Breaking

Turning point "battle of Kursk" lasted a month and a half. During the offensive of the Wehrmacht, which the German command called "Citadel", the Soviet troops with great effort and casualties destroyed 1.5 thousand German tanks and 1.7 planes. The wounded and dead, Germany lost 500 thousand people and from this blow the Reich could not recover. After Kursk, the Germans finally lose the initiative and begin to fall back to the West.

Georgy Fedorovich Aleksandrov was a man of outstanding. Scientist, philosopher, in 1939, when he was 31 years old he became a doctor of Sciences and Professor, and then twice winner of the Stalin prize. In 38 years he was academician of the USSR! Such a good philosopher, Marxist, and even from the working environment, Aleksandrov in Soviet socio-political system was simply doomed to success. Shortly after receiving his doctorate he took up the post of head of the Department of agitation and propaganda of the Central Committee of the CPSU (b), and then headed the Institute of philosophy, Russian Academy of Sciences, and in 1954 climbed to the position of Minister of culture of the USSR. And here's the happy path by Georgy Aleksandrov "of proletarians to the Ministers" was broken. Career ruined sex scandal that erupted in 1955.

Local historians agree that such a transformation Joseph Stalin sanctioned because the Institute of people's Commissars as the structure of state power has become obsolete.

"On the top bunk of the space occupied by repeat offenders" is an excerpt from the book of Karl Steiner "7000 days in the Gulag". About camp rules the author knew firsthand: he spent behind barbed wire for nearly 17 years. This view is echoed by other former prisoners, and historians: do "Verkhotura" was considered among the prisoners a "luxury" sleeper.

In July 1918, after the expulsion of the Bolsheviks in Omsk was proclaimed the capital of Siberia. For almost a year and a half, the new authorities did everything to the town was the center of not only Siberian, but also Russian white movement.