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In December 1942 the German Reich Ministry for the Eastern territories, headed by former Russian citizen Alfred Rosenberg, officially declared that Cossacks are descendants of the Germanic people – ready. On this basis, the Cossacks were not Slavs showed up, full of racial, deserve to form your armed forces for the joint with the Reich against Bolshevism, and also to have their own state under the great German protectorate. The immediate reason for this decision was the sharp deterioration of the situation on the southern wing of the front the German troops and the desire to have them here for strong, hostile rear. And what was the historical Foundation for such a Declaration?[C-BLOCK]

In 1941, near the Polish Lublin throat, in the small village of Trawniki was a training center (camp) the SS for the training of persons sent punitive troops, guards of concentration camps, police battalions. A significant portion of learners were Soviet prisoners of war.

During the great Patriotic war the German invaders was plundered more than 170 museums located on the territory of the Russian Federation, and more than 150 in Ukraine. The exact figure of the lost Russian values is difficult to call. Today listed 1 million 177 thousand 291 exhibit.

Ensuing year 1944 brought the Soviet victory in the great Patriotic war, then, in the night, on the radio for the first time the new anthem sounded, designed to support and encourage the Soviet people in the struggle against Nazi Germany. Until 1943, as the state has used the international proletarian hymn "the Internationale," written in the XIX century by Frenchman Eugene pottier. The rejection was associated not only with the need to maintain national patriotism, but also consistent with the political considerations of Joseph Stalin.

During the military conflict between Georgia and South Ossetia in 2008 there were many examples of the bravery of the soldiers of the Russian army. The Western media rarely laudatory articles in our direction, but one of the cases they described in great detail. It was 8 August when one soldier was able to stop a column of armed Georgians.