Breaking

At the end of March 1968 on the red Square, the Kremlin wall was buried the urn containing the ashes of Yuri Gagarin. Eyewitnesses claim that the procedure of burial of the ashes of the first cosmonaut was not comparable with its deification, which in his lifetime and has not found its embodiment.

Even today there is no definitive data on the number of captured Germans after the war. Girls who served in the military forces, police, SS were transferred to special camps. Only in the USSR, these places are prepared more than 2 thousand. The conditions were harsh, as evidenced by the numerous memoirs and reminiscences of the prisoners.

Assessment of the work of SMERSH during the great Patriotic war the General population varies significantly, depending on political views and personal life experience. They go to extremes, claiming that counterintelligence was almost exclusively engaged in seeking out enemies where there are none, more exposing unjust repression of the innocent than catching the real spies. Which was not at all. The other extreme is that spies were everywhere. Which is close to the official Soviet point of view shown in the books and films of military and post-war time. Judging by what was shown and wrote people, the number of German spies was so great and they were caught in such numbers that they can be equipped with several divisions. The truth, as always, is somewhere in the middle, but to tell reliably which of the extremes of this "middle" is closer — it's hard.

Ludwigsvorstadt - In on Sunday night a local resident alerted the police and complained about the loud party noise in a courtyard in the lindwurmstrasse. A Patrol car drove up and met a party of around 30 guests. Eleven of these persons...

A day not to remember with clarity, the poet Ben Clark (Ibiza, 35 years old) wrote a poem. Then, this poem ended up arrejuntado with others in the book, The confusing mix, which won the Poetry Prize Young Félix Grande. The day...