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The author boldly goes against the American "mainstream", calling into question the justification of sanctions against the victims of the coronavirus North Korea and Iran. But the authorities have people with other views, the author recognizes with horror. And cites the following fact: the Secretary of state Pompeo rejoices in the misfortune of Iran, hoping for a "regime change".

In June 2016 in St. Petersburg was installed a memorial plaque in memory of Baron Carl Gustaf Mannerheim. However, the plaque almost immediately suffered at the hands of the vandals: it repeatedly doused with paint, fired and even cut with an axe. Less than six months, as a commemorative sign was decided to dismantle. The person of Mannerheim, the first Russian General of cavalry, and then Marshal and President of Finland, still causes in society a lot of controversy. The fact that after the February revolution he moved to the side of Finland, abandoning belonging to Russia and it is seriously claimed to be a part of the former territories of the Fatherland.

In tsarist Russia it sometimes happened that the criminals broke into the cemetery with the purpose to dig a grave. However, the tradition to put in the casket with the deceased valuables the time has long gone. What is needed thieves?

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.

From Lieutenant General L. Rokhlin, Y. during the war in the Chechen Republic had its own way to manage entrusted to him the unit in a combat situation, he often showed independence, defying the orders of the higher command, and the result was worth it.