Breaking

At the end of the war General Vlasov with the armed parts of the POA has betrayed the Nazis and began to seek support from allies, particularly the Americans. The main part of the Vlasov was immediately issued by them to the Soviet authorities. Realizing that Americans are not going to cover it, the General asked for political asylum in neutral Switzerland. In this he unconditionally rejected. In 1945, may 12, Vlasov was issued by the allies and the Soviet reconnaissance Yakushev and arrested.

On 5 September 1918 the Council of people's Commissars issued a decree on the beginning of the red terror. Harsh measures to retain power, mass shootings and arrests, hostage-taking, - still this bloody page of history is controversial.

While the Soviet soldiers bravely fought against the Wehrmacht, "civil" has suffered from the constant raids of bandits. At a time when almost the whole of the militia and the NKVD were involved in military actions, to obtain weapons and get away with it much easier. In this difficult for the country time, the audacity of bandits just didn't know boundaries. In 1941 marked an unprecedented increase in crime, began to form the group, composed of deserters, draft Dodgers and cowards, afraid to defend the honor of their homeland.

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.

Nikita Khrushchev became famous as a leader, prone to extravagant actions: this well-known trick with the Shoe, and the desire of all corn planted, and the so-called second dispossession, forced the peasants to abandon farmlands, and insults to the avant-garde artists. But not everyone knows that among the projects of the Nikita Khrushchev was to undo the shoulder straps in the army.