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It's a failed elimination of Mikhail Gorbachev most historians believe the first attempt on the General Secretary. Indeed, the Hitman hired by the Georgian criminal authority of Kukouri, was to eliminate Gorbachev in 1987. However, the KGB and the interior Ministry prevented the mafia to carry out the plan.

The problem is the human losses of the Soviet Union in the great Patriotic war exists in our days. There is still no precise data, historians use figures from 20 to 64 million people. Even more the issue of "defectors" – those who, being driven to work in Germany or becoming prisoners of the concentration camps, chose to remain in the West. Moreover, in addition to Europe, the USA and Canada our former compatriots came right up to Australia.

When pronouncing the name of the car brand "Porsche" man's imagination immediately draws an elegant expensive sedan designed for driving on the roads of the most wealthy people on the planet. While rare historian knows that the most heavy tank of the Second world war, ironically named "Mouse" was also developed on the personal order of Hitler's "Porsche".

Vasily Filippovich Margelov has always been distinguished by love for the discipline. And demanded the same from his players. But once Margelov was to command of the disciplinary battalion, which was dominated by real anarchy. However, "uncle Bob" is not confused, and sat down at the works of the famous teacher A. S. Makarenko. Though the commander still had to apply and sometimes force.

Many will be surprised by the fact that in modern Russia the number of acquittals, the court rarely exceeds 0.8 percent, while in the midst of the Great terror, the figure reached 13%. The reason for this contrast?