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Restoring bit by bit ancestry Nadezhda Krupskaya, historians have studied the genetic branch of her family, starting with grandparents. Raising the archives, they encountered a variety of facts that may indicate the presence in the family Krupski and the German and Polish roots. In some editions it was possible to meet the assumption of a Jewish origin. In fact, half of these versions is not has under itself the bases.

Antonina Makarova for their "merits" earned the nickname "Tonka-machine-gunner". During the war she collaborated with the Nazis in Lokotskogo Republic and has shot more than a thousand captured Soviet soldiers and partisans.

It has long been rumored that Mikhail Gorbachev had given a subscription about collaboration with the Germans during the occupation of his native village. But, it turns out that in the mid 1990's and Gorbachev's father was suspected of collaboration. And the reason for the events that occurred in 1945 with a certain Gregory Rybakov.

Alleged Soviet secret technique to Dodge bullets called "Pendulum Tamancev" – the subject of incessant controversy. Some consider it a real effective method used in SMERSH, others insist that "Pendulum" is nothing more than a clever hoax.

The history of the great Patriotic war is replete with the heroic exploits of Soviet pilots who sacrificing their lives went to RAM enemy aircraft, or the echelon. It usually is about the pilots males, while there was a similar case of heroism of Soviet pilots, the first of which was the legendary Catherine Zelenko.