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Firearms beginning in the sixteenth century gradually began to displace Europe's traditional methods of warfare, and its development led to the emergence of a new kind of troops in the expanding Russian state, Ivan the terrible.

We in Russia also had their own lady Hamilton. And the renowned Emma Hamilton, mistress of Admiral Nelson, she was a rare beauty, she also was surrounded by men who can safely be called history, and finally, the Russian lady Hamilton as the English is not very lucky in life. But the similarities end there.

The second world war became a proving ground for hundreds of new types of weapons. Opponents wanted to create their own "weapon of retaliation", but in combat it is often not only had low efficiency, but also threatened whoever was using it.

Of the peasant revolt of Alexander Antonov in the Tambov region in 1920, do not like to talk. The suppression involved the red Army, left to fight against their own citizens. At the same time, this operation is unlikely to be successful if not for the actions of the security officers, who managed to infiltrate the army and Antonova received the satisfactory intelligence.

According to research by history Professor Brian Rigg and Professor at Yale University Poloa Hyman in the German army fought about 150 thousand Jews. The most famous of collaborators, having Jewish origin, was Boris Shteifon, who died in the rank of Lieutenant General of the Wehrmacht.