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Before the war the shelves of Soviet stores not bursting from the abundance of goods. At the very least supplied with food the population of large cities, primarily Moscow and Leningrad. The situation in the province was worse, and in rural areas – and at no. With the outbreak of war immediately began to supply disruptions. However, it was goods that were bought at the first opportunity, and completely uncontrolled. In the first place — salt, matches and soap.

In the summer of 1941 the red Army strove by all means to stop the rollback of troops to Moscow. After 2 months after Hitler's attack was an order No. 270, also known as "the order about malicious deserters" is one of the most violent and controversial from the legal point of view documents of the great Patriotic war.

During the great Patriotic war for our country, fought not only men but also women. Sometimes they became for the Nazis so dangerous that some of them started solo hunting.

28 Dec 1925 became of Sergei Yesenin. For almost a century the care of the poet is haunted by the historians, researchers and fans of his work.

Western experts agree that the Soviet Union did an excellent weapon. This is not surprising. In the Soviet Union the defence industry has spent a lot of money in this area, there were a lot of scientific institutions and tens of thousands of people. Some specimens were so successful that other countries did everything possible to "borrow".