Podolsk cadets is much written in books and shown in different films. As is often the case in descriptions of the different events of the great Patriotic war of information seems to be a lot, but it is controversial and vague. Briefly, it all comes down to the following. The Podolsk cadets detachment numbering about 2,500 people, poorly armed and had only two 45-mm guns (according to other versions were also some very ancient, almost from the Museum, guns), more than a week kept the defense on the direction of Maloyaroslavets, confronted with greatly superior forces of the Wehrmacht, in particular, the 19th Panzer division. The students who were 18-19 years old (all boys), destroyed hundreds of German tanks and several thousand soldiers of the Wehrmacht, but they almost all died. With their lives they arrested the Germans and won the time to prepare for defense.
According to official statistics, over 28 years, during which time the wall divided East and West Berlin, the citizens of the East side, there were more than 60 thousand attempts of its overcoming. More than 5 thousand shoots has been successful. Among them, special attention is given to the act of the border guard Conrad Schumann, who on duty had to guard the border. But instead, Schumann just jumped the Berlin wall.
Talking about the development of this unique superweapon, it is impossible not to recall American sci-Fi Thriller "Tremors". Unlike the movie monster-worm, killing everything alive on its way, Soviet designers managed to create a real mechanical prototype.
As is known, Adolf Hitler had plans to destroy a certain part of the population. Under the "selection" were the homosexuals, the mentally and terminally ill, addicts. Also recognized as "racially inferior", the representatives of some nationalities, such as Jews and Gypsies. And than the last is not pleased to the Third Reich?
In the Soviet era, wolf messing was performed on stage as an artist-magician, supposedly read the minds of the public. The Restructuring about him began to write as almost about the greatest psychic of the twentieth century. Today we know a lot about him and sometimes shocking information, but no one can figure out where the truth and fiction.