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Nestor Makhno – an iconic figure of the Civil war. In popularity it can be compared only to that of Chapaev. But if the Chapaev cult was propagated by the Soviet film and literature, Makhno tried to portray the devil incarnate. However, in spite of all the efforts of the purposeful demonization of the image of Makhno as gave him more charisma. Find something attractive in it, even the staunchest opponents of his anarchist political views. And, more importantly, Makhno was an iconic character for Ukraine, where mainly proceeded his flurry of activity, and Russia.

Soviet cinema made the machine a symbol of wartime. The gunmen, wearing black helmets marching on the captured city; the guerrillas, with a characteristic Bang, shot German column.. each image flashes of the legendary "Schmeisser". Machine rooted in the First World war, brought innovative solutions in the development of weapons, but left many questions in history.

The survival instinct of any state hostile to traitors. Not escaped this fate and ataman Pyotr Krasnov, however, not all historians put it on a par with the other traitors.

The hero of the novel Juliana Semenova "Seventeen moments of spring" scout Stirlitz has managed to prevent a separate peace between Nazi Germany and the allies. And it's not the author's fiction. The head of the office of strategic services DULLES had actually met with SS-obergruppenführer Wolff. The USSR prior to those talks, was not allowed.

This year will mark 10 years since the end of the armed conflict in South Ossetia when Georgian troops by order of the President of Georgia Mikheil Saakashvili attacked the unrecognized Republic. The situation in the region has been tense since the end of 1980-ies due to the fact that South Ossetia declared autonomy from Georgia. All this time, discontent was growing continuously, periodically an outbreak of violence. To prevent bloodshed in Georgia's capital Tskhinval was aimed group of Russian peacekeepers.