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History knows many cases when decent weapons received mixed reviews from soldiers. It happened with a self-loading rifle Tokareva (SVT) - one of the most advanced samples of small arms of world war II. In spite of many positive sides, carabiner due to a number of shortcomings and did not stick in the red army as a massive weapon.

In Russian history a lot of dark spots, which "clarified" only hypotheses, and sometimes the fantasies of historians. Apart here is the massacre of Novgorod by the guardsmen, which began on 12 January 1570. It belongs to the most severe acts of John IV.

In 5 hours and 15 minutes in the morning 22 June 1941 the people's Commissar of foreign Affairs of the USSR Vyacheslav Molotov received German Ambassador count Friedrich Werner von der Schulenburg, handed over a Memorandum about the Declaration of war by Germany. The Memorandum contained numerous claims to the Soviet Union, which Berlin officially motivated by the outbreak of hostilities.

In contrast to the postwar anti-Soviet underground struggle in Western Ukraine and the Baltic States, a similar phenomenon in Moldova was virtually unnoticed by a wide range of researchers. Despite the fact that anti-Soviet movement in Bessarabia was not extensive, it caused a lot of headache to the local authorities. The struggle with the Soviet Union led the organization of the "Black army".

Friedrich Engels himself did not fight, but, after analyzing the events of military history, came to the conclusion that Russian soldiers - the clumsiest people in the world and is not suitable for light infantry and cavalry. He is not able to show the ingenuity of the Frenchman and the common sense of the German, he needs a clear and precise command.