Breaking

Band of brothers Tolstopyatov, which in addition to Vyacheslav and Vladimir included Sergey Samosyuk Vladimir Gorshkov, from 1968 to 1973 terrified the residents of the Rostov region. Popularly known as "Fantomas", because of the habit to commit crimes in the tense face black nylon stocking, they became the first in the postwar history of the USSR organized criminal groups successfully operating for such a long period of time.

The deportation to work in Germany – one of the saddest pages of the great Patriotic war. This occurred from 1942 to 1944.

One may day in Kirov was to be truly festive. For the anniversary of the Soviet army arrived in the city of Moscow artists who were to perform at the local stadium. The celebration was to end with fireworks. However, the fireworks were not joyful, and deadly.

The collaboration of Soviet citizens during the great Patriotic war was a taboo subject in the Soviet Union, the phenomenon is strongly suppressed. With the beginning of perestroika began to open up previously unknown facts, there are more data about the participants of this movement. In addition to the well-known General Andrei Vlasov, a prominent figure among the traitors were Colonel Victor Maltsev. He created his own air force of Russian collaborators.

One of the heroes of the novel by Yuri Trifonov's "House on the embankment" is a schoolboy named Anton Ovchinnikov. He, like some of the other characters, there was a very real prototype. His name was Lev Fedotov. After his death he will be called a prophet and a psychic, supposedly managed to predict accurately in his diary the events of the great Patriotic war.