Marcus Cloud

The hero of the novel Juliana Semenova "Seventeen moments of spring" scout Stirlitz has managed to prevent a separate peace between Nazi Germany and the allies. And it's not the author's fiction. The head of the office of strategic services DULLES had actually met with SS-obergruppenführer Wolff. The USSR prior to those talks, was not allowed.

This year will mark 10 years since the end of the armed conflict in South Ossetia when Georgian troops by order of the President of Georgia Mikheil Saakashvili attacked the unrecognized Republic. The situation in the region has been tense since the end of 1980-ies due to the fact that South Ossetia declared autonomy from Georgia. All this time, discontent was growing continuously, periodically an outbreak of violence. To prevent bloodshed in Georgia's capital Tskhinval was aimed group of Russian peacekeepers.

In the 1930-ies among Soviet citizens went to a legend that the prisoners of Stalin's camps are loaded into barges, taken to the White sea and just dumped into the water. As you know, any rumors usually have a factual basis. Indeed, Solovki prisoners actually transported on barges, but they were not drowned, but was sent to the last journey in Sandarmokh.

The second world war was fought on the territory of 40 countries participated 72 countries. In 1941, Germany had the strongest army in the world, but a few crucial battles brought the Third Reich to defeat.

Russia's First world war had resulted in millions dead, the collapse of the Empire and the end of the monarchy. So far the historians have no consensus about why the country entered into this large-scale conflict.