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On 23 February 1944 Chechens and Ingush suffered mass deportation from the Caucasus to Central Asia. After 13 years they were allowed to return home, but went back not all. What has changed in Caucasians over the years?

In the front line, especially in the first months of the Second world war, the red Army, the most common punishment for desertion, cowardice during combat and was shot down the line. Over time, this harsh method of exposure to military discipline there is an alternative – the penal battalions. In these units, according to historians, during the great Patriotic war visited up to half a million red army soldiers.

Between Andrei Vlasov and Adolf Hitler established a kind of relationship. They both disliked each other, however, the führer saw in the Russian General and man that threaten the well-being of the Reich.

Perhaps the name of the actor Boris Buryatse would be known only to a limited circle of people, if not for his relationship with Galina Brezhneva daughter of the Secretary General and the scandalous story of the diamonds stolen from Irina Bugrimova.

The process of active confrontation between the Soviet government of Lithuania launched immediately after the German attack on the Soviet Union. However, the decisive phase of the Baltic resistance began in the summer of 1944, when the Soviet-German front moved into the territory of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia.