Breaking

There is a widespread opinion that all the peoples of the USSR equally forged the victory over fascism, and you cannot highlight or diminish some of them. However, in no way questioning this principle, we note that it should not limit the study of state policy towards nationalities of the USSR. It was the Soviet state divided the peoples into more and less loyal to him, and more and less prepared for action in modern warfare due to historical stadial differences in their cultural development and level of civilization.[C-BLOCK]

About the East-Prussian operation in 1945, particularly about the assault of Koenigsberg, was written much. And that's about it, that in the autumn of 1944, the troops under the command of Chernyakhovsky's already tried to defeat the group of the Wehrmacht in East Prussia — I write very rarely.

The heroic defense of the Brest fortress by Soviet troops in the first months of the great Patriotic never reported from the point of view of the national composition of its garrison. However, recently, it was reported about a large number of Chechens among the defenders.

This Lieutenant (that was the real military rank Nikolay Pavlenko, the rest up to the Colonel, he gave himself) for almost 10 years, since 1942, established and led a fictitious organization. The accident only helped to reveal the true extent of his scams during the great Patriotic war and in the postwar period.

Leon Trotsky never found a calm refuge after the expulsion from the Soviet Union.