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The court in February 1956. Three years have passed after the death of the General Secretary of the Central Committee of the CPSU(b) Joseph Stalin. With his death the cold war between the USSR and the USA not only ended, but also began to gain momentum. As a result of complex hardware struggle to power in the Soviet Union came Nikita Khrushchev. He became one of the initiators of the twentieth Congress of the CPSU, which was designed to determine the policies of a superpower in the near future.

The Western part of China, Xinjiang or Chinese, historically, is called East Turkestan. Mostly populated by Uighurs, Kazakhs and many Turkic peoples and Mongols, it was annexed by China only in the middle of the XVIII century. After a bloody war with the Dzungar khanate, during which the Chinese troops deliberately killed all of the male batyrs, this vast country for a long time, the old memory, was called Dzungaria. Called her also and Kashgaria named in her oldest city, founded BC Tocharians.

During the great Patriotic war in the Soviet army shoulder to shoulder fought the representatives of different nationalities – Russians, Ukrainians, Tatars, Kazakhs... was among the Soviet soldiers and the Chechens. One of them, Khanpasha Nuradilov was posthumously awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union. Of his exploits are remembered today, 70 years later.

Few people know, but in the early XVIII century Peter the great decided to colonize Africa. Why was this necessary? Why Madagascar did not become ours? We decided to find out.

The collapse of the Soviet Union, as correctly noted by Vladimir Putin, was the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the twentieth century. While the Belavezha accords, in conditions when the population of the USSR at the referendum voted for the preservation of the country, look a state crime. At the same time, it is not clear why the conspirators had not been arrested.