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Yevgeny Rodionov was only 19 years old when he was killed in Chechnya. Once captured, the boy bravely withstood the brutal torture and abuse, refused to remove an Orthodox cross and take someone else's faith.

In the postwar years, historians have constantly tried to reconstruct the chronology of the outbreak of hostilities of the great Patriotic war. It is accepted that the war began on June 22, exactly at 4 am. But in fact, Georgy Zhukov, who at that time was the chief of the General staff, in 03:06 received the first signal of hostilities with the Germans.

The names of many Soviet traitors have taken the side of the enemy, has long been known: Lieutenant General Andrei Vlasov, hero of the Soviet Union fighter pilot Semyon Bychkov and others. Less well known is that during the Second world war, many soldiers of the German army went over to the red Army.

In time of war could devalue any material value, but not food: coveted was even a stale piece of bread. Especially important good nutrition was at the front and rear, did everything the soldiers did not experience hunger.

This submarine managed to get in two trips and the third world, in may of 1968 K-27 accident of a nuclear reactor with liquid metal (lead-bismuth) coolant. What happened then, began to be widely discussed only in 90-e years – the submarine gave a subscription about nondisclosure of data about the crash on 25 – 30 years.